Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel
April 12, 2022One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.
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World
France: Another victim of the endless war in Ukraine
April 8, 2022The most prominent immediate effect of the war has been an increase in an already rising inflation after French businesses raised prices coming out of the COVID confinement.
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Culture
Another European invasion: Corporate streamers and spring television preview
April 7, 2022The Dark Heart, a prizewinner at the festival that deserved its accolade, is a Swedish series about a controlling father who ravages the land and exerts his iron will over the town.
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Culture
The year in global streaming: Welcome to the Om(n)i(cron)verse
December 22, 2021The need to produce constant weekly product to match streaming competitors reached a level of frenzy this year.
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Culture
Fall global series review: From Black radicalism to British royals in space
October 4, 2021Most serious serial TV has moved online where there is no traditional “Fall TV Season,” that being a thing of the past - what did your parents used to call it? oh yeah, network TV.
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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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