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Article: America the menace: France's feud with Hollywood.
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Hollywood and France are the feuding hillbilly dynasties of world culture, mired in a conflict so ancient and obscure that few can explain what, exactly, it's about. Yet, it appears impossible for more than a few months to go past without some person - who should know better - declaiming about the God-given right of the people of France to view some forgettable special-effects extravaganza, or of the urgent need to protect the gossamer-fragile civilization of Racine, Flaubert, and Proust from the cultural depredations of Bruce Willis and Leonardo DiCaprio.
If all of this were just background noise, it might not matter. However, the war of words between French and ...