from this viewpoint, contemporary Hollywood cinema can be read as a contest of representation and a contested terrain that produces existing social struggles and transcode the political discourses of the era. I use the term trancode to describe how specific political discourses like Reaganism or liberalism are translated, or encode into media text.For example, Easy Rider(1963) and Woodstock(1970) trancode the discourses of the 1960s counterculture into cinematic texts in image,sound dialogue, scene,and narrative.Film like Red Dawn (1984) and Rambo (1984) transcode the conservative discourses of Reaganism (see Kellner and Ryan 1988),while Syriana(2005)transcode mistrust in the Bush-Cheney era of government, big oil corporation,and corporate power, and Michael Clayton transcodes fears of corporate corruption and wrong- doing