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Oliver Stone’s America

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“Dreaming the Myth Outward”

Oliver Stone’s America

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Oliver Stone’s America book

“Dreaming the Myth Outward”
BySusan Mackey-Kallis
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1996
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429300561
Pages 192
eBook ISBN 9780429300561
Subjects Social Sciences
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Mackey-Kallis, S. (1996). Oliver Stone’s America: “Dreaming the Myth Outward” (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429300561

ABSTRACT

This book represents an illustrated, critical analysis of filmmaker Oliver Stone and his works, placing him in the tradition of American political artists. Oliver Stone—polemicist, leftist, artist, and—surprisingly for politically conservative America—mainstream director—is one of the most controversial American filmmakers in Hollywood. His films i

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter One|26 pages

Stone’s Dilemma: A Platonist Seeking Postmodern “Truth,” or the Quandary of the Left-Wing Intellectual in Hollywood

chapter two|26 pages

Betrayal in the Garden and Death of the Dream

chapter three|32 pages

Descent into Hell: The Vietnam Nightmare

chapter four|30 pages

After the Fall: (Self-)Portraits of the Tortured Artist-Visionary

chapter five|26 pages

Meeting the Shadow and the Journey Home

chapter Six|8 pages

Final Thoughts

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