Royal Rumble: Academics vs. Film Critics

A Twitter tussle over Ben Urwand's book The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler is emblematic of the battle being waged by popular critics and ivory-tower dwellers for control over the cultural narrative. 

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