Liberals, fascists, and communists all tend to have different artistic preferences. Fascists like Duck Dynasty, liberals like Harry Potter, communists like Parasite. I know people are going to jump down my throat with that last one and there are subjective exceptions but I think you know what I mean. I loved the movie Us, for example, but a lib friend of mine said he "didn't get it." I felt the same after I watched the movie Snowpiercer back when I was a lib. The obvious class politics in that movie repelled me. (I haven't seen it since.)
I also have another idea I want to test out here. I think that the farther you get from the imperial core, the less interested people are in Star Trek / Star Wars. Both of these are basically outgrowths of the Western, so it probably applies to superhero movies too, since these are also just westerns with different costumes. The bad guys in cowboy movies are always the indigenous, and the indigenous are the ones who live in the Global South. Living in South Korea, I was fascinated at the seeming total lack of interest people there had in Star Wars and Star Trek. They also have no interest in Kurosawa movies, at least in my experience, since they aren't really too fond of samurai (and I know Kurosawa didn't just make samurai movies).
I'm out of time, so I'll just reiterate my question: are artistic preferences just another expression of politics / class? If you like or dislike a work of art, is that entirely because of your class or are there other factors?
I've actually thought about this kind of thing for a long time. There has to be some sort of subtle manipulation to that degree by ad companies, because I remember when I was like 12, I noticed that companies that had similar aesthetics, were pairing up. Take McDonalds and Coca Cola for example. They both play(ed) to the nostalgia of yesteryear very often, and that's why I assume they sell coke products at McDonald's. Plus, their color schemes are similar. Both have striking red imagery.
It started when I realized I didn't like Pepsi, but I preferred burger King. I always wondered why no burger king's ever had coke. Pepsi used to have similar color schemes to burger king, like McDonald's and coke.
I know this is all different now, but it's a great example of how advertisements targeted boomers who were either yuppies (bk/Pepsi) or boomer conservatives who miss the drive in burger joint with an ice cold coke. It divided them along left/right lines.
I'm sure there are a ton of other examples that are better, but I truly believe the fact that I noticed this at such a young age helped push me into realizing that it's us vs them. By that, I mean proles vs bougies