Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
‘Jordskott’ and ecological horror; ‘One Day at a Time’ revived
April 7, 2020The Swedish series with the mysterious title Jordskott is an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.
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Culture
‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’
April 6, 2020The best network series in what might be a coronavirus-abbreviated season is ABC’s For Life, a combination prison/courtroom drama about an innocent African-American inmate sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Culture
‘Bad Banks’: Global misbehavior in the German financial system; and ‘Nancy Drew’
March 30, 2020Season One of Bad Banks depicted the mad speculation at Deutsche Invest prior to the 2008 subprime crisis as Jena Liekam, the young financial climber and her two colleagues managed to abscond with a couple of...
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World
Corona culture: Europe and the new normal
March 27, 2020After its outbreak in China, Europe had been called the new epicenter of the disease, and particularly Western Europe.
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Culture
‘Taken Down’ and the underbelly of the Irish economic miracle
March 16, 2020The rise of Ireland to a European economic powerhouse was fueled initially by a housing boom which then crashed in the wake of the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble.
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Culture
On the global television beat: Robin Hood in the neoliberal age
March 11, 2020The last studio big-budget Robin with Russell Crowe had Robin himself as a baron who saves England and guarantees it for the other barons.
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Culture
Steven Knight’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Dickens in the age of neoliberalism
February 11, 2020This episode points out, as do the others, the ruthlessness of a society based on competition, control and confinement.
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Culture
Red Vienna: The enduring legacy of an architecture of hope
January 8, 2020Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities as those with capital in places such as Munich, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are borrowing at no cost and buying up apartments.
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