https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/28/enough-already-stop-politicizing-pop-culture/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 14:28:05 -0400<![CDATA[The politicization of Zero Dark Thirty is understandable; it deals with a controversial policy furiously debated during the Bush presidency, after all. But a work of art needn’t be expressly political for the critic to bemoan its political failings. Here are a few recent examples I stumbled on while doing my regular media rounds: on opposite pages in London’s Times, actor Gael García Bernal complains that British films like The Queen don&#8217;t offer a political worldview (a missed opportunity for antiroyalism), while columnist Caitlin Moran transforms the hit BBC drama Call the Midwife into “the most radical piece of Marxist-feminist dialectic to ever be broadcast on prime-time television.”]]>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:00:18 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/28/enough-already-stop-politicizing-pop-culture-n99643