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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 65–71.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Viet Thanh Nguyen World Policy Journal speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who criticizes an “industry of memory” that creates and bolsters a single version of history. Hollywood, the Vietnamese-American author says, is a “very powerful propaganda ministry” that seduces...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 93–99.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the Sailor , Hollywood westerns, and Bollywood musicals in neighborhood movie theaters. After independence in 1960, Nigerians started making their own celluloid films, classics like Kongi’s Harvest (a 1970 adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s play). Nigerian directors such as Hubert Ogunde, Jab Adu, Ola Balogun...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 56–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the government usually takes undeserved credit for. A government official even claimed that the Oscar A Separation (2011) won for best foreign-language film was the result of their lobbying in Hollywood! This was the same government that had attempted to shut down the film while it was being shot...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 122.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who criticizes the “industry of memory” that creates and bolsters a single version of history. Hollywood, the Vietnamese-American author says, is a “very powerful propaganda ministry” that seduces audiences to identify with the American...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2001
... the
gullible. A prime American specimen last year was U -571, a submarine epic inspired by the
British Navy’s capture in May 1941 of a German Enigma deciphering machine. By adroit
Hollywood witchcraft, the British sailors were turned into Yanks, and the daring raid attrib
uted to the U.S. Navy...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Taliban soldiers lack uniforms, or whether their govern
ment had little international standing or recognition. Neither did the Greeks who fought
for independence against Ottoman Turks, and neither did Marion’s swamp fighters in the
Carolinas, recently glorified in a Hollywood epic, The Patriot...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 13–17.
Published: 01 March 2017
... individualism, and social precariousness. He does not organize and mobilize the masses; he attracts an audience in an atomized society of consumers. He does not wear a uniform, like Hitler and Mussolini, but instead exhibits his luxurious lifestyle like a stereotype of a Hollywood star. More than a new...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 93–99.
Published: 01 December 2011
... with a paralyzing fear that these boxes contain killer microbes ready to bore into your body, giving you a foretaste of hell while they turn your flesh into a microscopic battlefield. In the same way sharks became a public marine nightmare after Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a host of Hollywood movies suggests...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 June 2000
... difference. European con of Arc have been doing well enough at the
sumers rejected products containing GMOs, box office to relax earlier French panics over
their supermarket chains responded by refus the Hollywood invasion.
ing to stock them, and the ever-inventive Moreover, Hollywood studios...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2015
... in oppressive regimes overseas. Just as quickly, Tor was identified by criminals as the best means to protect their virtual meeting places online. Entrepreneurial criminals then saw the potential for distributing pirated copies of Hollywood blockbusters and new music videos, and that Tor would make it possible...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 96–101.
Published: 01 March 2004
... tunes as and walk to the first landing where a large
couples danced: historical fiction, gorged on window looks out over a pale yellow court
new freedom and a Hollywood budget. Per yard. A rusted Russian-built Lada from the
haps it was the strong homebrewed beer, 1980s sits in a puddle...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 78–84.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., the
and other Hollywood staples, you’ll find Muslim Brotherhood was seeking the imple
one of last year’s most sought-after items— mentation of Sharia (Islamic) law as the law
secretly filmed footage of renowned singer of the land.
and belly dancer Dina enjoying intimate After the Muslim Brotherhood...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 March 2013
...? Haifaa: As an artist, I would love to do things in Italy. Why not? If I get an offer from Hollywood, I’m not going to turn it down. No way. Of course, Saudi Arabia is the place where I can produce more. I know the place. I feel like I belong here. I know how to tell a story from that place...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 95–101.
Published: 01 June 2003
... la décomposition du système américain , Todd Emmanuel , Paris : Gallimard , 2002 Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 B # # K S
B ill Grantham is the author « / “Some Big Bourgeois Brothel”: Contexts for France’s Culture Wars with Hollywood
(University of Luton Press...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 91–100.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., Payless Shoes Source, Off Roads Sports, Quick Photo, Girl Sensation, and Radio Shack. The food court includes Go Green, Pizza Hut, Burger King, McDonald’s, and Valenti’s Pizza. The Cine Mark offers blockbusters from Hollywood. Most Nicaraguans cannot afford much at Metrocentro, but there are always crowds...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Trump, can hardly be accused of concealing his hatred for women. Prior to entering politics, he was already known to refer to women as “dogs,” “pigs,” and “slobs.” In the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape recording that nearly derailed his presidential dreams, Trump boasted that he enjoyed grabbing...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 33–42.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Chávez has hosted Hollywood actors like Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, and Danny Glover and was interviewed by supermodel Naomi Campbell. Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone featured him in his 2009 film South of the Border , a documentary examining Chávez’s portrayal in the media. The Venezuelan president...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to government mouthpieces,
Ravshan’s body was returned to his family neutral business journals, and Hollywood
the following day. Those who saw the badly scandal sheets. “There’s no press freedom
bruised corpse said Ravshan’s neck and leg here,” said one woman. “Karimov runs the
had been broken...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 31–39.
Published: 01 September 2004
...: Eastern Europe After
the Revolutions (South End Press, 1992).
The Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki
Human Rights and U.S.-North Korean Relations
John Feffer
In the movie Lost in Translation, an aging sible detriment of both regional security
Hollywood actor and a young...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., low-level
Hollywood, did not respond to e-mails consulate in India, in Bombay, upgraded
about whether he had continued to follow during a period when India fawned on Yas-
the story.) His account does not mention sir Arafat and made life miserable for Israeli
Israel, but does conclude...
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