this is likely the beginning of a mini-deluge of titles and lists, but here're my quick contributions: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, dir.)-- the media baron as megalomaniac Network (Sidney Lumet, dir.)-- Faye Dunaway's producer character as a cold and manipulative opportunist willing and eager to cash in on the psychological unraveling of her lead news anchor Bamboozled (Spike Lee, dir.) -- television producers who turn to neo-minstrel programming, selling out the black race for superior profits. For a documentary approach, see the relatively new release from the Media Education Foundation called "Money for Nothing" (Kembrew McLeod, dir.); it details the inner logic and profit-driven machinations of the corporate recording industry and the manner in which it places culture itself at risk. It's narrated by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and features such notable as Robert McChesney, Reebe Garofalo, Dave Marsh, Chuck D, Michael Franti, and Ani Difranco weighing in on the corporate production of music media. Murray Forman Department of Communication Studies Northeastern University ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu