Posted: December 31st, 2020

Comparative Movie Reviews, film Assignment: I need help writing a research paper.

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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

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