Marcuse, Foucault, and The Purge: Film Review
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2016-12-03
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Virginia Tech Publishing
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James DeMonaco’s 2013 horror film The Purge, which imagines a near-future America in which a fascist government declares all crime (including murder) legal for one night a year, received generally bad reviews. Most reviewers overlooked how the film speaks to the relationship between desire and power in modern civilization...
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Abraham, J., 2016. Marcuse, Foucault, and The Purge: Film Review. Spectra, 5(2). DOI: http://doi.org/10.21061/spectra.v5i2.374