Always Be Watching

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The modern biopic as propaganda
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The modern biopic as propaganda

ALSO: Arrested Development at 20. Still relevant. AND: The Bear renewed for season 3.

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The best read of today is Vince Mancini at The Ringer on the changing nature of the biopic. Mancini considers their shift from what was generally a pretty well-worn, over-used format of following a person’s life from their earliest years through to their death (see: Citizen Kane through to Walk Hard), but now serve largely as propaganda with the story o…

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