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Michael Winterbottom 'Code 46', which within its scientific trappings deals with the problems brought on by globalization and biotechnology is also a commentary on the contemporary political and social situation. It is additionally demonstrated that 'Code 46' presents an implicit but forceful critique of the 'Narrative of Progress'.

Paul Thomas Anderson's first 3 motion pictures, 'Hard Eight,' 'Boogie Nights,' and 'Magnolia,' sympathetically portray marginal cultural figures. Anderson's cinematic style challenges dominant market ideology and patriarchal values, although these films do involve dominant and submissive relations and surrogate families.

The New York Times, in most of the over 300 articles published since 1993, often mentioned support for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) from the Clinton administration and the private sector. The Times's treatment of NAFTA opposition was often encased within personalized narratives that avoided substantive analysis.

An analysis of Alex Cox's 1986 independent film, Sid & Nancy, examines the strains between allusion and illusion and discusses the early punk era to which they belonged.