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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      6. Jaws is heavily influenced by Moby Dick, which (as CLR James rightly notes) shows danger of autocrat (Ahab) ruling democratic mass (crew)

      3 replies 8 retweets 62 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      7. For James, Moby Dick contain both the promise of modernity (democratic crew) & danger (fascist leader backed by capital taking command)

      1 reply 4 retweets 50 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      8. Classes in Jaws: mayor (discredited big business), Quint (small business), Hooper (technocratic capitalism), Brody (white working class)

      2 replies 6 retweets 55 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      9. The mayor (big business) obvious villain but Quint is also, more complexly, rejected. He's old America, heroic but also Ahab-like mad.

      2 replies 3 retweets 37 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      10. The older America embodied by Quint admirable in many ways but not up to challenges of defeating shark (i.e. failure in Vietnam).

      1 reply 3 retweets 37 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      11. So the Mayor is political & capitalist corruption (Watergate & other scandals) while Quint is military failure (Vietnam)

      2 replies 5 retweets 43 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      12. As against failures of mayor & Quint, new alliance of technocratic big business (Hooper as Rockefeller) & working class (Brody).

      2 replies 3 retweets 32 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      13. Brody is key figure: cop who fled crime-ridden New York for supposed safety of resort (white flight) but has to re-masculinize to fight

      4 replies 2 retweets 35 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      14. Jaws belongs to cluster of 1970s movies where vacations & male bonding go bad: Deliverance, Westworld, Deer Hunter.

      6 replies 9 retweets 66 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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      15. What these vacations-gone-bad movies show, I think, is that America can't afford to retreat into luxury, it's still a dangerous world.

      3 replies 7 retweets 61 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016

      16. It's the alliance of the technocrat with the re-energized white working class (no longer in flight but ready to fight) that wins.

      11:22 AM - 27 Nov 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2016
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          17. It doesn't map perfectly but there's an element of truth to this.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/802954825268760576 …

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          Ross DouthatVerified account @DouthatNYT
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          So you're saying "Jaws" is about the rise of Bill Clinton.
          7 replies 4 retweets 34 likes
        3. Kevin Boueri |‏ @ChevreBoueri 27 Nov 2016
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          This is certainly a better film analysis than anything Zizek has ever put out.

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