The Films of the Nineties The Decade of Spin [Paperback]

By breaking down classic films from the nineteen-nineties such as Forest Gump and Titanic, this book offers a reel-to-reel cultural analysis, chronicling the concept of 'spin' as a major sociopolitical persuasion strategy.Hollywood and History The New Historicist Films The Decade of Spin The Politics of Spin The American President Spin Out: The Gay Nineties Sex and the Nineties Neo-Spin Spinning into the Millenium

This book contains terrific lists of films collected under key thematic headings - history films, films about politics, about sex, about spin. As a dazzling representation of spin, Wag the Dog (1997), according to Palmer, may be the decade-defining film of the nineties. Bolstered by postmodern theory, the spin thesis is interesting, and descriptions of individual films are illuminating. - Choice

WILLIAM J. PALMER?is Professor of Literature and Film in the English Department at Perdue University, USA.