An Experiment in Disrespecting the Troops: Dead of Night

|Doug Carmoody| The patriotic imperative to “support the troops” grew, like many other national neuroses, from America’s inability to reckon with the moral failures of the Vietnam War. To counter anti-war sentiment, the U.S. political establishment boosted effusive parades to “Support… Continue reading

They’re Coming to Get You (if You’re Black in PA)!

A billboard reads on one 'Whites are under attack stop it now!!!' and on the other, 'STOP teaching critical race theory to our kids.'

| Kit Stookey | Night of the Living Dead plays at the Trylon Cinema Wednesday, September 24th. For tickets, showtimes, and other series information, visit trylon.org. It is common wisdom that any given piece of media says more about the period in which it was produced than the period it… Continue reading

God Bless This Mess: Vietnam, The Monkey’s Paw, and Dead of Night

Andy, a white male in a military uniform, grins in the dark, next to a diamond shaped window against a green wall. There are two plates with paintings on them on a side wall

| Wil McMillen | Dead of Night aka. Deathdream plays at the Trylon Cinema Wednesday, September 24th. For tickets, showtimes, and other series information, visit trylon.org. “My brother came home yesterday From somewhere far away He doesn’t look like I remember As he stares off into space He must’ve seen… Continue reading