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On the other hand, certainly no one can ever accuse this series of glamorizing a life of crime - or, for that matter, a life of anything. The movie Gilda, with its narrative stereotypes and cloying sets, is a perfect manifesto of American cultural colonialism in the wake of World War II, and Krippendorff uses it to map Hollywood's role in glamorizing war and power, with their potent mix of the erotic and the political. Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers celebrated soldiers' heroism while warning of totalitarian political trends -- yet the 1997 film of the same name (below) inverted that message by glamorizing totalitarianism. |
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