I took on my Communications major originally for the PR aspect because I originally had aspiration to be a professional political speech writer, like Sam or Toby on The West Wing. When I started taking classes, however, I realized I enjoyed the theory aspect a lot more. One of my favorite classes is a hybrid between two majors: Media and Politics. My professor wrote this book as nostalgia as a tool for political campaigns. His book served as the inspiration for the final paper in his class about nostalgia about real life presidents as it was used on The West Wing, but it also inspired my senior honors thesis.
The goal of my thesis is to examine the image of the presidency in film and television. Primarily, if you haven't figured this out, I will focus on The West Wing and Aaron Sorkin's other work, The American President. I will also be looking at Commander in Chief, 24, Dave, and Air Force One.
This a is a huge project-it comes out to a 50 page paper and an oral presentation. So I'm dividing up the work really slyly. In my History of TV and Radio class, I am writing about the images of the president on tv, and in my film class I am writing about the presidency in film. My "research" partially consists of watching episodes of all these tv shows and movies. I have the coolest major. How many majors get to watch tv to write a paper? It's so much fun. Plus, the COm majors are so much more relaxed than Poli Sci majors that it's just fun being in class with them.
Besides, I have the most awesome adviser in the world. What could be better?
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Holy crap that sounds awesome.
I love, love, love The American President. It is pretty much the reason I moved to Washington. Is that a dumb reason???
Hey, one thing you can examine is how on tv the President just picks up the phone and stuff happens. It very rarely happens that way in reality. There are layers of people nearly all decisions need to go through and workers who must be engaged. I think it gives the public a false sense of how things happen. And then you get all of America pissed off because Congress can't pass a budget. Not that I'm bitter or anything. :)
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