The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Genre's Construction

With strict guidelines on methodology and time frame — films produced after September 2001, and a socio-semiotic theoretical framework — Betty Kaklamanidou unpacks the problematic terms and ideas that go along with defining a new genre. Kaklamanidou considers a different sub-genre per chapter, placing each group of films in their socio-historical context to reach conclusions about the production of political films in millennial Hollywood. In shifting the terms of the debate, The "Disguised"...