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To kick off Season 2, Stephen and McKenzie descend into the inky shadows of Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, a graphic novel adaptation so faithful it required Rodriguez to quit the DGA just to give Miller co-director credit. From the cherry-red pop of Dwight’s Converse to the monochrome moralities of Marv, Hartigan, and Gail’s army of dominatrix enforcers, we’re unpacking a film that’s equal parts visually stunning and thematically... complicated.
Topics include:
- Millerian morality and the myth of individualized virtue
- Hobbesian justice in a world without a Leviathan
- Performative masculinity and the "white knight" complex
- Nancy as the final girl whose trauma is dressed up as titillation
- Brittany Murphy appreciation (with ...
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