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Question Description
Comparative Movie Reviews:
Each student should prepare a 7-10 page paper that compares and contrasts at least two older movies from the list below or two newer movies that you would like to analyze that seems to fit one of the categories. No more than 1 movie should be selected from each category. At a minimum the paper should address the following questions:
- What are the main plots of each of the movies reviewed?
- What images of government and governmental employees are presented in each of the films, and what do such images imply about the conduct of public administration?
- If the images presented in each of the films reviewed represent a true depiction of reality, what does the world/society/culture look like, and what is the role of government and public administrators in such a world/society/culture?
- What does a comparison of the worldviews presented in each of the films reviewed reveal about the relation of cinema to government and society?
| CATEGORY: | FILMS: |
| Administrators as Heroes | A Thousand Heroes
Apollo 13 Daylight Dirty Harry The Postman |
| Administrators as Military Figures/Warriors | Action in the North Atlantic
Dr. Strangelove Dune Fat man and Little Boy The Hunt for Red October Independence Day Star Wars Trilogy Stargate Tora Tora Tora |
| Administrators/Political Figures as Mythological Figures | Citizen Kane
High Noon The Lost Horizon One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Postman Remains of the Day Star Wars Trilogy |
| Citizens Wronged By Government | Amistad
Conspiracy Theory The Crucible Guilty By Suspicion The House on Carroll Street |
| City Administration/Politics | City Hall
Dark City Logan’s Run Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Metropolis |
| Criminal Justice | Copland
High Noon L.A. Confidential Logan’s Run U.S. Marshalls The X-Files |
| Disgruntled/Wronged Public Employees | Day Light
Dirty Harry High Noon Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| Fictional Depiction of Real Events | Appollo 13
Cromwell Fat man and Little Boy JFK Nixon Revolution Truman |
| Film as an Ideological Tool | Across the North Atlantic
American Madness The Birth of a Nation The Grapes of Wrath Metropolis Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| Government Conspiracy | Chain Reaction
Conspiracy Theory Copland The House on Carroll Street L.A. Confidential Wag the Dog The X-Files |
| Government Faces Aliens From Outer Space | Close Encounters of a Third Kind
Coneheads Contact Independence Day Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Mars Attacks Men In Black Stargate |
| Government Faces Disaster | A Thousand Heroes
Appollo 13 Armageddon Daylight Deep Impact Godzilla Volcano |
| Government Faces Technology and Man-Machine Systems Gone Awry | Godzilla
Wargames Mimic Dr. Strangelove |
| Government at War | Action in the North Atlantic
Across the Pacific The Hunt For Red October Midway Sink the Bizmark Tora Tora Tora Why We Fight (1 of the series) 30 Seconds Over Tokyo |
| Government at Work | 12 Angry Men
Brazil Beetlejuice Men in Black One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
| Political Figures as Administrators | City Hall
Truman Nixon Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
