Fascism and Millennial American Cinema

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This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as <i>American History X</i>, <i>Stir of Echoes</i> and <i>The Believer</i>), star and/or <i>auteur</i> vehicles (such as <i>The Siege</i>, <i>Fight Club</i> and <i>American Beauty</i>), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as <i>Starship Troopers</i>, <i>Minority Report</i>, the <i>Matrix</i> and <i>X-Men</i> trilogies and the <i>Star Wars</i> prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema. <p></p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Leighton Grist</b> is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on film, including work on classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema, film theory and genre. He is the author of <i>The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context</i> (2000) and <i>The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99: Authorship and Context II</i> (2013).<p></p>

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