Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2026

Stripes at 45: A Patriotic Movie

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    Many posts have discussed patriotism and American exceptionalism . Stripes premiered 45 years ago today.  Two years ago, Rich Cohen...
Monday, February 5, 2024

The CIA and Hollywood

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Candace Owens: “I am a big believer that Hollywood was created by the CIA” pic.twitter.com/y0cbhHPLoc — Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Ke Huy Quan

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Previous posts have noted how much Vietnamese refugee s have contributed to the United States . Ke Huy Quan's  acceptance speech  for b...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Slavery and GWTW

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 At The Ankler, historian David Vincent Kimel writes about deleted scenes in the script of GoneWith the Wind . Remarkably, much of the exci...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

De Facto Chinese Censorship of US Films

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian at Axios : China's box office is projected to soon surpass the U.S. as the largest film market in the world....
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Interest Group Notes

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Judy Kurtz at The Hill : President Trump may or may not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner this year,...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Using Pop Culture to Counter Russian Disinformation

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Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Jaffe at WP  report on Russian disinformation in 2016 . Richard Stengel, the undersecretary for publi...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Ronald Reagan in a Movie Against North Korea

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In light of cyberhacking and threats that apparently come from North Korea , along with distributor reluctance, Sony Pictures has shelved Th...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Hollywood, Education Reform, and a State Election

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In our textbook, we mention the political role of the entertainment medi a, the politics of education reform , and the significance of st...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Affordable Care Act Update

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Gallup reports: Americans are more negative than positive about the healthcare law's future impact on their family and on the U.S. ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Reid, Django, and Movie Violence

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Several weeks after warning against movie violence, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today spoke approvingly of Django Unchained, which o...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Oscars and Political Money

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Previous posts have discussed the political leanings of the entertainment industry.  The Center for Responsive Politics reports on the co...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

DC Meets Hollywood

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The Los Angeles Times reports on the link between Hollywood and Washington, in light of the recent spate of films dealing with politics ( ...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Celebrities and Policy Advocacy

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As we note in the textbook, Hollywood figures often use their celebrity to draw attention to policy causes.  The latest example is Bradle...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The World, the United States, and China

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The Pew Research Center reports on the   2012 Pew Global Attitudes Survey: Majorities or pluralities in 12 countries express a favorable o...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Celebrity Arrests

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Our chapters on civil rights and interest groups discuss protest as a political tactic.  Protest sometimes involves arrest as a result of...
Saturday, October 8, 2011

Politics and the Box Office

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The movies are a political medium . Sometimes Hollywood figures also make political statements on their own time, and apparently there is ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Hollywood and Political Money

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The president is coming to the Hollywood area to raise money. As the Center for Responsive Politics reports , the venue makes sense: A Demo...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Religion-Friendly

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A new Pew poll has data on how "religion-friendly" Americans regard various individuals and institutions: More Americans continue...