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Ben Dickenson

Ben Dickenson is a writer living in the UK. He writes film crticism, journalism, and analysis with a special interest in the realtionships between politics, film, and economics. He has a master's degree in film from University of Westminster. Ben's first book, The Youth of Today Have Something to Say, received national acclaim in the youth policy field, and his play Eclipse won awards at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 2003 will see publication of his book A New Radicalism: Economics, Politics, and Meaning in '90s Hollywood.

in issue 42

The Trouble with the Governator
The ascension of Arnold — salvation, apocalypse, or the trigger for a resurgent left?

in issue 40

Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar's 75th
It's contagious — even Oscar dissented

in issue 38

Goodbye Warren, Hello Tim: How Clinton Demobilised Liberalism and Anti-Capitalism Came to Hollywood
Hollywood shows some unsuspected radical tendencies — after eight years of Clintonian "liberalism"

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