November 7, 2019
China Doesn't Want You to Watch This Video
The entertainment industry in America has a big problem… Chinese censorship. China is a make or break market for Hollywood movies, and a major player in film financing. But the audiences and money come with strings attached. China’s Communist Party picks and chooses what its people are able to watch, and what’s deemed acceptable ranges from laughable to enraging. In this episode of Out of Frame, we look at how China influences our entertainment and how we can fight back.
CREDITS:
Produced by Sean W. Malone
Written by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Arash Ayrom & Sean W. Malone
LINKS:
— New Series: Revolution of One — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdC6nBjuUtG8m_bbM2UzmPQ
— Chinese Influence on US Entertainment —
https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/blizzard-bans-blitzchung-hearthstone-hong-kong-china-statement-1203363050/
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/china-anger-over-hong-kong-ensnares-apple-nba-activision-blizzard.html
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/8/20904433/blizzard-hong-kong-hearthstone-blitzchung
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/7/20902700/daryl-morey-tweet-china-nba-hong-kong https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-politics-when-discussing-daryl-morey-s-tweet-about-chinese-politics/ar-AAItEZN?li=BBnb2gh
https://reason.com/2019/10/09/philadelphia-76ers-fan-ejected-from-preseason-game-for-supporting-hong-kong/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-vans-idUSKBN1WN0IZ https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/transformers-4-will-be-co-financed-and-partially-filmed-in-china
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/12/trump-xi-trade-talks-china-hollywood-film-quota
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/11/movie-theaters-china-market-us-culture-cinema-hollywood.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-xi/chinas-xi-warns-attempts-to-divide-china-will-end-in-shuttered-bones-idUSKBN1WS07W?fbclid=IwAR0YheDNOtWEcHWYvzxufdunzekd-CpCwjur5tbXaDdaqWDO0BWo_NlADNw
https://www.theepochtimes.com/south-park-episode-band-in-china-is-banned-in-china_3109348.html — Chineses Economic History —
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/maos-great-leap-forward-killed-45-million-in-four-years-2081630.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_1972_visit_to_China
https://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/policy/2015/09/24/debating-capitalism-and-morality-thomas-sowell-1-pope-francis-0/
http://www.science.org.hk/attachment/figure_2012.html
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/poverty-decline-without-china?time=1981..2015
— From FEE —
https://fee.org/articles/chinas-poverty-is-dropping-at-an-unprecedented-rate/
https://fee.org/articles/state-capitalism-no-the-private-sector-remains-the-driver-of-china-s-economic-growth/
https://fee.org/articles/dont-fear-trade-with-china/
https://fee.org/articles/chinas-triumph-over-poverty-was-spearheaded-by-privatization/
https://fee.org/articles/how-chinas-factories-are-liberating-women/
https://fee.org/articles/the-man-behind-the-hong-kong-miracle/
https://fee.org/articles/freedom-works-the-case-of-hong-kong/
https://fee.org/articles/hong-kong-a-success-story/
September 8, 2022
Thank you, and goodbye. Now it's your turn.
My dear Out of Frame supporters.
On this special, final edition of Out of Frame, I want to take some time to thank you, talk about the future, discuss the state of ideas, and highlight the Steven Spielberg’s 1997 movie “Amistad” — which turns out to be the perfect vehicle for some of the things I want to say as I close out the show.
Freedom is the birthright, and the desire of virtually everyone on the planet, and yet the enemies of liberty are everywhere — power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats, “strong men” authoritarians, technocrats, socialists, and cowardly citizens — so the battle to maintain a world built on individual liberty and the dignity of human beings will never be definitively won for all time.
Fighting for a free society requires a passionate, energetic minority to carry the torch and persuade others with open hearts and open minds. It’s a task I’ve dedicated my life towards, and I’m leaving FEE and this series so that I can work on even bigger projects and try to make an even greater impact than I hope I’ve had here.
So with this final episode of Out of Frame, I wanted to challenge you to pick up where I’m leaving off. It’s YOUR turn to get creative, and I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Cheers,
Sean W. Malone
Creator, Producer, Writer, and Host of Out of Frame.
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CREDITS:
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LINKS:
— White Savior-ism —
A Critical Analysis of White Savior Films and Why You Should Avoid Them
https://aninjusticemag.com/the-problems-with-hollywoods-white-savior-narratives-2ed0bd5e5cf6
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/09/16/amistad-spielberg-and-the-sword-of-empathy
— Intersectional Nonsense —
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-white-people-will-neve_b_7875608
https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/separate_but_equal_again_neo_segregation_at_yale
— Economic Turmoil —
https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating
After 2 Consecutive Quarters of Negative Economic Growth, Is America in a Recession?
https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product
— Amistad —
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp
Thank you, and goodbye. Now it’s your turn. 
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