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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events. Stephen Prince discusses Hollywood film productions of the 1980s in terms of salient political issues of the period, including anxieties about declining U.S. military power, the wars in Central America and the prospects for U.S. intervention, the legacy of the Vietnam War, and urban d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index

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About the Series; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Decade of Political Representation; 1 Hollywood, Politics, and Media Study; 2 Brave Homelands and Evil Empires; 3 The Fires of Rebellion; 4 Hearts and Minds; 5 Future Imperfect; Afterword: The Place of Politics in Hollywood Films; Bibliography; Index

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