Fascism at 24 frames per second: onscreen representations of the Presidency in Trump's America

american horror story is getting great milage out of president trump this season

i've never seen ahs - what's the deal this season?

I feel like we could very easily see a string of just the kind of bland graying white-guy movie presidents we're all familiar with, who are always popular and will both be reassuring to a certain strain of bland graying white guy put off by Trump, and available for Trump fans to project their fearless leader onto even though he looks and acts nothing like them. See all those cartoons where he's drawn as combination He-Man and Fabio. There's a line from Bill Pullman's fighter pilot president in Independence Day (via W, who obviously wanted very badly to be this guy, and was for a lot of people) to the way Trump is fantasized about. Plus, movie presidents almost never deal with anything *political* - they're projections of national identity and national masculinity, so they shoot down aliens and punch out terrorists on Air Force One.

Obviously there will be a few films with women and/or POC in the role. These will be viciously attacked as Hollywood liberalism run amok by thousands of twitter bots who have not seen the films, which will mostly be about robot asteroids tunneling up from the earth's core, directly under the White House. This in turn will be garbled into a metaphor for immigration.

xpost I haven't watched it yet, but based on the trailer it looks like they're dealing pretty directly with the election of Trump as an American horror story.

Surprised there's no mention here of Designated Survivor, which began before Trump's election, but even early on had story lines about fascist governors rounding up immigrants. Even though Keifer is an "independent outsider" he's obviously a liberal wonk.

If anyone wants to write an in-depth study (in maybe a couple of years, when there's enough perspective to get the lay of the land) of serialized entertainment that existed prior to November of 2016 and the ways in which it's changed in response to the world in which it's now being created, I will preorder that book right now.

frank miller, the joker AND trump? what could possibly go wrong

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Frank Miller swore off being a right-wing shithead, didn't he? Or did I imagine that

this is a pro-trump, pro-joker, pro-murder comic. and if you don't like it you're a snowflake.