Make My Day by J. Hoberman (Hardcover First Edition)

Published by The New Press, 2019
Sewn bound hardcover
First Edition
396 pages
9.5x6.5 inches

Near Fine book and dust jacket. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

“Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.”―Rolling Stone

Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman’s masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era. The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it Hoberman chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond. Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought such movie events as Jaws, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Blue Velvet, and Back to the Future, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War.