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Hollywood's Vietnam Moment

Ross Douthat takes a critical look at the film industry's response to the Iraq War.

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The Return of the Paranoid Style

 April 2008

By Ross Douthat

"Conservatives hoped that 9/11 would bring back the best of the 1940s and 1950s, playing Pearl Harbor to a new era of patriotism and solidarity. Many on the left feared it would restore the worst of the same era, returning us to the shackles of censorship and conformism, jingoism and Joe McCarthy. But as far as Hollywood is concerned, another decade entirely seems to have slouched round again: the paranoid, cynical, end-of-empire 1970s.
"We expected John Wayne; we got Jason Bourne instead."
   

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