Hard Bodies

Autorentext

Susan Jeffords

Klappentext

Hard Bodies looks at some of the most popular films of the Reagan era and examines how the characters, themes, and stories presented in them often helped to reinforce and disseminate the policies, programs, and beliefs of the 'Reagan Revolution.'

Zusammenfassung
Through her illuminating and detailed analyses of both the Reagan presidency and many blockbuster movies, Susan Jeffords provides a scenario within which the successes of the New Right and the Reagan presidency can begin to be understood: she both encourages an understanding of how this complicity functioned and provides a framework within which to respond to the New Right's methods and arguments.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

1. Life as a Man in the Reagan Revolution
2. Hard Bodies: The Reagan Heroes
3. Fathers and Sons: Continuity and Revolution in the Reagan Years
4. The Bush Style
5. The Movies Are Looking for a Few Good White Men
6. Terminal Masculinity: Men in the Early 1990s
7. Masculinity and the Reagan Legacy
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index