Round 4: Tossup 11

This author joked that “Neil McCauley” is a “fake passport” name in a comparison of the “polished” crime in Michael Mann’s Heat and the “local color” of The Godfather. This author (15[1])wrote that the climaxes of The Parallax View and The Truman Show “rhyme” in a passage decrying the diffuseness of responsibility that led to tragedies like Hillsborough. A book by this author opens by noting that unlike other apocalypse films like V for Vendetta, the “catastrophe in Children of Men” is “being lived through.” (15[2])That book by this author posits that Joanna’s (-5[1])“37 pieces of flair” (15[1])from Office Space exemplify the takeover of “creativity” by (*) Control societies. This author explored films like Inland Empire, The Shining, and Under the Skin in the book The Weird and the Eerie. This author expressed admiration for Russell Brand (-5[1])in the 2013 essay “Exiting the Vampire Castle.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what author of Capitalist (10[1])Realism wrote film analyses using the alias k-punk? ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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