Superman vs KKK (1946)
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Death on the Lot With Adam McKay
The idea is around what it means to be an American in this period, particularly coming out of the war. There really was this emphasis on embracing pluralism as important to what it meant to be American. It's why you get the desecregation of the military shortly after World War II. You see it too in this kind of fight against racism that Superman is leading. He originally starts out as a kind of like progressive anti-corruption fighter. But then he sort of settles in on this, I think, more modern understanding of Superman as a champion for truth.
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