Mark, I think "The Max Headroom Show" (briefly on TV in the 80's) fits your criteria rather well. Also, the Cronenberg film "Videodrome" has a media baron as the, well, human villain anyway. And doesn't one of the more recent Bond films ("Tomorrow Never Dies" maybe?) feature a Ted Turner-type as the one plotting world domination...? - Greg Oguss USC School of Cinema-TV At 7:19 PM 2/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi -- >for a class I'm teaching, I'm trying to come up with a list of movies that >have as their villains corrupt/monopolistic media moguls (who work in any >medium: film, TV, print, etc.). Bankers and the oil industry gets nailed all >the time, but I know there are movies out there in which the evildoers are >media types: I'm just having a hard time coming up with them. I'm interested >in the way in which the media commodify their own self-critique. >Thanks for your thoughts. > >---- >To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L >in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu