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Nicholas Cage steals the Declaration of Independence…and our hearts? (No.) Join us as we talk about nationalism, the adventure film genre, Riley’s goatee, and being egregiously ahistorical.
Note: We didn’t realize until we were about 20 minutes in that our recording program was using the wrong microphone for Merri. We stopped and fixed it, but the first chunk of the episode will sound a bit rougher than usual.
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The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones by Daniel A. Gross
Archaeologists in popular culture by Gabriel Moshenska
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Indiana Jones and Ben Gates: Imperial Heroes and the American Marvelous Post 9/11 by Joan Ormrod
Catch Hannibal at Mr Ripley’s Fight Club if you can: From Eurodecadent cinema to American nationalist allegory by Robert von Dassanowsky
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