Die Hard is a perennial of festive TV, but is it really a Christmas movie?

James Butler and Eleanor Penny explore what the 1988 action comedy reveals about corporate power, class antagonism, mid-century terrorism and women in the workplace. Who is Bruce Willis’ shoeless cowboy cop out to rescue? And what is Hans Gruber’s vague European accent supposed to tell us?

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