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Jul 23, 2012 · In short, The Dark Knight Rises posits a conflict between the form of fascism some Americans currently favor, and a strawman version of their imagined opponents, and places the center of moral...
Sep 4, 2012 · I begin at this tangent to try to short-circuit a trend in debates about Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises: the idea that the film is a thinly veiled attack on Occupy (which is assumed to epitomize emancipatory radicalism).
Jul 29, 2022 · Indeed, The Dark Knight Rises is not a narrowly drawn critique of the Occupy movement but is better understood as a full-blown critique of populism in general—and, more accurately, of the...
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Jul 23, 2012 · It’s no exaggeration to say that the “Dark Knight” universe is fascistic (and I’m not name-calling or claiming that Nolan has Nazi sympathies). It’s simply a fact.
Jul 28, 2023 · The death of Dent, mistakenly seen as the virtuous ‘protector’ of Gotham, turned him into a symbolic martyr. A dangerous hypocrisy lies at the heart of Nolan’s Gotham by the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises, which recalls more than anything the French Revolution.
Jul 21, 2023 · The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan’s 2012 superhero follow-up, was all over the shop politically. It takes pains to deconstruct the fascist vigilante myth of its predecessor while also skewering ...
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Jul 18, 2012 · The finale to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy has the caped crusader battling a brute villain posing as the leader of a modern-day French revolution. Critic David Edelstein says the film has...
