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SOURCES
James Davidson Hunter, "Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America" (1992) culture war
Omar Sanchez, “Joker Director Todd Phillips Rebuffs Criticism of Dark Tone: We Didn’t Make the Movie to Push Buttons” TheWrap (Sept. 28, 2019)
Scott Marks, “Sorry to Bother You Review,” San Diego Reader (July 2018)
J.R. Kinnard, “Jordan Peele’s Us is full of ideas - and flaws,” (March 2019)
Matthew Erao, “Canto Bight Belonged In The Star Wars Prequels,” (December 2017)
Gene Park, “Fallout 76 just gave people a reason to play The Outer Worlds instead” (October 2019)
Slavoj Zizek, "Pervert's Guide to Ideology" Pure Ideology (2012)
MUSIC
Rock And Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter
Lily's Dance by Million Eyes
Where Do We Begin by Farrell Wooten
Waltz for Celia by Leimoti
A Mental Breakdown (Instrumental Version) by Sven Karlsson
Wedding Waltz by Traditional
Night Bells by By Lotus
Contemporary Confusion by Cody High
Smooth Joker by T. Morri
Catch The Wave (Instrumental Version) by Velvet Moon
After the Fall by Max Anson
Revolt by Luwaks
Oh What A Whirl by Jules Gaia
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Joker is good. It’s good good good. It’s so good I dressed like this, despite the fact you will take me about 30% less seriously for “dressing as Joker for Halloween.” And no, I am not going to sit here and tell you you have to like Joker. I don’t think that. But oooooooooooh boy is it good! It’s so good, right wing people are trying to claim it, and they’re so wrong about the film it doesn’t even deserve addressing. Let’s just say their brains are in recovery mode from taking in so many high-level ideas.
More importantly, I think a lot of criticism of the film - not all, but a lot… most of it - is ideological performance, whether the critics doing it know it or not. In fact, that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
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