{"product_id":"make-my-day-movie-culture-in-the-age-of-reagan-9781595580061","title":"Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's \u003cem\u003eMake My Day\u003c\/em\u003e is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like \u003cem\u003eEarthquake\u003c\/em\u003e ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like \u003cem\u003eRocky\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/em\u003e, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought such movie events as \u003cem\u003eJaws\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGhostbusters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlue Velvet\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBack to the Future\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn exploration of the synergy between American politics and popular culture, \u003cem\u003eMake My Day\u003c\/em\u003e is the concluding volume of Hoberman's \u003cem\u003eFound Illusions\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy; the first volume, \u003cem\u003eThe Dream Life\u003c\/em\u003e, was described by \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e's David Edelstein as \"one of the most vital cultural histories I've ever read\"; \u003cem\u003eFilm Comment\u003c\/em\u003e called the second, \u003cem\u003eAn Army of Phantoms\u003c\/em\u003e, \"utterly compulsive reading.\" Reagan, a supporting player in Hoberman's previous volumes, here takes center stage as the peer of Indiana Jones and John Rambo, the embodiment of a Hollywood that, even then, no longer existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Hoberman's\u003c\/b\u003e books include \u003cem\u003eThe Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAn Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eMake My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan\u003c\/em\u003e (all from The New Press). He has written for \u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. For over thirty years, he was a film critic for the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515901317394,"sku":"9781595580061","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a15c3b1f-70d8-4b76-b6ff-7bcb12b5f54d.jpg?v=1731014997","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/make-my-day-movie-culture-in-the-age-of-reagan-9781595580061","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}