Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Lear on the highway: Albert Maltz’s ‘The Journey of Simon McKeever’
December 18, 2024The scriptwriter, novelist, and blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten Albert Maltz was around 40 himself when he wrote his novel on aging, The Journey of Simon McKeever, first published in 1949.
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Culture
2024 streaming biz: Bracing for AI and deregulation as the media challenge
December 17, 2024The main story in streaming and in television is the new preponderance of Artificial Intelligence, as its use by the film and television industry threatens not only employees but also the older established moguls’ and brands’...
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Culture
2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (2)
December 16, 2024Here are more examples of the best and worst in global television this year.
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Culture
2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (1)
December 11, 2024It’s been a strange television season. The general trend, continuing from last year, is trimming and cutting back as the streamers realize that streaming, though here to stay, is not the manna from heaven they thought...
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Books
Rediscovering radical Palestinian cinema as hope for today and the future
October 2, 2024The title of Terri Ginsberg’s monograph Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema hardly hints at the theoretical breadth and depth of the work which is incredibly prescient in these perilous...
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Culture
Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 2
July 25, 2024Nowhere is this hardening of the once playful strategy of reflexivity more apparent than in corporate media news which instead of alternating between illusion and reflexivity is instead utterly delusional while sealing itself off in a...
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Culture
Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 1
July 24, 2024Here media reflexivity and post-colonialism go hand in hand, with both operating to sustain Western power as that power is rapidly decaying and becoming increasingly irrelevant.
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Opinion
Macron’s neoliberalism moved country toward fascist abyss, leading to left’s surge in support
July 12, 2024A clear trend in the election was that the French are fed up with Macron’s neoliberal “reforms.”
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