RoboCop (tangentially) Barton Fink<--must see for this topic Sullivan's Travels The Wizard of Speed and Time<--must see for this topic An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Bowfinger Ed Wood (the Screen Classics guy) Last Action Hero Hollywood Boulevard Movie Movie The Player<--must see for this topic Wag the Dog<--must see for this topic I haven't seen all these, so I'm not certain. It's also been to long since I've seen Last Action Hero to remember if the Charles Dance character is what you're looking for. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrejevic, Mark" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: media mogul villains > 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