Images of Influence
本文提出将电影作为论文进行批判性审视的方法，分析《十二怒汉》和《十三天》如何展现人际影响的复杂性，挑战主流教材的简化描述。
Whereas films are widely used as instructional tools, applications tend to be under-theorized, limited to illustrating ideas and motivating students. Our perspective draws on narrative theory, organizational representation, and processual theory, to develop an approach to the critical interrogation of film as thesis. Film selection criteria are identified, and two films are considered: 12 Angry Men and Thirteen Days. These films advance a thesis concerning interpersonal influence and decision making. Research-based accounts of influence are decontextualized, dyadic, episodic, apolitical, and practical. These films depict interpersonal influence as a multi-layered phenomenon, shaped by contextual, temporal, processual, social, political and emotional factors. Rather than presenting a trivialized, sensationalized, glamorous account, these films demonstrate the complex integration of issues typically covered discretely by mainstream texts.