Titus Techera: Considering Bruce Willis
Download MP3Titus Techera, executive director of the American Cinema Foundation and cultural critic, joins WRFH to discuss the career of Bruce Willis, discussing how we should think about his work as an action star in the 1990s. Why did everyone love him as an action hero despite being an ordinary guy? How did he become an all-American hero, defending the nation against threats to citizenship? What big social & political problems were writers & directors were trying to warn America against in those films?
From 04/07/22.
Titus Techera, executive director of the American Cinema Foundation and cultural critic, joins WRFH to discuss the career of Bruce Willis, discussing how we should think about his work as an action star in the 1990s. Why did everyone love him as an action hero despite being an ordinary guy? How did he become an all-American hero, defending the nation against threats to citizenship? What big social & political problems were writers & directors were trying to warn America against in those films?
From 04/07/22.
