Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Strikes and financial tomfoolery highlight an alternative global fall TV season
September 20, 2021
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Culture
Series, series everywhere with no audience spared: What’s new in fall streaming
September 8, 2021If not the largest, it’s certainly “the most important” television festival in the world.
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Culture
Red lamb, black falcon: Balkanization and the capitalization of Croatia
August 23, 2021Rebecca West’s monumental reckoning and sophisticated exploration of these tensions in what was then Yugoslavia in the time leading up to World War II is titled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
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Books
The art of the (street) deal: More honest than Trump
August 18, 2021After seeing his business taken from him, Huey concludes that in a “country founded on capitalism” where “Black people were the first commodity sold on Wall Street…as soon as black people find a way to build...
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Culture
Streaming platforms vs. Media sovereignty: Netflix and others challenge national broadcasters
August 10, 2021The power of the American streamers is forcing national films and television series to dilute their content in order to also reach a global audience.
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Culture
Battle for the soul of popular media: COVID, Cannes, and conglomerates
August 2, 2021What Cannes tell us about the future of watching film in theaters, on TVs and on computers.
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Culture
Cannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage
July 22, 2021Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.
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Culture
Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity
July 12, 2021This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.
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