Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Writers and actors challenge the corporate lords of film and television
July 28, 2023One of the main claims of the writers is that they can no longer afford to live in a city they helped build as Los Angeles rents skyrocket.
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Apocalyptic TV and climate change: Don’t worry, be glum, part 2
July 5, 2023The final lesson of Snowpiercer is that if the world is shorn of its capitalist billionaires, its various and diverse peoples will find compromises that can yet save humanity.
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Apocalyptic TV and global warming: Don’t worry, be glum
June 30, 2023Fredric Jameson’s famous dictum that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” has been taken up wholeheartedly by the makers of corporate television.
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The global crime novel: Worldwide corruption and chiseling
May 16, 2023Age of Vice is also about developers profiting in this new “modern” India as whole settlements of the poorest are removed from the Yamuna riverbank in Delhi.
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After the peak: As financial crisis expands, so does the streaming TV wasteland
May 3, 2023The writers are fighting back with the time-honored weapon of the strike, but expect lower quality, more conservative TV in the future.
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Diana Dors v. Marilyn Monroe: Class, crime, and the ‘Blonde Bombshell’
March 1, 2023An offering for Women's History Month.
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Where have all the comedians gone? Just asking…
February 13, 2023
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Dispatch from war-torn Europe: A pared-down Vienna Christmas-New Year
January 31, 2023In more subtle ways Europe in general, and Austria’s capital city in particular, is showing signs of deterioration.
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