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Great scenes from political movies (No1) How To Get Ahead in Advertising
This new occasional column is meant to be separate from my ‘Great Political Movies’ series, as it recently occurred to me that there are lots of political films that I wouldn’t include in the former...
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Great political movies (No14) Good night, and good luck
Whenever I want to show my students what good journalism looks like I always recommend that they watch Good night, and good luck. It dramatizes the showdown between Ed Murrow, legendary newsman and...
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Political Advertising (No2) ‘I like Ike’
Political advertising has really changed the landscape of American politics in recent years, and not necessarily for the better. Today television is dominated by a thousand different attack ads as...
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Great Political Movies (No16) The Battle of Algiers
It’s long been accepted that history is written by the winners. However in reality, more often than not, the film version of events is the only one people really pay attention to, and that is dictated...
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Great political documentaries (No4) Inside Job
As someone once said, “We laugh that we may not cry”. I certainly got that feeling when watching the documentary Inside Job. I saw it in a reasonably full cinema and in some places people were...
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Great political poems (No5) The Silesian Weavers
Today Heinrich Heine is probably best known for his prediction, “Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings”. Personally I’ve always preferred his slightly more lighthearted...
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Political Computer Games (No3) Deus Ex
One of the biggest trends of the 1990s was the boom in conspiracy theories. Fuelled in part by the success of the X-Files on TV and the growth of the world-wide web, people began to become obsessed...
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Great political TV series (No5) Spiral (Engrenages)
You can usually find out a lot about the politics of a society by looking at what it’s scared of. In my experience one of the best places to observe this is by watching the cop shows it produces....
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Great political movies (No23) Nixon
“When people look at you they see what they want to be, when they look at me they see what they are”. As a one-liner it’s hard to beat and pretty much sums up the appeal of the whole movie for …...
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Political Computer Games (No4) Tropico
One of the great things about computer games is that you get to do things that you’d never be able to experience in real life. In the case of Tropico, this means being the leader of a small Caribbean...
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