{"product_id":"reelpolitik","title":"Reelpolitik","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe movies that document American history during the interwar years still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny sentimentality popular at the time, we feel attracted, despite our 1990s veneer of sophistication, to healthy portions of unadulterated American spirit. Americans resist encumbering themselves with political labels, Kelley asserts, content to remain simultaneously fragmented between elitism and populism, isolationism and interventionism even today, yet remain somehow united by a fundamental essence they can't quite define but readily recognize as the American can-do attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the unique vantage point of eight classic American movies—\u003ci\u003eMr. Smith Goes to Washington\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGabriel Over the White House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaily Bread\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fountainhead\u003c\/i\u003e—Kelley and her colleagues explore the political ideologies thrumming through the American psyche. The stock market crash and ensuing depression proved a defining experience. For the first time, the national psyche was sent careening toward alien political ideologies; the seductiveness of communism and fascism took hold in the wreckage wrought by the Depression. American foreign policy likewise fluctuated from the isolationist stance adopted after fighting the war to end all wars to an interventionist response to the intensifying pressure to vanquish communist and fascist bullies. Students, scholars, and the general public will find intriguing insights on a period of national catastrophe and triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54218786341208,"sku":"9780275960186","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780275960186__67c1e6fb5ba48_a22aaacb-4dd5-4d58-bfa0-726dd44f4afa.jpg?v=1741157799","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reelpolitik","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}