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110 Heart of Darkness – Then and Now
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Length:
100 minutes
Released:
Sep 18, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Jacke and Mike discuss Joseph Conrad’s short novel Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now, and Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. Then Jacke offers some thoughts on the recent events in Charlottesville, compares them with the themes in Conrad, and argues that America’s “new normal” might be best understood as an existential journey for the twenty-first century.
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Released:
Sep 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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