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Michael Coyne
Michael Coyne, whose pictures of Iran published in National Geographic helped show the world the human face of the country after the Islamic revolution. His other pictures featured in this book, include those from Central Australia, Dili, Rwanda and Indonesia.
Michael Coyne
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Hollywood Goes to Washington
Fantasy and politics are familiar dancing partners that rarely separate, even in the face of post–Election Day realities. But Hollywood has a tradition of punching holes in the fairy tales of electoral promises with films that meditate on what could have been and should have been. With Hollywood Goes to Washington,Michael Coyne investigates how the American political film unravels the labyrinthine entanglements of politics and the psyche of the American electorate in order to reveal brutal truths about the state of our democracy. From conspiracy dramas such as The Manchurian Candidate to satires like Wag the Dog, Hollywood Goes to Washington argues that political films in American cinema h...
The Crowded Prairie
Focuses on a group of popular, critically acclaimed westerns, examining their interaction with US society, culture and ideology from the end of the Depression to the Bicentennial in 1976. While exploring their depictions of such issues as intervention in World War II, miscegenation, generational discord, ethnic ascendance, McCarthyism, civil rights, Vietnam, and Watergate, the author shows how the genre veered from sagas of national achievement to bleak visions of life in the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Village
This book is about factors influencing changes and leading to the demise of rural life world-wide, at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
