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Wasilla, Alaska — Pat O’Hara, a journalist who served on the Wasilla school board for twelve years, remembers how the religious right made her feel like a stranger in her own community. The Mat-Su Valley, which includes the neighboring towns of Wasilla and Palmer, had once been a libertarian sort of place, full of blue-collar individualists who didn’t fit in elsewhere. “I had the dog team in the woods, the cabin in the woods. My friends were teachers, farmers, construction workers,” she said as she stood with about 1,500 demonstrators at a September 13 anti-Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage. “It was kind of a working, very much Democratic community. And then it changed.”
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Notable among the feature documentaries is Michael Wilson’s “Silhouette City”, a non-fiction essay that examines the growth of militaristic elements of the American religious right. The film draws an uncomfortable parallel between a relatively small offshoot of Christian survivalist camps in the 1980s and the current religious hawks that have been taking over the nation’s right-wing, fueled by similarly apocalyptic visions.
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Review: Is ‘Silhouette City’ this year’s ‘Jesus Camp?’
Clive James, in his review of “American Movie Critics” for the New York Times Book Review in 2006 wrote, “…it’s the movie itself that tells you it means business. It does that by telling a story. No story, no movie.”
“Silhouette City,” a new film by Michael Wilson, is a documentary about the rapid rise of religious extremism in America. It’s a haunting account of where the Christian evangelical movement has been and where it’s going, and it is impeccably researched.
Review: ‘Silhouette City’ Captures Essence of Christian Right as Supremacist Political Movement
It is the mark of a truly outstanding documentary that it can survive the test of a fast-changing political and religious landscape and remain relevant and even transcendent. There have been many superb documentaries in the last few years about religion and politics, but my own personal opinion is that Michael W. Wilson’s Silhouette City stands above the pack, and for one overriding reason – Wilson’s deep understanding of the dynamic in which the militant, militia-movement grounded Christian right of the 1980’s has morphed into a political movement that has penetrated the highest reaches of American governmental and military structures.
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