{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Film Comment Podcast","title":"Top Gun and Nationalist Cinema with Blair McClendon and Ed Halter","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3352,"description":"Today’s podcast is spurred by something Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish wrote in her dispatch from Cannes a few weeks ago: “the undeniable thrills and pleasures of Top Gun: Maverick … are not entirely separable from the American-exceptionalist fervor of its narrative or the military resources poured into its making. It isn’t “a good film but with bad politics”; it’s a good film in part because of its bad politics.” \n\nThis thought was the catalyst for on ongoing conversation about the questions Tom Cruise’s world-dominating blockbuster raises—about nationalistic movies, star power, and the responsibilities of criticism and cinephilia. So this week, Devika and her fellow Co-Deputy Editor Clinton Krute invited two ideal interlocutors to join the conversation and help pick apart the Top Gun phenomenon: editor and critic Blair McClendon, and Ed Halter, whose brilliant review of the sequel appeared in 4Columns.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bI_2iU8AwjxinzV-q0ji4Pt8uwI1EFv8xC6xgBwq6I4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iYzUz/ZjQ5ZWNmNzFjNjY1/NWNkZTBhZjdhMGU4/NzgzYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}