Dana Stevens of Slate states, "If "300", the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside "The Eternal Jew" as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war. Since it is a product of the post-ideological, post-Xbox 21st century, "300" will instead be talked about as a technical achievement, the next blip on the increasingly blurry line between movies and video games.