![]() ![]() We break it down while listening to some of the candidates. And then there’s the question of how to define a summer jam. It’s dangerous to go looking at the beginning of June, since we’ve got more than a month for a winner to declare itself. The hunt for the song of the summer is only slightly less fraught. We talk about this movie’s politics: Does “Wonder Woman” say anything interesting about women? Does it need to? Or might a feminist message be antithetical to what seems to be the movie’s primary goal: to get enough people to see it so that the studio will keep cranking out women-centered movies? “Wonder Woman,” the first female-fronted (and female-directed) superhero blockbuster, is this year’s entry: a movie too important not to see, whether or not it’s any good. For instance: How does the release of a female-driven action movie become a national political event? Still? Last week we got our annual reminder that those artificial demarcations can bring up some real issues. Summer is here, and even though categorizing your culture by season feels completely artificial, Americans do it anyway.
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