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Assassination Nation (2018)
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Assassination Nation (2018)
Carrie (1976)
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Death Sentence (2007)
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TOPIC INDEX – Assassination Nation (2018)
0:00 – Introduction
2:03 – Begin movie discussion
8:36 – Overall takes
9:06 – Nudity
13:42 – Kilbourne from Killing Us Softly 4 (2010)
18:49 – Pornographization versus self-sexualization and sexual desire
21:25 – Young women receiving oral sex
29:24 – Our culture and sociologists are (still) failing young women; also young women’s empowerment
37:20 – Character Continuum – Lily as a fully developed character
43:26 – Becks and empathy
53:12 – Politics, empathy, and hypocrisy
1:02:43 – The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
1:06:38 – Trigger warning introductory sequence
1:09:24 – Film structure and pace
1:09:59 – Multitasking
1:10:49 – Text messages
1:12:03 – More character continuum – Who is punished and how
1:15:31 – Rubin’s fallacy of misplaced scale.
Guide to Rubin’s article here.
Rubin, Gayle. 1984. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in Carole Vance, ed., Pleasure and Danger. Routledge. Full article available here.
1:17:06 – The single take house sequence
1:18:05 – Carrie (1976) references
1:18:41 – Chanting, “We are good people!”
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