Hollywood Vs. Jihadis: It Didn’t Start With Zero Dark Thirty

Films on this theme “are always informed, and their reception shaped, by politics of the era in which they were created. It’s as true now for Zero Dark Thirty as it was for a series of films in the 1980s that made none of the claims of journalistic rigor that director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have made.” Consider, for instance, Rambo III.