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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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United 93 and World Trade Center

Paul Greengrass is United 93 and Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. Both films try to be as anti-Hollywood as possible, he says. The disaster is just turned into a kind of triumph, most notably in United 93. He argues that both films restrain not only from taking a political stance about the events but even from depicting their larger political contexts.

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