World politics on screen : understanding international relations through popular culture

Sachleben, Mark 1965- (Author).

Summary: Increasingly resistant to lessons on international politics, society often turns to television and film to engage the subject. Numerous movies made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reflect political themes that were of concern within the popular cultures of their times. For example, Norman Jewison's The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) portrays the culture of suspicion between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, while several of Alfred Hitchcock's movies as well as the John Wayne film Big Jim McLain (1952) and John Milius's Red Dawn (1984)

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ISBN: 9780813143125 (epub)
ISBN: 081314311X
ISBN: 9780813143118
ISBN: 0813143136 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780813143132 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Modern World and Those Who Try to Explain It; 2. A Primer on IR (International Relations) Perspectives; 3. War Is Sometimes Unavoidable; 4. The Case against War; 5. A Primer on Nuclear Weapons; 6. The War to End Humanity?; 7. Intrigue, Espionage, and Nuclear Secrets; 8. Is International Cooperation Possible?; 9. Iranian Cinema; 10. Patterns of Consumption and Poverty; 11. Human Migration; 12. A Primer on Human Rights; 13. Human Rights and Modern World Politics; Conclusion: Messages and World Politics; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.