{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 11: Civil War","description":"In episode 11 of (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Ajay and Isi examine Alex Garland\u2019s Civil War (2024). Kicking off with a handful of pop culture news items\u2014including the Met Gala, the death of Steve Albini, A24\u2019s Stop Making Sense tribute album, and Apple's alarming iPad Pro commercial\u2014the conversation turns to Garland\u2019s provocative and uneven drama about a group of photojournalists traveling through a war-torn United States. Ajay and Isi discuss the perils of directors commenting on their own works, the film\u2019s inadvertent critique of combat photographers, \u201cPortland Maoists,\u201d Garland\u2019s allusions to significant 20th century photojournalists (Robert Capa, Lee Miller, Gerda Taro, the Bang Bang Club), reactionary aesthetics, and the vernacular of American violence. Central to the conversation are perennial questions about the mediation of war through film and photography; the circulation and reception of images of violence; and how to make a film about war that neither glamorizes nor sentimentalizes it. ","author_name":"(Pop) Cultural Marxism","author_url":"http:\/\/thebrooklyninstitute.com","html":"