Deconstructing Reaganism : An Analysis of American Fantasy Films ISBN: 9781443860772 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: History;
As in so many other areas of American society, the political legacy of Ronald Reagan had an imposing presence in many contemporary American films, particularly between 1980 and 2000. Six films, which collectively represent the spectrum of ReaganismOCOs most popular tropes, demonstrate quite compellingly that in celebrating nostalgically the blissful pleasantries of family stability and social order so essential to ReaganOCOs political philosophy, an unsettling and unsatisfying mythology has been ..."