Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Social realist TV: Escaping the corporate streaming bubble
November 15, 2022Each of these series in its own way counters both the big budget “metaverses” of the corporate streamers and the flashy and insincere casting of other series.
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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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