Friday, June 8 2012
Flash Points: Racial Profiling, Riot Porn and the Zombie Apocolypse
This week we look at racial profiling through the lens of controversial writer John Derbyshire. We also talk about racism within hip-hop and find ourselves stimulated by the riot porn of the new Jay-Z and Kanye West video. Flash Points ends on a more positive note: the rise of the walking dead.
Friday, August 5 2011
‘Shock Value’: What Men (and Boys) Really Fear
Jason Zinoman argues that the fantastic, Gothic monsters of the first half of the 20th century were replaced by a New Horror -- the monster right in front of your face.
Monday, June 23 2003
The Crazies (1973)
For Romero, the monsters of our imagination always coexist with the products on the shelves at the Five & Dime.
