@ USA members

[Lakie]

Help me out here, just chosen my major assignment question for American Popular Culture, question specifically is

Political Scandals, political assassinations, and political crisis have long been a part of American Popular Culture. Consider a major political scandal, political assassinatin, or political crisis in terms of popular portrayal (through film or literature) and the actual history. Be sure to discuss not only the portrayals and real events, but also the underlying values expressed in these portryals. [sic]

That said, id like to do something that isnt that commonly known in depth about, to put it bluntly, they tend to take your word for things more if they dont know about it themselves, so that rules out the Lewinski Scandal, JFK assassination, watergate, cuban missile crisis, 9/11 etc etc

So im trying to think of some lesser known political crisis, scandals and the like that have been portayed in the popular portrayal in film or literature, any ideas?

The thought crossed my mind about doing the black hawk down incident, contreverisal to go into somalia in the first place, the subsequant incident, the portryal by Mark Bowden in the book, the complete disregard for historical accuracy in the movie and the subsequant game series......

[Rampage.]

the first thing that crossed my mind was black hawk down, i would recommend that

[the þrox™]

XYZ Scandal

[DevilDog#1]

1. Iran Contra Affair

2. Enron Scandal

3. Jack Abrahamoff Scandal

4. Helibertin Scandal

5. Sea Ports, near scandal


Let me know if you need more.

[Lakie]

need something that been portrayed in the 'popular culture' preferabely movies but things like tv shows, books since the paper isnt on the event itself but on the portryal of it in popular culture..

But keep the ideas coming!

[Jeff]

I think there is a movie out on the Enron scandal.

[DevilDog#1]

Check out the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" Very interesting

[BOne]

there was a made for television movie about the fist attack on the twin towers
and its relevance to the second more fatal attack ... how the CIA basically knew
about it but drug there feet

[the þrox™]

Cuban Missile Crisis

Movie: 13 days later

[DevilDog#1]

"Men who killed Kennedy" Documentry on JJFK assassination.

[Matt]

Originally posted by the þrox™
Cuban Missile Crisis

Movie: 13 days later

oooo that was a good one

[JonM]

I think ur best bet is BHD seeings how what u have listed is pretty much all i can think of lol.

[milk]

colombine,

bowling for colombine

you need to see that moit, its the funniest thing in my oppinion, michael moore is my favorite director just because of that movie

[Lakie]

Yeah ive seen it, and we have to watch it for Post 911 Popular Culture later on in the topic however gun control or lack thereof isnt really a political crisis as such, well not for the subject purposes anyway...

[milk]

aww i thought it wasnt but i liked the movie