Politics in Cinema : Understanding, Analyzing and Application

For mainstream Political Science, 'popular culture' is still no longer considered worthy of serious investigation. Similarly, the concept of the use of films as a pedagogical device has remained on the margins. Nevertheless, movies may be a treasured way of teaching college college students about politics and international politics especially. This paper identifies four wonderful ways of using movies as a teaching tool: the first approach uses movie to portray historical events along with the Cold War, and the second makes use of movie to debate unique problems in worldwide politics which includes terrorism or genocide.