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How China Captured Hollywood

Erich Schwartzel The Atlantic
Over this next century, China wants to use the movies to rebrand itself, and it has learned how to do so from the best.

It’s a Wonderful Life vs. the FBI

Rhys Handley Jacobin
Amid Cold War paranoia, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI set its sights on a potential source of communist subversion: Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Stands the Test of Time

Leonard Pierce Jacobin
Looking for something other than sappy Christmas movies to watch over the holidays? There is no greater and more prescient skewering of the absurdity of the American national security state than Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.