American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy: The Fragmented Kaleidoscope (Hardcover, 2020)

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Rehabilitations of idealism - action, satire and the late 1990s.- Chapter 2: Unanticipated synergy - lost innocence in early 2000s war cinema.- Chapter 3: ‘The thaw’ - the 2004 election and questions of cultural diplomacy.- Chapter 4: Imperial overstretch and the nihilistic frontier - Western political allegory in the late 2000s.- Chapter 5: Apex of allegory - Blockbuster responses to the end of the Bush era.- Chapter 6 (concluding chapter): Forever fragmented - Obama to Trump and the new identitarianism of IR dichotomies.