Why Historians Will Study 2025 Cinema
This was a cultural moment akin to 1999 or the early 1970s
American cinema has long flip-flopped between revealing the world as it is and the world as it wants it to be.
Certain eras retreat into wish-fulfilment. The Reaganite 1980s unleashed a wave of ‘roided-up bodybuilders on enemies home and abroad. America was back, baby: bigger, meaner, and manlier than ever. Following the War on Terror, stud…