#16 Hollywood: Lights, Camera, Brainwash!
· 45 min · S2 E16
Episode #16 Hollywood: Lights, Camera, Brainwash!
When a G20 summit in South Africa becomes a Hollywood hostage thriller, what story about power is really being told? This episode uses the G20 movie to trace how US movies (from WWII to the War on Terror and today) have doubled as soft propaganda, glamorising US power while turning places like South Africa, Iraq and Russia into chaotic backdrops or stock villains. We unpack what that does to global perceptions, how it shapes self‑image in the countries portrayed, and why some scholars now call this cultural imperialism in the age of Netflix and algorithms #You'reAJOAT
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