For All Mankind’s #Resist Moment
For All Mankind‘s sci-fi reprise of the American story is a compelling corrective to the nativism in America’s current cultural-political moment.
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Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ Diagnoses Everyday Fascism
If everyday fascism’s essence is the anti-humanist view of living beings as disposable instruments, then Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is its field manual and warning.
Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train Keeps on Rollin’
Certain books make you dream; Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train wakes you up to the blunt fact that you are alive and living in an ever-rollin’ mythology.
Red Westerns of the Socialist East
The Red Westerns made in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe appropriated the tropes of the Western to critique America’s mythologies while advancing their own.
American Mythology in Terrence Malick’s ‘Days of Heaven’
Days of Heaven questions modernity and neoliberalism while simultaneously critiquing the Agrarian Myth, Manifest Destiny, and the Myth of the Noble Savage.
Beautiful Lies and False Gods in ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice’
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice ‘interrogates two primal drives in American culture: fear and its trauma (Batman) and naked power and its ambiguities (Superman).