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Hollywood Knights

Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia

S Aronstein author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:13th Oct '05

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SUSAN ARONSTEIN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.

Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s.Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to the problems of a troubled present, a solution that will ensure prosperity in the homeland and a globally beneficial American authority abroad.

ISBN: 9781403966490

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 500g

264 pages

2005 ed.