Evolution of the U.S. President´s Image in the Cinema of Apocalyptic Stereotypes. From Bill Clinton to Barack Obama
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The Cinema of apocalyptic landscape produced by Hollywood transcodes many features of the socio-political context marked by the 9/11 attacks. Specifically, those films have influenced the representation of one of the national icons in the US: the President himself. This paper explores the connection between the filmic portrait of the presidential institution, on the one hand, and the evolution in the approval rating to the jobs of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on the other. The last two decades are the framework of this research, and it seeks to identify the contributions of a particular cinematographic genre to the critical depiction of this political figure.Downloads
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