All posts tagged: Michael Moore

Why Less is Still Moore–Celebrity and the Reactive Politics of Farenheit 9/11

The conservative animus toward Michael Moore’s success is to be expected. But what is the liberal-left’s problem with the filmmaker? Throughout his career, Moore’s work has garnered a host of moral judgments and criticisms from left-leaning journalists and scholars who are sympathetic to either the message or the objectives of his films, but see his tactics as, at best, counterproductive