I am right now a working Joe or a wage slave, but one day I will fulfill my true destiny as a sex pest professor.

Every working Joe consumer of media was a temporarily embarrassed sex pest professor.

Yeah, or the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Hello. or the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Hello, I'm Adrian Dobb.

And I'm We're Rodan.

Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.

So, Adrian, today we have another installment in our ongoing series about a little genre that we like to call the cinema of cancellation.

Yes, and if this is the first you're hearing of it,

it's because a lot of it has happened behind a paywall.

A lot of this has been us letting our proverbial freak flag fly on Patreon.

So this is a genre that we've gotten interested in,

that we've been sort of tracing,

but maybe first we should be precise about what we mean by the cinema of cancellation, which is this mini genre and or set of tropes that can come up in other contexts. Some of these are comedies, some of these are dramas, some of these are biopics, etc., etc. But I think the way I would describe it is cinema of cancellation tends to center a single genius, single creator, single director

stand in, whoever could plausibly stand in for a director, and their misadventures with

modern media, social morris, and moral reckonings of all kinds.

These films overwhelmingly take place on campuses, not exclusively, right? There are some

notable outliers to the genre, like tar, which doesn't have anything to do with a campus, really,

but they tend to be focused on campus politics, which is part of why we're interested in them,

but also they

tend to focus on like elite institutions, right? These are films that are self-consciously about a small

group of rarefied people. And they usually center a famous person of some kind or an important

person of some kind, a big professor, a actor, or in the case of Tar, a conductor,

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