Gentlemen, today I bring you a podcast about the mad & dangerous side of life. My friend Geoff Schulenberger & I talked about the strange modernization of American cinema—from Hitchcock to De Palma to the neo-noir revival of the 80s & 90s, the most shocking example of which was Basic Instinct, i.e. the belief that man is a sexual beast, not a rational or a political animal. Somehow, our liberal politics fed a culture of anti-liberalism which invented or discovered very disturbing images lurking behind our public personae… We talk about poets & shrinks, split personalities, men & women, the transformation of America into a feminine regime, & the new sexless end-of-cinema situation, where there’s no eroticism & no art.
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