Episode 56: A Christmas Story and the history of Christmas movies with Vaughn Joy

Historians At The Movies - Podcast autorstwa Jason Herbert

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It's Christmas time and that means visiting an old classic. This week doctoral student Vaughn Joy joins in to talk about A Christmas Story and her work looking at how the American government exerted control over Christmas films as a way of influencing the national narrative. We talk about all we love and hate with this movie, the history of Christmas films, and yes, continue to debate whether on not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. About our guest:Vaughn’s research interests lie in e...

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