1/ Today in Am. mem. of the Holocaust, we discussed the chapter "Astrofascism Across Time & Space" from @BrianECrim1 book Planet Auschwitz. Asked students to think through his Q:
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@BretDevereaux has pointed out that we increasingly see that setup in film as a *military formation* and not just for speech scenes.pic.twitter.com/V8CbNYGlVX
I keep meaning to come back to this motif and talk about it more. I think it is precisely how unnatural it is - crowds do not organize themselves like this - that makes it intimidating and then of course Triumph of the Will's film-school prominence encoded it as a film motif.
