Michael and Us: The Informer
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
After he named names for Joseph McCarthy, Elia Kazan made a movie about an informer. We watched ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), one of the great American films by the most famous American rat, and discuss its personal meaning for Kazan, and the historical context behind its powerful depiction of working-class New York. PLUS: a free-flowing discussion of celebrity and politics.
"Revisiting On the Waterfront" by Kathy M. Newman - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/revisiting-on-the-waterfront/
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| 0:00.0 | And the The Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloane, here is always with. |
| 0:30.7 | Luke Savage, good morning, Saturday morning everyone. |
| 0:34.4 | Or at least that's when we're recording. |
| 0:36.4 | How are you doing well? |
| 0:37.4 | I'm all right, feeling pretty relaxed. |
| 0:39.0 | I got my dog here next to me. |
| 0:41.2 | He's a good boy. We have some pretty exciting |
| 0:43.5 | anniversaries coming up. This week is actually the 10th anniversary of the |
| 0:47.1 | rally to restore sanity. I didn't want that to pass without it being |
| 0:51.0 | acknowledged. You pointed out an exciting anniversary to me though that may be a little bit more relevant to the topic of this week's episode. |
| 0:57.6 | Well hang on I don't think you're treating the rally to restore sanity with the reverence that it deserves because you know it was 10 years ago we restored sanity it was 10 years ago that the foul scourge of partisanship was finally buried once and for all |
| 1:10.6 | whether it's 9-11 truthers or racist or Marxist. |
| 1:15.0 | What was it? |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, that was, yeah, it was in Stewart's kind of closing riff. |
| 1:20.3 | It was Tea Party fanatics or something and racists and or Marxists who want to |
| 1:27.8 | destroy the Constitution. |
| 1:29.8 | And you know they almost did. |
| 1:31.6 | We got them. Equally sinister antagonists in American life, but fortunately, sanity was restored and we've moved on. |
| 1:38.4 | Uh, yeah, no, the other anniversary here, New York Daily News headline on this day, that is the day we're recording October the 24th, in 1947, |
| 1:47.0 | Walt Disney appeared for the House Un-American Activities Committee. |
| 1:51.0 | New York Daily News headline, Communist tried to capture Mickey Mouse, says... activities committee |
| 1:55.0 | of un-American activities that communist once took over his studio. |
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