The Woke War on Movies

Willow Heath examines the concept of media literacy by analyzing how viewers can identify underlying sociopolitical themes in cinema. She has discovered a website that judges movies on whether they are “woke or not”. Oh boy… Through a deep dive into the 2005 horror film House of Wax, the discussion highlights how seemingly non-political narratives still inherently reflect the societal structures, biases, and cultural contexts in which they are produced.

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