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“Let it turn to something else”: Conservative Ideology and the Reshaping of American Masculinity in Red Dawn from 1984 to 2012

Growing up and developing my own sense of identity through the products of popular culture in the Reagan era, I must admit that Red Dawn (1984) played an important role not only in defining the imaginative landscape of my six year old self, but also, I should think, in helping define and in producing my […]

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Posted in Film, Tangents Tagged Communism, Hollywood, Marxism, film, Obama, race, Red Dawn (2012), whiteness, Red Dawn (1984), Cold War, Glenn Beck, Reagan, Conservatism, Rambo, remakes, paranoid conservative fringe, cultural studies, masculinity, gender, fatherhood, politics

What’s in a pin? Hollywood Revisions and the Ideological Power of The Hunger Games

Any film adaptation of a novel, even a popular and already cinematic novel like Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, requires amendments, omissions, and alterations in the shift from page to screen.  One major alteration in Gary Ross’ recent film adaptation created a stir with adoring fans even before the film’s opening day.  The famous mockingjay […]

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Posted in Tangents Tagged Hunger Games, Ideology, Hollywood, film, comparative analysis

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