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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.
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