Barbie: Ideology and the Culture Wars

Despite Barbie's ‘progressive-corporate’ gender equality agenda, its ideology amplifies the culture wars, the chosen territory of populist right forces.

Posted by @barbiethemovie

This review takes a critical perspective of this popular movie; but let’s begin by saying that Barbie is a clever film – it is engaging, funny, well-directed, well-acted, and a little provocative. Yet it is also a very problematic movie if we ‘look awry’ and take a more curious stance.

Any Hollywood movie that addresses feminism…