Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe taught at the Sorbonne. His books include: Maverick or How The West Was Lost; Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood; and Class Crime, and International Film Noir: Globalizing America’s Dark Art. He is a film and television critic for “Arts Express” on the Pacifica Network in the U.S., for Art District Radio and Television in Paris and for the British websites Culture Matters and Crime Fiction Lover. His latest book is Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe

Culture

Red Vienna: The enduring legacy of an architecture of hope
January 8, 2020 By Dennis Broe
Europe’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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Arts

Decade of Asian cinema crowns 2019’s Top Ten Films
December 23, 2019 By Dennis Broe
There is an Asian pivot in global cinema which accompanies the economic strength of the region.
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Labor

Person of the Year: The French worker on strike
December 23, 2019 By Dennis Broe
The government is counting on the inconvenience wearing people down, but rather than being fed up with what is sometimes called an “entitled” working class, more people are joining the cause.
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Culture

500 shows and almost nothing to watch: 2019’s top ten TV series
December 19, 2019 By Dennis Broe
We have gone from what used to be called the Second Golden Age of Television to what is now referred to as “Peak TV.”
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World

Macron unites all French workers—against him and his pension “reforms”
December 10, 2019 By Dennis Broe
Following on the heels of his tax giveaway to the rich and his changes to labor law making it easier to fire workers, Macron's pension reform requires workers to work longer to earn the same pension...
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Culture

The times they are a-changing: The Venice Biennale and late capitalism
September 11, 2019 By Dennis Broe
May You Live in Interesting Times is the title and organizing principle of this year’s Venice Biennale, the every-other-year festival of contemporary art.
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Culture

Elections, coups and tax evaders: Venice Film Festival wrap-up
September 10, 2019 By Dennis Broe
Outside, police at the Venice Film Festival massed for a climate march that saw demonstrators swarm around the red carpet demanding action on climate devastation globally.
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Culture

The good, the bad and the ugly at Venice Film Festival 2019
September 4, 2019 By Dennis Broe
The film highlights the way the European high-level political and financial institutions are not about promoting but rather about neutralizing any democratic movement from below.
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