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 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.” That book by this author posits that Joanna’s “37 pieces of flair” 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 (10[1])for Russell Brand in the 2013 essay “Exiting the Vampire Castle.” (10[1])For 10 points, what author of Capitalist Realism wrote film analyses using the alias k-punk? ■END■ (0[2])

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