Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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France bans citizens from filming and identifying violent police officers
November 25, 2020Report from France: Shooting the messenger, especially the one who’s filming you.
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‘Lovecraft Country’: Liberating 1950s apartheid America one monster at a time
November 20, 2020It’s now a done deal with the series already out in its entirety, but the best pilot and one of the best shows of the year is HBO’s Lovecraft Country.
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Today’s noir novel in Europe: Popular novelists from France and Iceland
October 13, 2020Dominique Manotti is a Parisian professor of economic history who writes about crime from a historical and global perspective.
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‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’
September 15, 2020All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.
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‘Fearless’ and ‘Perry Mason’: How to end and not end a season
August 27, 2020There was a lot of fanfare recently around the wrapping up of HBO’s remake of Perry Mason, which unfortunately has a botched ending.
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‘Black Suns’ at Louvre Lens: Coal mines transformed into gift shops
August 21, 2020This transformation is strikingly visible in the setting in which the painting is displayed, that is, in Lens’s transformation from mining to museum economy.
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‘Green Frontier’ and ‘Wild District’: Bolivarian vs. Bolsonarian revolution
August 19, 2020Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both done by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the left and right of Colombian politics.
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Comcast and NBC Universal’s Peacock: A strange bird
July 31, 2020These “hyperconglomerates,” media giants combining telecommunications, satellite systems, and digital delivery and transmissions, are often reactionary in nature.
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