Ch. 16 - Reaganite Cinema

Reaganite Cinema is film that has rejuvenation in it, or a new start. As President Reagan campaign theme was that he was going to renew national identity and start with a new beginning. The theme of rejuvenation and starting over was found in many different types of movies during the 80’s. During the 1980’s when Reaganite Cinema took place after his recovery of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him. Reagan’s recovery was a symbolic enactment of the things that would come. In the movies they did the same thing. Like in movies series Back to the Future where traveling back in time, and then return with a new spiritual attitude. And in the movie Field of Dreams where the past comes to the future and old famous baseball players come to play on a field that Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) builds in his corn field. The gathering of all these baseball legends in his present time renews the spirits of the people in the movie. The Reaganite Cinema period was about renewing spirits and time travel was one of the way that they showed how thing were in the past and how they can be better.