Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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The attack on Documenta 15: Whys and wherefores
October 3, 2022Documenta 15 has been unceasingly attacked by Western critics as being anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli.
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Collectivizing and yanking art out of its commodified prison: The ‘lumbung’ Documenta
September 29, 2022This two-part article will consider the impact of a monumental event in the art world.
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‘Ms. Marvel’: Politicizing the Multiverse and rendering it asunder
August 1, 2022This is a truly remarkable series and shows how the various “verses,” Facebook’s Meta- and Marvel’s Multi-, can be a space for an examination of social, cultural, and political fault lines rather than simply a commercial...
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‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’: China’s onscreen contesting of American aggression
July 25, 2022China continues to warn the U.S. about upping its level of aggression in a land that both the U.S. and China have affirmed for almost half a century is a part of China.
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‘Mr. Caruso Goes to Town’: Corporate developer remade as California common man
July 20, 2022In the current Los Angeles mayoral election, Rick Caruso, the wealthy developer of a number of Los Angeles projects, presents himself as a modern-day Deeds with all the homespun charm of Gary Cooper’s character in Capra’s...
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How to organize a union: ‘The Porter’ and Black service industry militancy
July 6, 2022A joint production of the public Canadian Broadcasting Company and BET+, 'The Porter,' about the organization of the first Black union in North America, is exactly the series we need right now.
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Plains, trains and automobiles: ‘Snowpiercer’ vs. ‘Lincoln Lawyer’
June 28, 2022How can we contrast Snowpiercer’s people’s transport vs. Lincoln Lawyer’s luxuriating while the planet burns?
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Meet Juan Guaidó: Capra’s Depression-era comedy replayed as imperial farce
June 23, 2022The scenario in Frank Capra's 1941 classic 'Meet John Doe' started replaying a few years ago as the U.S. anointed from nowhere and utterly out of the blue their Latin American John Doe, Juan Guaidó.
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