How Public Relations Professionals are Portrayed On Film

• In Event: G.I.F.T.S. Session II

Abstract

The overall goal of this assignment is to ascertain whether film depictions of public relations professionals shape viewers’ perspectives of public relations professionals and the profession as a whole. The limited on-screen depiction of public relations professionals may reveal why so many in society view public relations professionals as immoral, inappropriate, and downright unethical. This assignment is appropriate to the communication discipline because it is geared toward an undergraduate-level public relations course.

Author

• Cheryl Ann Lambert, Boston University