Films Depicting National Interests & Human Interests

This tension is depicted directly in American society both Citizen Cohn (Frank Pierson, 1992) and The Front (Martin Ritt, 1976) and directly in terms of Irish society in Michael Collins. In each of these films, the individual is faced with decisions about his behavior because of the demands placed upon him by national themes and interests, and the two clash when the government attempts to assert a national interest at the expense of individual rights. Citizen Cohn and The Front both deal with the McCarthy era in the 1950s when fears of possible Communist infiltration caused the government and other entities to assert national interests over individual rights in a number of ways related to employment in particular. Any hint that an individual had communist leanings or had ever had any involvement with Communism was sufficient to remove him or her form their job. The Front deals with this issue as it related specifically to Hollywood and the television and film industries and to ways in which writers in p

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