This is the reason "The Hurt Locker" garnered so much positive attention last year, while Cameron's "Avatar", a powerful anti-war, anti-exploitation film, was thoroughly ignored by the Motion Picture Academy.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
How Your Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize Pro-War Movies and Block Anti-War Movies
The 1970s saw far fewer Pentagon-backed war films for a public that was fatigued from Vietnam and its aftermath on the evening news. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, as Reaganite militarism began ascending, the 1980s saw "a steady growth in the demand for access to military facilities and in the number of films, TV shows and home videos made about the military."
This is the reason "The Hurt Locker" garnered so much positive attention last year, while Cameron's "Avatar", a powerful anti-war, anti-exploitation film, was thoroughly ignored by the Motion Picture Academy.
This is the reason "The Hurt Locker" garnered so much positive attention last year, while Cameron's "Avatar", a powerful anti-war, anti-exploitation film, was thoroughly ignored by the Motion Picture Academy.
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