The Reagan era has bequeathed to us much, including, ironically, a new version of the materialist theory of the politics of culture. The essential claim of this theory is seductively simple: cultural expression reproduces, through all the appropriate “mediations,” the …
“I keep thinking,” Michael Herr writes in Dispatches, “about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped out for good. . . . We’d all seen too many …
Cecelia sits alone in the middle of the nearly empty theater. She is wearing her old brown coat and matching hat. She holds a small bag of popcorn which she pecks at in a distracted way. But in her face …
When I was growing up in a small town outside of Detroit, I spent the usual amount of time playing war games. The one I remember best was a non-nuclear, domestic version of an imaginary “World War III,” pitting me …
