Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Serial TV and the global drug pandemic
June 24, 2020This is a very mixed series by an extraordinary filmmaker who has brought both his creative talents and his political baggage to television.
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World
Statues also die as racist memorials come down in Europe
June 15, 2020The first week of European and particularly French and Francophone protests in the wake of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement concerned parallel police actions against French minorities.
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Culture
Serial TV and indignities of class: ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Normal People,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’
June 2, 2020One of the effects of the coronavirus crisis is the accentuation of already exacerbated class differences.
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Culture
Money for nothing and gold for free on Netflix and Spanish TV
May 27, 2020Netflix has bet heavily on Spanish film and television, most likely after the European and global success of Money Heist, having set up their European headquarters in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
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Culture
Quibbling with Quibi: Considerations on the new platform of ‘quick bite’ entertainment
May 19, 2020Quibi, which stands for Quick Bites—bursts of entertainment, none more than 10 minutes and most less, designed for mobile phone use on the go—launched in the U.S. in early April in the midst of the quarantine.
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Culture
‘Home Before Dark’ and fading patriarchal power
May 12, 2020It’s the first masterful series from Apple TV+.
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Culture
ZeroZeroZero and the global drug trade; #BlackAF and Black affluence
May 7, 2020ZeroZeroZero, a Sky, Canal+ and Amazon series based on the Roberto (Gomorrah) Saviano book, has two things on its mind.
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Culture
‘Babylon Berlin’ and origin of German fascism; ‘Superstore’ in age of Amazon
April 27, 2020A very strong aspect of 'Babylon Berlin' is that it does not reduce German fascism to Hitler, but instead depicts the much broader currents of the society that support it, including the aforesaid banks and investors...
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