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Production for Blumhouse&#039;s &quot;The Hunt&quot; was canceled because of controversy surrounding the film&#039;s political nature. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)

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In June 2016, J. D. Vance released Midwestern memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” to a country in the grip of election fever. Vance’s nonfiction book, following his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, was intended to shed light on the crises hitting America’s small towns: unemployment, opioid epidemics, failing institutions and limited opportunities.

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The Quad: What happened when ‘The Hunt’ tried to comment on the American political divide

By Ryan Wu

Sept. 30, 2019 8:22 p.m.