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The First Purge (2018)
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FILMS MENTIONED THIS EPISODE
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The First Purge (2018)
The Purge (2013)
The Tall Man (2012)
The Experiment (2010)
It Comes at Night (2017)
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Lost in London (2017)
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TOPIC INDEX – The First Purge (2018) – Part 1
3:00 – Our histories with the Purge films
3:34 – Laura’s reactions to her first Purge film especially race
9:00 – Opening with the “angry black man” stereotype
12:38 – Intersectionality
13:13 – Comparing NFFA and Nazi party logo
15:55 – Bernie Sanders
16:44 – Comparisons to our episode on Laugier’s The Tall Man
18:04 – The power of movies to change minds?
20:13 – Racial history of the Purge films
22:16 – Laura’s ideological opposition
22:36 – Othering
25:49 – Character continuum
29:51 – Disappointing women gender portrayals
31:29 – Recent history has not treated Laura’s arguments well and The Tall Man episode
32:44 – Currently purging
32:55 – Fact check on Marshall’s claim about popularity of raising taxes on the wealthy
36:03 to 44:05 – Milgram’s obedience to authority and Zimbardo’s prison experiment
43: 15 – Buried by the Times by Laural Leff
52:00 – Life expectancy by race
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