Significant points made by Michelle C. Pautz, in “Argo and Zero Dark Thirty: Film, government, and audiences”

  1. What, in your view, are three significant points made by Michelle C. Pautz, in “Argo and Zero Dark Thirty: Film, government, and audiences” (PS: Political Science and Politics, 48:1, 2015)? What, if anything, did this reading contribute to your understanding of politics and film?
  2. What, in your view, are three significant points made by Lila Kitaeff in “Three Kings: Neocolonial Arab representation” (Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 46, 2003)? Do you find Kitaeff’s argument persuasive? Why/why not?
  3. What, in your view, are three significant points made by Georg Lofflmann in “Hollywood, the Pentagon, and the cinematic production of national security” (Critical Studies on Security, 1:3, 2013)? What, if anything, did this reading contribute to your understanding of politics and film?