Re. looking for interesting film titles that explore issues involving the mass media and mass media representations (_Network_, _Videodrome_, _Broadcast News_, and _Bamboozled_ Being There - a classic on this theme but, I find my students don't like it as much as I do The Icicle Thief - clever and humorous commentary on the commercialisation of television, TV as distribution outlet for film, filmmakers as pure artists (nobody has seen it but students love it) The longer list developed for a course on TV & News (a few years ago now) To Die For (Van Sant, 1995) Up Close and Personal (Avnet, 1996) Broadcast News (Brooks, 1987) Icicle Thief (Nichetti, 1990) Natural Born Killers (Stone, 1994) The Killing Fields (Joffe, 1984) Under Fire (Spottiswoode, 1983) The Mean Season (Borsos, 1985) Network (Lumet, 1976) Special Bulletin (Zwick, 1983 Made for TV Movie) Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983) A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957) The Twonky (Oboler, 1953) The Cable Guy (1996, Stiller) Being There (Ashby, 1979) Quiz Show (Redford, 1994) Karen Orr Vered, PhD Lecturer & Director of Studies Screen Studies Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 South Australia voice 61 8 8201 3198 fax 61 8 8201 3635 [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html