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Children of Men (w/ Chris Myers)

Movies vs. Capitalism

CHAPTER

The Meta Version of Magic Mike

The concept of Capitalist Realism is basically the assumption that capitalism is the only possible form of economic organization. This is best summed up by the famous quote by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, "There is no alternative" It's something that we've talked about before and something we wanted to address in this podcast specifically, the concept of performative anti-capitalism as it relates to film.

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