Michael Moore : filmmaker, newsmaker, cultural icon /
Matthew H. Bernstein, editor.
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2010.
- 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Class, culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overviews. Introduction / Matthew H. Bernstein -- The left's biggest star : Michael Moore as commercial auteur / Sergio Rizzo -- Class, gender, race, and masculine masquerade in the documentaries of Michael Moore / Gaylyn Studlar -- Moore and the documentary tradition. Michael Moore and the aesthetics and politics of contemporary documentary film / Douglas Kellner -- "Everything Is personal" : Michael Moore and the documentary essay / Paul Arthur -- The major films. Documentary film and the power of interrogation : American dream and Roger & me / Miles Orvell -- Bowling for Columbine : a review / Christopher Sharrett and William Luhr -- Prelude to Moore : a comparison of rhetorical techniques in Frank Capra's Why we fight series and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 / Richard R. Ness -- Truth and rhetoric in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 / Charles Musser -- Dystopia now : Fahrenheit 9/11's Red pill / David Teztlaff -- Sicko movie review / Richard Porton -- Beyond the American multiplex : Moore in the media marketplace. Moore muckracking : the reinvention of TV newsmagazines in the age of spin and entertainment / Jeffrey P. Jones -- The British take on Moore / Richard Kilborn -- MoveOn, Michael Moore, and the summer of '04 : marketing online political activism / Cary Elza.
Moore, Michael, 1954 Apr. 23- --Criticism and interpretation.
Motion picture producers and directors--Political activity--United States. Documentary films--Political aspects--History and criticism. Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.