Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Catherine of Siena (person) 1 — Saint depicted in various paintings from different centuries

Giovanni Batista Tiepolo (person) 1 — Artist who painted St. Catherine of Siena in 1746

Siegfried Sassoon (person) 1 — British poet known for war poetry, author of 'Suicide in the Trenches' (1918).

TF2 (concept) 1 — Team Fortress 2 video game where user played in competitive tournaments

CSGO (concept) 1 — Counter-Strike: Global Offensive video game where user reached high rank

Footprints on the Moon (film) 1 — A mystery-thriller-giallo film about a translator who wakes up with three days of missing memory and travels to an islan...

Kotkin (person) 1 — Author of a book about the USSR power struggle after Lenin

Hildegard of Bingen (person) 1 — Medieval mystic and religious figure mentioned as someone who spoke to God and whose legacy remains 900 years later.

Hate, Inc. (book) 1 — Book by Matt Taibbi providing an accessible description of the corporate media landscape.

Her (2013) (film) 1 — Film described as unsettling and horror-like, nearly causing a panic attack for the viewer.

Second Story Books (place) 1 — A large warehouse bookstore in Rockville with used books at good prices, cited as the one good thing about DC suburbs

Andre Breton (person) 1 — Surrealist artist and writer who proclaimed a provocative statement about violence as a Surrealist act.

Lana Del Ray (person) 1 — Artist referenced in a joke about gay stereotypes

Coleridge (person) 1 — Poet whose three short poems were being read by the r/rsbookclub book club.

Edgar Allen Poe (person) 1 — Author whose raven poem was written about Charles Dickens' pet raven.

Symposium (book) 1 — Platonic dialogue about love and eros featuring speeches by various philosophers.

Catullus (person) 1 — Roman poet known for love poetry, mentioned for his verses about Juventius.

Paulo Freire (person) 1 — Author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, discussed in context of anti-consumerism.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (book) 1 — Book by Paulo Freire discussed in context of recognizing consumerist contradictions.

Parent Trap (film) 1 — 1998 film with cinematography by Dean Cundey and music by Alan Silvestri, praised for its warm golden atmospheric lighti...

Dean Cundey (person) 1 — Cinematographer of Parent Trap (1998), noted for capturing warm golden childhood lighting.

Alan Silvestri (person) 1 — Composer who created the music for Parent Trap (1998).

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (book) 1 — Freud's work on parapraxes and slips, recommended reading for understanding psychoanalysis.

On Narcissism (book) 1 — Freud's essay on narcissism, recommended for understanding psychoanalytic theory.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (book) 1 — Freud's work on death drive and repetition compulsion, recommended reading.

Michael Medved (person) 1 — Conservative film critic who authored Hollywood vs. America, criticized for arguing media depicts harmful content.

Hollywood vs. America (book) 1 — 1992 book by Michael Medved arguing that movies and popular culture depicting violence and sex increased crime.

Christopher Ames (person) 1 — Author of Movies about the Movies who criticized Michael Medved's analysis of film violence.

Movies about the Movies (book) 1 — Book by Christopher Ames that criticized Michael Medved's simplistic analysis of screen violence.

Safe in the Hands of Love (album) 1 — Album by Yves Tumor that preceded Heaven To A Tortured Mind.

Nicholas Cage (person) 1 — Actor starring in the film Pig as a hermit with a truffle pig

Marlboro Lights (concept) 1 — Cigarette brand favored by the author's aunt

Bin Laden (person) 1 — Referenced in discussion about zoomers rediscovering his 'Letter to America' and praising it as anti-imperialist.

Iraq/Afghanistan war (concept) 1 — Wars whose veterans' struggles, including high suicide rates, are discussed as being overlooked.

Wenders (person) 1 — Film director of Perfect Days, discussed in relation to potentially misleading the public about the film's themes.

Duel (film) 1 — Steven Spielberg film mentioned as example of Europeans looking out of place in American landscape

Ursula K Le Guin (person) 1 — Science fiction author of Left Hand Of Darkness.

Left Hand Of Darkness (book) 1 — Science fiction novel by Ursula K Le Guin.

Grandrieux (person) 1 — Filmmaker who discussed film as documentary of mannerisms and speech patterns.

Pyramids in Giza (place) 1 — Egyptian monuments referenced as places inhabited by ghosts and history.

Pavlov's Dogs (concept) 1 — Classical conditioning experiment used as metaphor for porn's psychological effects

Classical Conditioning (concept) 1 — Psychological concept applied to analysis of pornography consumption

Titian (person) 1 — Renaissance painter mentioned in context of historical erotic art

Calvin Harris (person) 1 — DJ/musician mentioned in overheard conversation

Gabriel García Marquez (person) 1 — Author recommended as a great read

Snowden (person) 1 — Referenced as an example of digital rights/privacy activism that was eventually muted.

Everest (place) 1 — Mountain referenced as an example of a challenge that has become too easy with money.

We the Living (book) 1 — 1936 novel by Ayn Rand featuring a heroine who admires Bolshevik methods

Anatoly Lunacharsky (person) 1 — Soviet commissar for enlightenment and self-described Nietzschean Marxist who wrote about the people as a lump of marble

Mr.Turner (film) 1 — Film that poster's girlfriend used to enjoy and rave about