AMC’s hit television show has brought some of the age-old questions about order and governance into popular consciousness, Justin Dell explains.
Tag: fiction
The United States Stands Alone: A Review of “Red Dawn” (1984)
In this film analysis, Justin Dell looks at the alternative history flick, “Red Dawn” (1984), and teases out some of the details of the movie that speak to the apocalyptic mood that existed in the early 1980s, when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were at their nadir. The film’s principal themes of readiness and sacrifice are as relevant to today’s world as they were 35 years ago.