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President Hanks (Kindle Single) Reviews
President Hanks (Kindle Single)
This essay looks at the career of Tom Hanks, and the way in which his core belief in American institutions—from the military, to business, to schools, among others—makes him the heir of Abraham Lincoln and our imagined ideal of a society that works. Over the course of his thirty-year career, Hanks’s choices as an actor add up to a coherent and compelling vision of U.S. history. That vision is all the more striking because it came into focus amid the complex and often conflicting agendas of filmmaking.”For better or for worse, the box office has always functioned as a kind of voting booth, one rife with corruption, but one with a tattered validity in capturing common sentiment.” It’s a meta-statement about American cinema worthy of Pauline Kael, but historian Jim Cullen makes this claim in the service of a much more specific agenda. Tom Hanks’s body of work, he insists, culminates in a persuasive oeuvre that favors cultural institutions–over against other sources of American strength such as, say, rugged individualism–as the ultimate bastion of cultural redemption. From Bosom Buddies to Larry Crowne, Cullen argues, Hanks is a company man, though “the company” may be the government, Church, Army, or business as Hanks moves from Splash to Big to Gump to Toy Story and beyond. In this compelling, page-turning critique, Hanks is, in the end, “da man.” –Jason Kirk
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