Great Film, and the American Spirit | Brad Birzer
May 30, 2023
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Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film
a crash course in all the must-see movies and TV series that teach about justice, charity, and finding one’s place in the moral order
how the frontier, captured in Western film and movies, represents the possibilities that have embodied the American spirit
Texts Mentioned:
Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film by Brad Birzer
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
Beyond Tenebrae by Brad Birzer
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt
Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk
The Batman Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Friday Night Lights Fight (Revised)” by Peter Lawler
Stranger Things
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Watchmen by Alan Moore
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Tenet
Interstellar
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