These films. Swing Vote (2008), The Queen (2006) Rules of Engagement (2000) The Quiet American (2002) and Jarhead (2005) clearly support this hypothesis and build on the idea that art reflects life and life reflects art.
Resources
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Giglio, E. (2005) Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Klenotic, J. (2007) Chapter 5 "Staying in the Moment: Hollywood,
Van Zoonen, L. (2004) Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge London UK: Littlefield Publishing Group.
Zallard, J. (November 12-13, 1999) Perversities in the Ideal of the Informed Citizenry, Paper presented at conference on "The Transformation of Civic Life" Middle Tennessee State University. http://frank.mtsu.edu/~seig/paper_j_zaller.html
