Death is a Photograph

Fear the coming of the trilby. Yes, that's right — today, in the last episode of our first season, we're looking at Gen X accelerating towards middle age and a crash encounter with those coming up behind them...

Patreon here. It's the early 2000s in Mexico — and everyone is feelin' fine. The PRI's uninterrupted one-party 71-year reign of social-democratic, but also neoliberal, authoritarian incompetence is over. The insanity of...

Patreon here. This week, DP heads south. South to Chile — a nation which ended its military junta and dictatorship through an advertising-powered referendum just as the Cold War was ending. Could there be material...

Patreon here .  This week DPP delves into Guy Ritchie's feature debut Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). What did the 1990s rebirth of Cockney-cool during the Blair era mean for Gen X? How did London feel...

Patreon and full episode here. In the second of DPP's special book episodes, Sam and Chase interview Yale Law and History professor Samuel Moyn on his new book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old are Hoarding Power and...

Patreon here. This week, DPP explores the cult film — Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered (2001). Panned at the time by venerable critics like Roger Ebert — Freddy Got Fingered has only grown in influence in the last two...

<p>Patreon here.</p><p>This week, DPP explores the cult film — Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered (2001).</p><p>Panned at the time by venerable critics like Roger Ebert — Freddy Got Fingered has only grown in influence in...

<p>Patreon here.</p><p>This week, the DPP lads head east — to the wild years of Russia in the 1990s after the fall of communism.</p><p>That's right — we're talking about 1997's gangster coming-of-age feature Brat by...

<p>DPP ventures into the North Chicago suburbs as it broaches its first John Hughes film — Sixteen Candles (1984).</p><p>What does adolescence look like in the affluent upper middle classes for Gen X? What role does the...

<p>Patreon here. </p><p>This week, the DPP boys check out Reginald Hudlin's 1990 House Party.</p><p>The film launched a long-running series of coming-of-age comedies under the House Party title, terminating in...

<p>To access the full episode — subscribe to our Patreon. </p><p>In the first of DPP's special book episodes, Sam interviews Oxford politics lecturer and NYT contributing writer Anton Jäger on his new book...

<p>Patreon is here. </p><p>Today's DPP episode explores the little-known 1994 feature by multi-media artist Jessica Hagedorn – Fresh Kill.</p><p>Recycling, sushi, yuppies, toxic waste, nameless megacorporations, ethical...

<p>Find our patreon here. </p><p>The DPP boys were picking through the flea markets of Berlin — looking for Trabant car parts and old jars of Spreewaldgurken. In amongst the clutter, we came across a dusty videotape —...

<p>Like, rate, and subscribe at our patreon – here. </p><p>This week, DPP delve into the high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). The film, directed by Amy Heckerling and based on the gonzo reporting of...

<p>Chase is solo on this episode with guest Andrew Young to discuss i ♥ huckabees, an under-the-radar feature film by early Gen-X wunderkind David O. Russell.</p><p>NIMBYism, environmentalism, cod-psychology, adolescent...