Episode 41: The Damned (1969) | Fascism and Italian filmmakers
We begin a new three episode series on Italian filmmakers and their depictions of fascism. We start with Luchino Visconti's 1969 film THE DAMNED about an industrialist German family and the depravity they engage in as they navigate a working relationship with the ascendant Third Reich. Discussion also includes:
Homosexuality during the rise of the Nazis;
The United Auto Workers who are suing Trump and Elon;
Alachua County's efforts to divest from corporate interests;
The Alien franchise and why it's great.
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Sources and Links
Robert Beachy’s 2010 article “The German Invention of Homosexuality” in the Journal of Modern History
Samuel Clowes Huneke’s 2019 article “Death Wish: Suicide and Stereotype in the Gay Discourses of Imperial and Weimar Germany” in New German Critique
Susan Sontag’s 1989s chapter “Fascinating Fascism” from Under the Sign of Saturn
Erich Fromm’s 1964 article “Creators and Destroyers” in The Saturday Review
Eleanor Hancock’s 1998 article “'Only the Real, the True, the Masculine Held Its Value": Ernst Rohm, Masculinity, and Male Homosexuality” in Journal of the History of Sexuality.
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