http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/3212/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/how-hollywood-de-fanged-potter%E2%80%99s-radical-politics/5576 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1: more than a movie review </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/harry_potter.jpg" alt="" title="The recent movie focuses on love lives of the three main characters rather than their political activity" width="450" height="225" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Harry Potter novels include a significant political subtext, which is at least as important as the teen romance or coming-of-age aspects. In Deathly Hallows the novel, the political subtext becomes the main storyline as a holocaust-style persecution of wizards without &lsquo;pure blood&rsquo; begins. But perhaps inevitably the movie adaptations do not do justice to the political themes.</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/how-hollywood-de-fanged-potter%E2%80%99s-radical-politics/5576" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/how-hollywood-de-fanged-potter%E2%80%99s-radical-politics/5576#comments Megan Kinch Arts Gender Media Solidarity more than a movie review Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:51:33 +0000 Megan Kinch 5576 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca