Harold Cronk
Creator archive / 4 posts
Weimar/Nazi/evangelical films
A watch list for progressive masochists from Becca Rothfeld’s “The MAGA Theory of Art” in Art in America.
Just as Weimar and Nazi films pandered to white-collar workers who refused to confront a new economic reality, evangelical films pander to a rural class that clings to an outmoded notion of small-town affluence—and thereby to a bygone socio-economic order. They present the rural as a refuge from modernity, a realm that economic history has happily bypassed. To… See more →
God's Not Dead 2
God's Not Dead
They Photoshopped Adam’s junk out of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
God’s Not Dead. Heaven Is For Real. Are Christian film titles required to look at home hand-painted on the side of a barn by the interstate?