[Commlist] New book: American Presidents and Oliver Stone

Intellect is pleased to announce that /*American Presidents and Oliver 
Stone: Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between History and Cinema 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/american-presidents-and-oliver-stone>*/, 
by Carl Freedman, is now available in ebook and paperback.

Perhaps no current filmmaker has made more provocative films about 
American history than Oliver Stone. In this book, Carl Freedman gives a 
detailed and nuanced account of the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, 
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush as fictionalized in Stone’s 
biographical films JFK, Nixon and W. Synthesizing film criticism with 
political and historical analysis, /American Presidents and Oliver 
Stone/ transcends the limitations of formalism and empiricism, 
reflecting on both Stone’s achievements as a filmmaker and American 
politics of the past sixty years.

Offering detailed historical perspectives alongside careful aesthetic 
criticism, Freedman explores how Stone uses melodrama, tragedy and farce 
to transform politics into national mythology. Wide-ranging, accessible 
and highly original, /American Presidents and Oliver Stone/ is sure to 
engage anyone interested in the intersection of American politics and 
cinema.


*_Table of Contents_*

*Introduction*

*I. KENNEDY: ICON*
*- *To Assassinate a Movie
*- *JFK: American Melbourne
*- *Precursor-Texts: Rashomon and Citizen Kane
*- *JFK: Conspiracy
*- *JFK: Father-Leader
*- *JFK: Son-Avenger

*II. NIXON: TRAGIC HERO-VILLAIN*
*- *From Kennedy to Nixon
*- *From Melodrama to Tragedy
*- *From JFK to Nixon
*- *Nixon: Personal Tragedy
*- *Nixon: National Tragedy
*- *Nixon: American Tragedy
*- *Conclusion

*III. BUSH: (UN)FORTUNATE SON*
*- *From Tragedy to Farce
*- *W.: The Man
*- *W.: The War

*Finale*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/american-presidents-and-oliver-stone 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/american-presidents-and-oliver-stone>


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