Shooting the President: A Critical Study of the Films JFK and Death of a President

This essay takes a look at how films can made to alter the way people think about certain subjects. In this instance it compares two films about the assassination of the President of the United States. One is JFK, a depiction of the true events of John F. Kennedy’s assassination which is directed and written for the screen by Oliver Stone and the other is Death of a President, a fictional depiction of the assassination of George W. Bush, written and directed by Gabriel Range. I will study the different styles of the films, how they portray the assassination plots differently and how it affected society and why it did the way it did. First it will go briefly over the presidents’ careers and what stood out during their presidency. The next chapter will be about the films themselves, how they are written, how they portray the presidents and brief synopses of the films. It will also briefly introduce the directors and how the films were received by the media and the public. The next chapter will go into the assassinations in detail and the similarities between the two films and it will also focus on the actions of the Vice Presidents in the films.

Author dc:creator

• Pétur Sæmundsen 1987-

Contributors dc:contributor

• Háskóli Íslands

• Enska
• Death of a president (kvikmynd)
• JFK (kvikmynd)
• Kvikmyndagreining

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1946/15008

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:skemman.is:1946/15008