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Movies and television series are excellent tools for teaching
political science and international relations. Understanding how
stories in various film and television genres illustrate political
ideas can better assist students and fans understand and appreciate
the political subtext of these media products. This book will
examine five genres and their variants. The first is gangster
movies, focusing on American and other organized crime, which
reached its zenith in the films of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin
Scorsese. Second are political thriller and action movies and
television series. Superhero films and TV deal more with modern
characters who seek to serve society as they deal with personal
struggles and their individual identities. Fourth are war movies,
which tend to promote positive images of wars when wars are
perceived as successful, but can include antiwar messages when wars
turn badly. Fifth are Western movies, which fell out of favor in
the 1970s and 1980s, but have undergone a renaissance since the
1990s. Westerns can be taken as either political parables, or as
meditations on policing, anarchy, community organization and
informal leadership. These genres all offer escape, but can also
offer political lessons.
Broudy and Pollick critically examine the programs of four radio
pundits (Limbaugh, Schultz, Colmes and Hannity) and two TV pundits
(O'Reilly and Olbermann), comparatively assessing their
argumentative styles, call screening processes, use of 'teasers',
guest diversity (how ideologically balanced the guest list is), and
the ratio of time devoted to callers vs. host soliloquies. Authors
also fit the genre into an historical context, tracing its roots
back to Father Coughlin from the 1930s. In addition, the authors
examine how propagandistic each show is and how such propaganda
might affect civic (and civilized) participation, public discourse
and the perception of political issues. The writing style ranges
from scholarly to more conversational and cheeky (especially when
obviously fallacious reasoning appears in hosts' arguments).
Finally, the authors critically discuss the concept of American
Exceptionalism and how it underlies the premises of many of the
hosts.
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