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Article: International Relations on Film.(Review)
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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International Relations on Film. By Robert W. Gregg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1998. 310p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper.
Robert Gregg makes it clear that popular culture has contributed more than Stanley Kubrick's maniacal Dr. Strangelove to our understanding of the world. According to Gregg, movies dramatize the people and events that mark the practice of world politics in ways that often challenge conventional wisdom about international relations, and they almost always provoke rousing discussion. His novel text emphasizes these points by reviewing 150 feature films in terms of contemporary theories of international relations and the evolution of the state ...