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Moral panics[edit]

Moral panic Main antagonist Fellow travelers Casualties Victor
Second red scare (late 1940s) Joseph McCarthy Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump (after the fact) Hollywood blacklist Spartacus (1960)
Comic books Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the InnocentWikipedia (1954) Comics Code Authority Free speech Underground comixWikipedia (1967)
War on Christmas (1959)[1] John Birch Society, American Family Association Santa Claus, Krampus Melania Trump (declared defeat in 2018) Retailers
The Comstock Act (1873) Anthony Comstock YMCA, NYPD Birth control, Literature, Sex education Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

Nihilism of everyday life[edit]

IP[edit]

Films[edit]

A list of films that that are both missional and have sufficient cinematic artistry to be worth watching at least once

Comedies[edit]

  • Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks — deals with racism in a subtly complex way, a take-down and homage of the Western film, worth rewatching
  • Dogma
  • Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick — a very dark comedy on nuclear war
  • The King of Hearts — an anti-war film set during World War I
  • Idiocracy — the decline and fall of America, suppressed by Fox
  • Life of Brian by Monty Python — a very naughty film
  • Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles

Dramas[edit]

  • A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick — an anti-war film

Akira Kurosawa films[edit]

  • Rashomon — deals with different perspectives of same brutal event (ripped off by Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring )
  • The Lower Depths — a very dark comedy (rescripting of Maxim Gorky's play)

Kurosawa's samurai films, often bleak, can be viewed through the lens of Japan's defeat in World War II

  • Seven Samurai
  • The Hidden Fortress (ripped off by Steven Spielberg's Star Wars)
  • Yojimbo (ripped off by Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars)

Documentaries[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]