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Selling Out Santa is about how Hollywood manipulated the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the post-war, early Cold War period. The films from that period are now considered classics and form the basis for many Americans's nostalgia for Christmas media.
My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Selling Out Santa is about how Hollywood manipulated the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the post-war, early Cold War period. The films from that period are now considered classics and form the basis for many Americans's nostalgia for Christmas media.
I think it's a great idea, you might check if your dining plan has a way to donate excess funds directly also because I know some schools do!
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I think it's a great idea, you might check if your dining plan has a way to donate excess funds directly also because I know some schools do!
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I just have this crazy notion that we could all help each other and that everybody would be a lot nicer if eleven people didn't have 90% of literally everything.
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I just have this crazy notion that we could all help each other and that everybody would be a lot nicer if eleven people didn't have 90% of literally everything.