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Library Wars: A New Front In America's Cultural Wars (2024)

Library Wars: A New Front In America's Cultural Wars (2024)

Documentary
Release Date: 2024, November 13
Directors: Ilan Ziv
Countries: France, United States of America
Production: Serge Gordey for Temps noir, Paul Cadieux for Filmoption

Overview:

Cultural wars have transformed politics in the US into identity politics dividing the electorate and calcifying political differences and party loyalties. For the past decades, abortion divided the country and the voters. Now it’s public libraries that have been transformed into the new battlefields in America’s cultural wars. How can one explain this seemingly sudden focus on books, in school and public libraries? What is behind this rise in censorship? This film follows four distinct stories that illuminate and explain the evolution of this newest battleground in America’s long culture war.