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Article: Allegorical figurations and the political didactic in Bulworth.(Critical Essay)
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- CineAction
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- January 1, 2005
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Warren Beatty's Bulworth is a political film in a long line of recent popular political films that have come out of Hollywood, films such as Dave (Ivan Reitman, 1993), The American President (Rob Reiner, 1995), Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995), The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997), Primary Colors (Mike Nichols, 1998) and Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000). These films feign political commentary but often something more banal (romance, biography, suspense) materializes. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. deftly articulates this sentiment when he says that "there are Hollywood films about politics and there are Hollywood films about love affairs, but the former are hardly more ...
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