Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Top 25 series for 2022: Rising above the corporate glut
December 20, 2022In the wake of the near collapse of the major streaming services in 2022, and parallel to the wave of retrenchment and belt-tightening, series still trended toward homogenization.
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The business of streaming 2022: ‘The one where the whole thing nearly collapsed’
December 6, 2022The Big Three streaming companies, Disney+, Netflix and HBO, have all sustained losses in both subscribers and market valuation over the last year.
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Social realist TV: Escaping the corporate streaming bubble
November 15, 2022Each of these series in its own way counters both the big budget “metaverses” of the corporate streamers and the flashy and insincere casting of other series.
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The attack on Documenta 15: Whys and wherefores
October 3, 2022Documenta 15 has been unceasingly attacked by Western critics as being anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli.
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Collectivizing and yanking art out of its commodified prison: The ‘lumbung’ Documenta
September 29, 2022This two-part article will consider the impact of a monumental event in the art world.
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‘Ms. Marvel’: Politicizing the Multiverse and rendering it asunder
August 1, 2022This is a truly remarkable series and shows how the various “verses,” Facebook’s Meta- and Marvel’s Multi-, can be a space for an examination of social, cultural, and political fault lines rather than simply a commercial...
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‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’: China’s onscreen contesting of American aggression
July 25, 2022China continues to warn the U.S. about upping its level of aggression in a land that both the U.S. and China have affirmed for almost half a century is a part of China.
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‘Mr. Caruso Goes to Town’: Corporate developer remade as California common man
July 20, 2022In the current Los Angeles mayoral election, Rick Caruso, the wealthy developer of a number of Los Angeles projects, presents himself as a modern-day Deeds with all the homespun charm of Gary Cooper’s character in Capra’s...
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