{"id":191,"date":"2016-06-30T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/06\/30\/media-services-at-the-movies-the-purge-election-year\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:49:00","slug":"media-services-at-the-movies-the-purge-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/06\/30\/media-services-at-the-movies-the-purge-election-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Services at the Movies: The Purge: Election Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n

To be honest, we dismissed The Purge<\/i> at first as more thinly plotted horror about people breaking into your house. Maybe it was. By its newest, third installment, the series has slowly morphed into political satire. The seeds were always there \u2013 the first movie teases that the annual crime spree started as socioeconomic violence \u2013 but reviews for The Purge: Election Year<\/i> say the movie has its sights on bigger targets this time.<\/p>\n

Using dystopian scenarios to comment on modern society has been a staple of fiction for a long time (see: 1984<\/i>), but film in particular loves the genre. You can see similarities everywhere from The Hunger Games<\/i> and Idiocracy<\/i> to the ultra-violent movies of Paul Verhoeven. Is it fair to call the class warfare of The Purge an update to The Running Man<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n

So if you liked where the newest Purge<\/i> is heading, consider watching some of these other movies where a nightmarish future has more in common with the present than you’d expect.<\/p>\n

Gattaca \u2013 HU DVD 1949<\/a>
A Scanner Darkly \u2013 HU DVD 2416<\/a> 
Idiocracy \u2013 HU DVD 2494<\/a>
Children of Men \u2013 HU DVD 2631<\/a>
Soylent Green \u2013 HU DVD 5731<\/a>
District 9 \u2013 HU DVD 6686<\/a>
<\/a>RoboCop \u2013 DVD 8164<\/a>
<\/a>They Live \u2013 HU DVD 9020<\/a>
Logan’s Run \u2013 HU DVD 11104<\/a>
Silent Running \u2013 HU DVD 11609<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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