World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations Through Popular Culture by Sachleben, Mark A.

World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations Through Popular Culture

Increasingly resistant to lessons on international politics, society often turns to television and film to engage the...
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Author: Mark A. Sachleben
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World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations Through Popular Culture by Sachleben, Mark A.

World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations Through Popular Culture

BD$45.07

World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations Through Popular Culture

BD$45.07
Author: Mark A. Sachleben
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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) helped to raise and sustain skepticism about the Soviet Union. World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations through Popular Culture uses films and television shows like these as well as contemporary including 24, The Simpsons, South Park, and The Daily Show to guide readers to a deeper understanding of enduring issues in international politics. In this unique and insightful volume, author Mark Sachleben demonstrates that popular culture reflects societal beliefs about the world, and that the messages captured on television and film transcend time and place. Using films such as Secret Ballot (2001), Under the Bombs (2007), and Wall E (2008), he addresses topics such as international relations and diplomacy, the study of war, nuclear weapons, poverty, immigration and emigration, human rights, and genocide. An engaging read for students and for anyone with a general interest in politics and popular culture, World Politics on Screen succeeds in its argument by illuminating unexplored assumptions about international policy."

Author: Mark A. Sachleben
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 08/24/2018
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780813176208

About the Author

Mark Sachleben is professor of political science at Shippensburg University. He is the author of Human Rights Treaties: Considering Patterns of Participation, 1948--2000 and coauthor of Seeing the Bigger Picture: Understanding Politics through Film and Television.




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