Death is a Photograph

Season 1, Gen X — Episode 35 — American Movie (1999)

Death is a Photograph

Show Notes

DPP is back, baby — and this time for an encore. Chase and Sam thought they'd round out the season — find a 'capstone', if you will — for the last year. That pediment takes the form of Chris Smith's fly-on-the-wall documentary American Movie (1999).

What does it mean to aspire towards creative production as a provincial dreamer-cum-slacker? What was left of the American dream as the clock ticked over and a new millennium began?

Find out in today's episode.

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