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Dave Eggers’ ‘To Be Destroyed’, ‘XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture’, ‘Admissions Granted’ & ‘Battleground Georgia’ Lead MSNBC Films Slate
EXCLUSIVE: MSNBC Films has unveiled its spring and summer slate including a Dave Eggers documentary about book-banning. The news network is launching four feature and short documentaries in its Sunday night slot between April and July. This includes a number of films for its The Turning Point series, which kicked off in 2022 with a […]
Eggers’ To Be Destroyed, which will launch on July 21, follows the A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author as he embarks on a journey to Rapid City, South Dakota in the aftermath of his book’s controversial ban by the local school board. The film features comedians Marc Maron, Judy Gold, Nimesh Patel, and Hari Kondabolu, journalists Ari Melber, and Andrew Chow, and scholars whose work focuses on the intersection of race, media and power Meredith D. Clark and Loretta J. Ross. It explores the notion of Cancel Culture, which grew out of a mostly progressive move to hold people accountable for bad behavior, especially racist or misogynistic language, has recently been co-opted by some conservatives who–in equal measure–criticize its “woke” goals, cast themselves as its victims, and attempt to use it themselves as a political powerplay, while seeking to deplatform opponents with similar strategies.
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