Edwin Mah Film & Media Arts
media studies
Auteur Theory & Oliver Stone
The premise of this project is that five well-known Oliver Stone films are actually part of a single narrative about the seminal events of the 1960s and early 1970s. The clips from Born on the 4th of July, Heaven and Earth, JFK, Nixon, and Platoon included in this project help make Stone’s argument that the assassination of President Kennedy was likely the result [...]
An Analysis of The War Room (1993)
The War Room (1993) by D.A. Pennebaker documented the inner-workings of Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign. Led by James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, the campaign team fended off the constant attacks on Clinton’s character from President Bush’s campaign from the “war room,” a term given to the campaign’s headquarters. Because of their rapid responses [...]