{"product_id":"movies-as-politics-9780520206151","title":"Movies as Politics","description":"In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society. Readers will find revealing examinations of, for example, racial stereotyping in the debates surrounding \u003ci\u003eDo the Right Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, key films from Africa, China, Japan, and Taiwan, Hollywood musicals and French serials, and the cultural amnesia accompanying cinematic treatments of the Russian Revolution, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. From \u003ci\u003eSchindler's List, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Piano\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAce Ventura: Pet Detective\u003c\/i\u003e to the maverick careers of Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Nicholas Ray, Chantal Akerman, Todd Haynes, and Andrei Tarkovsky, Rosenbaum offers a polemically pointed survey that makes clear the high stakes involved in every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Rosenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e is film critic at the \u003ci\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMoving Places\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003ePlacing Movies\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), both published by California, editor of \u003ci\u003eThis is Orson Welles\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324884095250,"sku":"9780520206151","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2f4a504-24be-4f15-a231-43212984094a.jpg?v=1727677551","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/movies-as-politics-9780520206151","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}