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This is an issue i see with many american documentaries, within the individualistic bias of a lot of american media, the first thing to Be cut is usually class analysis. I feel in media created for an american mass audience recognizing class dynamics would often alienate a section of the audience, especially considering documentary as a form of entertainment that has to interface with the audience's tendancy towards escapism, and the amount of shame revolving around the class conversation in north america. Keep in mind that liberal individualism and liberalisms perception of being "post-ideological" and the false goal of objectivity in media, also creates an enviroment where there class often is neglected to be mentioned in documentaries. When documentary becomes about entertainment, they are often structured around western moralist narratives. Historical figures become protagonists or antagonists. and the interactions become reduced into culturally digestable cliché.

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