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We begin a new three episode series on Italian filmmakers and their depictions of fascism. We start with Luchino Visconti's 1969 film THE DAMNED about an industrialist German family and the depravity they engage in as they navigate a working relationship with the ascendant Third Reich. Discussion also includes:
Homosexuality during the rise of the Nazis; The United Auto Workers who are suing Trump and Elon; Alachua County's efforts to divest from corporate interests; The Alien franchise and why it's great.Follow us online!
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Robert Beachy’s 2010 article “The German Invention of Homosexuality” in the Journal of Modern History Samuel Clowes Huneke’s 2019 article “Death Wish: Suicide and Stereotype in the Gay Discourses of Imperial and Weimar Germany” in New German Critique Susan Sontag’s 1989s chapter “Fascinating Fascism” from Under the Sign of Saturn Erich Fromm’s 1964 article “Creators and Destroyers” in The Saturday Review Eleanor Hancock’s 1998 article “'Only the Real, the True, the Masculine Held Its Value": Ernst Rohm, Masculinity, and Male Homosexuality” in Journal of the History of Sexuality. https://uaw.org/uaw-files-federal-labor-charges-against-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-for-attempting-to-intimidate-and-threaten-workers/ -
For our final episode discussing films about Ernest "Che" Guevara, we watched Walter Salles 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries, an acount of Guevara's eye-opening journey through South America that inspired the revolutionary ideals Che would soon bring to all of Latin America. Also:
Other recent watches: Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Dune II (2024), Bones and All (2022), Jodorowsky's Dune (2013), and RATS! (2024); Packing the supreme court; Craig celebrates a personal achievement! Vanguardism and its importance to a revolution.Follow us online!
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A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2004/aug/26/features https://thefilmstage.com/claire-denis-ryusuke-hamaguchi-kiyoshi-kurosawa-christian-petzold-apichatpong-weerasethakul-more-sign-demand-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/ -
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Hal and Craig watched Steven Soderbergh's Che: Part Two (2008), chronicling Che Guevara's time fighting in the Bolivian Revolution and his eventual capture and execution. Discussion also includes:
Craig's recent trip to Chicago (lots of Cubs and White Sox talk!); The Black Panther Cubs and Fred Hampton's legacy of community action; Hal's letterboxd list of movies about artistes; Our recent movie watches: IN A VIOLENT NATURE (2024), MARAT/SADE (1967), SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY. (2024); Why the Bolivian Revolution failed, where the Cuban Revolution did not.Follow us online!
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A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara Blowback Podcast Season 2 Guerilla Warfare by Ernesto Guevara “Why Che?" by Amy Taubin "On the Record With Hamas" by Jeremy Scahill Blasier, Cole. 1967. “Studies of Social Revolution: Origins in Mexico, Bolivia, and Cuba.” Latin American Research Review 2(3): 28-64. Dominguez, Jorge I. and Christopher N. Mitchell. 1977. “The Roads Not Taken: Institutionalization and Political Parties in Cuba and Bolivia. Comparative Politics. 9(2): 173-195. Eckstein, Susan. 1985. “Revolutions and the Restructuring of National Economies: The Latin American Experience.” Comparative Politics. 17(4): 473-494. Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P. 1992. Guerillas & Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes Since 1956. -
Hal and Craig watch Steven Soderbergh's Che: Part One (2008), chronicling the life of Argentine Revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his time leading guerilla fighters in the Cuban Revolution. Discussions also include:
Kendrick Lamar's Pop-Out Concert; Yorgos Lanthimos' new film KINDS OF KINDNESS; Paul Schrader and his sad, broken men; Hal breaks down some troubling new legislation regarding SNAP benefits and food access; Book talk! (TENDER IS THE FLESH by Augustina Bazterrica & WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE by John Ganz)Follow us online!
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A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara Blowback Podcast Season 2 Guerilla Warfare by Ernesto Guevara “Why Che?" by Amy Taubin -
It's the final episode of our series The Reds, White, and Blue, looking at films about the red scare and a fear of a communist menace. This time, Hal & Craig watched Armando Iannucci's (Veep, In the Loop) satire "The Death of Stalin". We discuss Stalinism, how it diverges from Leninism, and whether or not the film is an effective satire. Discussions also include:
Some new movies we've been watching: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Monkey Man, and Unfrosted; The recent tornados that swept through the American southeast; A look at last year's anti-union legislation passed in Florida; and What makes effective satire?GoFundMe to Support Railroad Square Business affected by the May 10th Tornados: https://www.gofundme.com/f/poststorm-recovery-for-rrsq-businesses
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More info on Stalinism & Communism: https://www.marxists.org/subject/stalinism/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/t.htm#stalinism https://www.marxists.org/archive/chamberlin-william/1929/soviet-russia/ch13.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/young-harry/1943/russia_religion.htm https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/s/t.htm#stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1921/jan/05.htm https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/malenkov/1949/12/21.htm Wheatcroft, Stephen G. “Understanding Stalinism: A Reply.” Europe-Asia Studies 58, no. 7 (2006): 1141–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20451292. Fitzpatrick, Sheila. “New Perspectives on Stalinism.” The Russian Review 45, no. 4 (1986): 357–73. https://doi.org/10.2307/130466. Reichman, Henry. “Reconsidering ‘Stalinism.’” Theory and Society 17, no. 1 (1988): 57–89. http://www.jstor.org/stable/657663. Matt Zoller Seitz review of "Unfrosted": https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/unfrosted-2024 -
We continue our series on the Red Scare with Phillip Kaufman's 1978 adaptation of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum. In our previous episode, we discussed the machinations of the Red Scare, and in this episode we talk about the paranoia and lives ruined in the wake of the Communist Panic. Discussion also include:
The Kendrick Lamar v. Drake beef; The continued crackdown on Pro-Palestenian college protests; Irving Adler, a communist math teacher, who stared down the House Un-American Activities Committee; Weird right-wingers finally found the cure for wokeness: Sydney Sweeney.Follow us online!
Follow us on Twitter at @RedRoseFilmPod Follow our Facebook Group Follow Hal on Twitter at @shestructured Follow Craig on Twitter at @KegFreighter Follow Hal's Letterboxd Follow Craig's LetterboxdSources & Links
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/public-trust-in-government-1958-2023/ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/books/irving-adler-author-of-science-and-math-books-for-the-young-dies-at-99.html https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1261/ContagiousCultures-Carriers-and-the-Outbreak Jenkins, J. Craig, and Craig M. Eckert. "Channeling black insurgency: Elite patronage and professional social movement organizations in the development of the black movement." American Sociological Review (1986): 812-829. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/5/dozens-arrested-in-us-campuses-in-another-weekend-of-pro-palestine-protests https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/342/485/ https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/age-of-eisenhower/mcarthyism-red-scare https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1952/3/8/the-feinberg-law-ptheoretically-when-the/ -
In this episode, Hal & Craig discuss John Frankenheimer's 1962 political thriller THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and Janet Leigh and the cynical, political use of a vague Communist Menace. We discuss the history of the Red Scare, the legacy of McCarthyism, and the lives upended in its wake. Discussion also includes:
Craig finally watched Hal's favorite movie: THE DEVILS; Our favorite right-wing moron, Steven Crowder, is still having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day!; Good news on Florida's terrible Don't Say Gay Bill; We read (and laugh at) Armond White's 2023 Better-Than List.Follow us online!
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McCarthyism and the Big Lie by Milton Howard (1953): https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061657866/viewer#page/1/mode/2up Last issue (January 1958) of the Communist Party’s Daily Worker newspaper: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/v35-n007-jan-13-1958-FINAL-ISSUE-Daily-Worker-Q.pdf Info on the McCarran Act: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/mccarran-internal-security-act-of-1950/ McCarthy: https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/mccarthy-hearings/have-you-no-sense-of-decency.htm https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/mccarthy-and-army-mccarthy-hearings.html https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures//investigations/mccarthy-hearings/communists-in-government-service.htm https://www.senate.gov/about/oral-history/watt-ruth-young-oral-history.htm https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/house-un-american-activities-committee#materials https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45037 https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/political-affairs/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/youngsocialist/index.htm https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/How-red-baiting-crusade-collapsed-in-SF-courtroom-10907115.php -
We welcome Daniel Harper and Jack Graham, co-hosts of the excellent anti-fascist podcast I Don't Speak German. We watched Spike Lee's incendiary 2018 thriller BlackKklansman. We discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, Hollywood's complicity in its rise, and Spike's reckoning with making a quasi pro-police film. Discussion also includes:
David Duke's bizarre diet and exercise regiment; We discuss the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Virginia and Daniel and Jack give us an update on the rally's most notorious nazi dorks; The harrowing sound editing of Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and Can there be a movie about cops that isn't copaganda?Daniel's Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/danielharper
Jack's Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/jackgraham
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Hal & Craig watched EARTH MAMA, the debut feature from writer-director Savanah Leaf. Discussions include
The United States history of using Child Protective Services to police low-income and black Americans The OSCARS (we talk OPPENHEIMER, Lily Gladstone vs. Emma Stone, and Jonathan Glazer) We celebrate Hal's birthday by discussin their favorite directors; Our favorite films from A24Follow us online!
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"Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism" by Patricia Hill Collins: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4640115 "About CAPTA: A Legsilative History": https://cwig-prod-prod-drupal-s3fs-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/public/documents/about.pdf "Child Protective Service Workers Share Their 'Secret Truths That Haunt'”: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/child-protective-service-cps-social-worker-truth-telling-abolish/ -
Hal & Craig watched John Sayles 1987 film Matewan. The film, starring Chris Cooper and James Earl Jones, tells the true story of the fight between West Virginia coal miners and union busters whose tactics grow increasingly more violent. Discussions also include:
Aaron Bushnell and his remarkable protest against Palestinian genocide; Hal's new obsession THE FLOOR, the Rob Lowe hosted game show; Our recent watches: Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Barry Lyndon, and The Lighthouse; Anti-union violence and America's history of union busting.Follow us online!
Follow us on Twitter at @RedRoseFilmPod Follow our Facebook Group Follow Hal on Twitter at @shestructured Follow Craig on Twitter at @KegFreighter Follow Hal's Letterboxd Follow Craig's LetterboxdSources & Links
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-26/spirit-awards-2024-protester-previous-winner-merawi-gerima https://x.com/kylebuchanan/status/1761886578073559498?s=20 https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/28/movies/film-john-sayles-s-matewan.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/17/fron-m17.html https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/introduction-to-the-west-virginia-mine-wars.htm -
Hal and Craig discuss high-risk activism and the 2022 thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber). We also discuss:
The end of the Vince McMahon era of professional wrestling; The Insane Clown Posse (WHOOP! WHOOP!) and their fight against the FBI; The misogyny of the police, as seen in Netflix's AMERICAN NIGHTMARE; Jonathan Glazer's new film THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and The effects of successful high-risk activism.Follow us Online!
Follow us on Twitter at @RedRoseFilmPod Follow our Facebook Group Follow Hal on Twitter at @shestructured Follow Craig on Twitter at @KegFreighter Follow Hal's Letterboxd Follow Craig's LetterboxdSOURCES & LINKS
“Alabama Rising” https://inquest.org/alabama-rising/
Anarchist Black Cross Federation (https://www.abcf.net/prisoner-info/)
Arkansas 2020 Uprising Repression links: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-angels-commissary-prison-costs https://staging.bsky.app/profile/queersatanic.bsky.social/post/3khqqoh7boq2u https://www.thenation.com/article/society/movement-racial-justice-police-arkansas/ https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/12/12/little-rock-police-vehicle-arson-cases-end-with-federal-sentencing-of-four-defendants
How to Provide Support to Political Prisoners: https://www.prisonersolidarity.com/how-to
Gundelach, Peter and Jonas Toubøl; HIGH- AND LOW-RISK ACTIVISM: DIFFERENTIAL PARTICIPATION IN A REFUGEE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 June 2019; 24 (2): 199–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-24-2-199
McAdam, Doug. "Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of freedom summer." American journal of sociology 92.1 (1986): 64-90.
McAdam, Doug, and Ronnelle Paulsen. “Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 3, 1993, pp. 640–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2781286.
Nepstad, Sharon, Christian Smith; Rethinking Recruitment to High-Risk/Cost Activism: The Case of Nicaragua Exchange. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 April 1999; 4 (1): 25–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.4.1.8152670287r21558
“Struggle for Power: The Ongoing Persecution of Black Movement by the U.S. Government” https://m4bl.org/struggle-for-power/
Zwerman, Gilda, and Patricia G. Steinhoff. 2005. “When Activists Ask for Trouble: State-Dissident Interactions and the New Left Cycle of Resistance in the United States and Japan.” Pp. 85-107in Repression and Mobilization: Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, edited by Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Gilda Zwerman, Patricia Steinhoff; The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 February 2012; 17 (1): 67–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.17.1.b56l107q2n175778
Zwerman, Gilda, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Donatella della Porta. 2000. “Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in the Cycle of New Left Protest in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Italy.” Mobilization 5(1): 83-100.
Examples of repression: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/history-united-states-government-infiltration-protests/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/19/chicago-nato-protesters-terrorism-charges https://truthout.org/articles/revealed-the-story-behind-the-nato-3-domestic-terrorism-arrests/ -
In this episode, Hal and Craig discuss Steven Soderbergh's Traffic and its perspective on the War on Drugs, as well as our favorite Soderbergh films. Discussion also includes:
The new king of hip-hop: Ben Shapiro; Craig accidentally watched a Christian horror movie; Steven Soderbergh at the forefront of new cinematic techniques; Movies with large ensemble casts and multiple plot lines; Our recent film watches, including THE LAST DUEL, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW, and THE DAMNED.Follow the Red Rose Film Club:
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SOURCES & LINKS:
1999 UNESCO report “Drug Trafficking in Mexico: A First General Assessment” by sociologist Luis Astorga: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000117644
Gorrin, Morales-Arilla, and Ricca (2023). “Export side effects of wars on organized crime: The Case of Mexico” Volume 144 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022199623000612
https://www.businessinsider.com/40-years-ago-the-us-sent-mexico-into-a-financial-crisis-and-it-transformed-the-narcotics-industry-2015-9
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We wrap up our series on the films of S. Craig Zahler with perhaps is least palatable film DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE. In the 2018 crime thriller, Zahler focuses his increasingly fascistic lense on the issue of........police brutality (oof!). Starring Mel Gibson (double-oof!) and Vince Vaughn, Zahler's brand of gritty celluloid violence goes full-mask off and asks the big questions like: Why can't cops beat up whoever they want? Conversation also includes:
Craig complaining about baseball; Hutton Gibson, Mel's nazi-sympathizing, conspiracy-enthusiast father. Joe Biden's renewal of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act; an We discuss our recent watches including BODY DOUBLE, THANKSGIVING, SALTBURN, and ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLinks & Sources
https://policecrime.bgsu.edu/
https://policeepi.uic.edu/data-civilian-injuries-law-enforcement/research-injuries-caused-law-enforcement/
https://policebrutalitycenter.org/police-brutality/statistics/
Police Integrity Lost: A Study of Law Enforcement Officers ...
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On this week's episode, we're switching up the format and doing a 2023 Review Show! Hal and Craig list their favorite films and performances of 2023. As well as discussions about their favorite first time watches (of non-2023 films) and favorite non-film media of 2023. And we discuss the not-so-good of 2023 and break down some of our least favorite movies of the year.
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In this episode, Hal and Craig discuss colonialism by way of Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, an innovative film that delves into Algeria's National Liberation Front and their bloody battles against French colonizers in the 1950s. Discussions also include:
New movie roundup: MAY DECEMBER, SATAN WANTS YOU, and EILEEN; How French colonization depicted in Battle of Algiers is an eerie parallel to America's colonial interests in Iraq and Afghanistan; Alabama's exploitation of the labor of incarcerated people; Elon Musk's doomed efforts to stand down Swedish labor unions; and A really weird garage sale where Craig bought all of Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire" books.Sources and Links:
https://aflcio.org/2023/12/15/service-solidarity-spotlight-labor-civil-rights-organizations-file-explosive-lawsuit https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/12/alabama-prison-labor-lawsuit/ Free Alabama Movement blog:https://freealabamamovement.wordpress.com/ Prison Labor practices in Arizona: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/07/18/republic-kjzz-investigation-how-prison-labor-works-arizona/10051268002/ -
We continue our series examining the films of S. Craig Zahler and their increasingly bizarre depiction of a violent, conservative "uptopia/dystopia". This week we watched BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Zahler's attempt at a prison exploitation flick starring Vince Vaughn, Don Johnson, and Udo Kier. Also:
We celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger, one of history's greatest villains. Upcoming movies we're geeked for: THE IRON CLAW, THE SWEET EAST, POOR THINGS, and FERRARI. The Daily Wire has released an anti-trans comedy called LADY BALLERS (or based JUWANNA MAN) What makes an exploitation film?Links and Sources:
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0096.xmlhttps://www.propublica.org/article/tanf-welfare-biden-proposal-state-spending-low-income-families#:~:text=The%20Biden%20administration%20this%20fall,been%20engaging%20in%20for%20years.
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We're talking labor unions! Hal and Craig watched Barbara Kopple's HARLAN COUNTY, USA, the ground-breaking 1976 documentary chronicling the struggles of coal mine workers in Harlan County, Kentucky as they fight against coal barons, police, and scabs in an effort to join the United Mine Workers of America. Discussions also include:
Abortion rights winning at the ballot; Weaponizing the Civil Rights Act against student protestors; A round-up of our recently watched films: The Killer (2023), The Flash (2023), Serial Mom (1994), and The Conformist (1970); and The state of labor unions in Kentucky today;Sources & Links:
National Labor Review Board "The Search for Order 1817-1920" by Robert H. Wiebe (1967) "Democracy for the Few" by Michael Parenti (2002) "Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the US" by Sharon Smith (2006) Nyden, Paul. 1978. Rank-and-file organizations and the United Mine Workers of America. The Insurgent Sociologist. 8(2): 25. Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner's Struggle "They'll Never Keep Us Down" by Hazel Dickens "Which Side Are You On?" by Florence Reese "The Yablonski Murder" by Hazel Dickens -
We celebrate our 1 year pod-iversary by beginning a new series of conservative films, specifically the violent fantasies of S. Craig Zahler. We begin with Zahler's directorial debut Bone Tomahawk, a western-horror starring Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox, and Patrick Wilson. Zahler has a stylish eye and works well in genre conventions, but what lies beneath this horror western is a lot of tired tropes painting native tribes as inhuman. And we start tracking the different types of Manly Men in the Zahler-verse. Discussion also includes:
Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON; Under-appreciated mensch David Arquette; Traditional vs. Revisionist westerns; And some of our favorite moments from our first year of podcasting! -
Hal & Craig discuss Bill Gunn's 1973 film Ganja & Hess and how its the perfect allegory for the nightmarish world wrought by post-colonialism. In addition, we discuss how the film was nearly lost to the sands of time and Sam Waymon's (who also stars in the film) incredible, haunting score. Also:
Craig watched some bad Frankenstein adaptations; Hal's undying love for Suspiria (2018); Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire are making a Snow White movie; and The Scholastic Book Fair capitulates to anti-LGBT morons.Sources & Links:
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Spooky season continues with Bernard Rose's 1992 film Candyman. There's a lot to discuss! Hal and Craig break down how Candyman inverts the racist trope of the "savage brute". In addition, we look at Candyman's deft analysis of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing projects and how Candyman himself is a creation of White America whose pain tends to reverberate mostly in black communities. Discussions also include:
Craig consoling himself after a disastrous baseball postseason from his beloved Tampa Bay Rays;
Hal and Craig's recent concert experiences (Beyonce, and Run the Jewels, respectively);
Tony Todd's ability to pull of terrifying and sexy at the same time; and
Hal's slate of recent viewings: Saw X and Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
Sources and Links:
https://time.com/6092375/candyman-cabrini-green-true-story/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/realestate/what-is-redlining.htm
"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein
"American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass" by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton
"The Truly Disadvantaged" by William Julius Wilson - Visa fler
