Sunday, 2 December 2018

Outlaw King and the invention of nationalism




This is a really interesting article, homing in on the new Netflix drama called Outlaw King but exploring notions of "nationhood" far back in historical time.  Well worth reading.  All about cliches, assumptions, and convenient historical distortions and misrepresentations........

Epic Fails: ‘Outlaw King’ and Netflix’s Nationalism Problem
What the film industry gets wrong—and Monty Python gets right—about the nation.

By Kanishk Tharoor

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