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Increasingly resistant to lessons on international politics, society often turns to television and film to engage the subject. Numerous movies made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reflect political themes that were of concern within the popular cultures of their times. For example, Norman Jewisons The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) portrays the culture of suspicion between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, while several of Alfred Hitchcocks movies as well as the John Wayne film Big Jim McLain (1952) and John Miliuss Red Dawn (1984) helped to raise and sustain skepticism about the Soviet Union. World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations through Popular Culture uses films and television shows like these as well as contemporary including 24, The Simpsons, South Park, and The Daily Show to guide readers to a deeper understanding of enduring issues in international politics. In this unique and insightful volume, author Mark Sachleben demonstrates that popular culture reflects societal beliefs about the world, and that the messages captured on television and film transcend time and place. Using films such as Secret Ballot (2001), Under the Bombs (2007), and WallE (2008), he addresses topics such as international relations and diplomacy, the study of war, nuclear weapons, poverty, immigration and emigration, human rights, and genocide. An engaging read for students and for anyone with a general interest in politics and popular culture, World Politics on Screen succeeds in its argument by illuminating unexplored assumptions about international policy.

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World Politics on Screen
WORLD POLITICS
ON SCREEN
Understanding
International Relations
through Popular Culture
MARK SACHLEBEN
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Copyright 2014 by The University Press of Kentucky
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth,
serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky,
Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College,
Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State
University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania
University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western
Kentucky University.
All rights reserved.
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ISBN: 978-0-8131-4311-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-8131-4312-5 (epub)
ISBN: 978-0-8131-4313-2 (pdf)
This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials.
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Manufactured in the United States of America.
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Member of the Association of American University Presses
For my father,
Charles Sachleben
CONTENTS
Introduction
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN FILM AND TELEVISION
It has become a clich to point out that we live in a world in which international events affect our lives. Yet when most people think of television and international politics, they naturally assume that the connection has something to do with the news. This book starts from the premise that television and film can actually give us a deeper understanding about world politics. It will not argue that film and television can replace reading and researchbut, by understanding how important political topics are covered in popular culture, we will have a better appreciation of how societies understand issues, problems, and potential solutions. To begin with, consider some important questions: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? Why should those of us interested in politics pay attention to popular culture? The answers can be complex and multifaceted. Popular culture is a reflection of the way society believes the world operates. As the name suggests, popular culture has broad appeal. This is not a culture that is available to only a few; it is widely available to many people. Although popular culture has existed in all societies and all times, the unprecedented power of film and television as media has meant that the dissemination of messages now transcend time and place. Films and other moving-image mediums have the ability to convey a great deal of information and emotion, often without words. Ideas and reactions can be transmitted with a glance or a smile. Film and television are powerful ways to transmit messages and ideas.
We live in a world in which the moving image is ubiquitous. The process of incorporating moving images into our popular culture began in the 1890s with the invention of motion pictures on filmstrips, and continued in the 1940s and 1950s with the mass production and acquisition of televisions by millions of people. Such images are constants in our lives today, with motion pictures being delivered to us by a plethora of electronic devices. While the method of delivering moving pictures to audiences continues to change, there is no doubt that the moving image will remain an importantand perhaps ever-increasingfacet of modern life.
If you stop and think about it, it is remarkable how much of our everyday lives are shaped by popular culture. Sometimes we build our schedule around accessing popular culture. Our adherence to our favorite television program or song is often an indication of who we are as a person. On a date, a question about popular culture is often a way to get to know another person (Whats your favorite band? Whats your favorite TV show?). Sometimes our pretensions might get the better of us and we might claim not to be impacted by popular culture, but even for such individuals it takes only a few seconds to realize how pervasive film and television are in our lives. Many people like to quote favorite scenes from movies in everyday languagewho doesnt know someone who says, Show me the money! (from Jerry Maguire, 1996) or Ill be back (The Terminator, 1984) in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice? The idea of an offer he cant refuse from The Godfather (1972) has become a verbal shortcut for an unpleasant task that must be done, or else severe consequences will ensue. On a deeper level the stories we tell each other describe who we are, who we want the world to think we are, and what we think the world looks like. Stories become metaphors for our lives.
In 2006 an online news organization announced that Americans know more about The Simpsons (the animated television family) than they do about the First Amendment. Indeed, a survey by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that more than half of Americans could name at least two members of the animated family, and 22 percent of Americans could name all five members of the family (Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie). On the other hand, only one in one thousand (one-tenth of 1 percent) of Americans could name the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition for redress of grievances).in the United States. Further, it is not as if there are there are no political messages contained in The Simpsons. That television program is replete with information that also serves the audience, at times even in education about First Amendment rights in the United States.
We could speculate that there are three possible relationships between popular culture and politics: (1) popular culture reflects politics; (2) popular culture shapes politics; and (3) there is an endogenous relationship between popular culture and politicsin effect that popular culture helps to inform and shape politics, and politics help to inform and shape popular culturea symbiotic relationship. Popular culture, or pop culture, can take many different forms, including art, mass media, popular novels, cooking, and clothingall of which are enjoyed by most people in a society. This book will focus primarily on film and television, with slightly more emphasis on film. As we begin to think about the relationship between film and television programs and politics, it is helpful to remember each of the three possible relationships. As you read this book, watch films, and discuss films and television programs with others, ask yourself: Is this an example of a film trying to shape political culture? Or is this a film that reflects political culture? Or does it do both?
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