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Culture Watch
Good movies are often not easy to watch for progressive Christian-types. In films of lesser quality, the action and violence is an end in itself rather than a vehicle to drive the drama.
These are difficult days for those who argue that America is a homogenous culture built on European-Christian principles.
In 1936, Charlie Chaplin made one of the very last silent films, Modern Times.
As this is written, The Great Depression - produced by Henry Hampton's Blackside Inc., the team behind the epochal Eyes on the Prize series - has just started its four-week run
Warrior Marks, the recently released Alice Walker-Pratibha Parmar collaboration, continues the exploration of female genital mutilation begun in Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy.
Battles over culture will, for the near future, become increasingly central to political debate in this country.