Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Dukes of Hazard (film) 2 — Part of an American tradition of car culture in media that preceded Fast and Furious.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film) 2 — Classic film representing the earliest part of American car culture storytelling tradition.

Elfen Lied (film) 2 — Anime featuring Lucy, a traumatized character with invisible murder arms, compared to Chief Keef for shared themes of ch...

Opie and Anthony (album) 2 — Radio show that provided live commentary on the Mel Gibson meltdown tapes.

Kentucky Derby (concept) 2 — High-end horse racing event referenced in context of a luxury hotel bathroom incident involving gender identity confusio...

Ray-Ban Meta (concept) 2 — Augmented reality smart glasses with camera technology criticized as bleak consumer tech infiltrating everyday experienc...

John Joel Glanton (person) 2 — Character from Blood Meridian imagined to resemble an older, grizzled version of Nick Mullen.

Black Panthers (concept) 2 — Revolutionary political organization that Tupac's mother was involved with during his upbringing.

Juzo Itami (person) 2 — Japanese filmmaker who regularly cast his wife Nobuku Miyamoto in his films including Tampopo and A Taxing Woman

Nobuku Miyamoto (person) 2 — Japanese actress and wife of filmmaker Juzo Itami who starred in the majority of his films

Tampopo (film) 2 — Film by Juzo Itami starring his wife Nobuku Miyamoto

A Taxing Woman (film) 2 — Film by Juzo Itami starring his wife Nobuku Miyamoto

Supermarket Woman (film) 2 — Film by Juzo Itami starring his wife Nobuku Miyamoto

Genoa (place) 2 — Italian city where Mary Shelley spent a year of despair and miserable feeling.

Robert Capa (person) 2 — Hungarian-born war photographer who covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and D-Day, co-founded Magnum Photos in ...

Gerda Taro (person) 2 — Photographer who worked with André Friedmann to create the Robert Capa persona and died in Spain during the Spanish Civi...

Magnum Photos (place) 2 — Photography collective co-founded by Robert Capa in 1947 after World War II.

Chuck Yeager (person) 2 — Pilot whose cool manner and phrasing became the model for professional pilot accent and speech patterns.

Voices from Chernobyl (book) 2 — Book by Svetlana Alexievich featuring testimonies including that of Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of deceased firefighter Va...

Leda and the Swan (book) 2 — Poem by W.B. Yeats about rape that a student loves but classmates find disgusting and want banned, central to debate abo...

Robert Browning (person) 2 — Poet whose work featuring 'creepy men' has caused controversy among literature students who judge others for appreciatin...

Roman Catholicism (concept) 2 — Christian religion with strict doctrine that former degenerates convert to in what appears to be religious psychosis

The Obsolete Man (film) 2 — Twilight Zone episode praised as potentially the best written/acted with top tier cinematography

Living Doll (film) 2 — Twilight Zone episode described as the scariest, causing viewer to get rid of American Girl doll as a child.

Cat Marnell (person) 2 — Original problematic it-girl media darling who wrote for xoJane, suggested as Red Scare guest

Ruby Warrington (person) 2 — Author of Sober Curious who critiques capitalist drinking culture and its enforcement on young women

Sober Curious (book) 2 — Book by Ruby Warrington critiquing consumption culture, drinking culture, and spiritual capitalism while cautioning agai...

Scary Movie (film) 2 — Parody film featuring Anna Faris that spoofed I Know What You Did Last Summer

The Searchers (film) 2 — Classic Western film mentioned as potentially too important to be scrubbed from cultural record despite dated content.

Sing Backwards and Weep (book) 2 — Mark Lanegan's memoir providing detailed descriptions of the Seattle grunge scene and addiction.

Santigold (person) 2 — An artist who canceled tour dates citing inflation and COVID concerns

J Dilla (person) 2 — A hip-hop producer mentioned alongside Nujabes as part of similar musical taste

George Sand (person) 2 — 19th century French novelist and diarist whose diary entry from 1834 discusses conversations about the nature of love wi...

Sainte-Beuve (person) 2 — French literary critic who told George Sand that love is defined by tears, stating 'when you cry, you love.'

Surveillance Capitalism (concept) 2 — The concept of corporations extracting and monetizing personal data, discussed in relation to devices like 23andMe, Amaz...

Puberty 2 (album) 2 — Album by Mitski that gained the poster as a fan, mentioned alongside questions about adult fandom.

Protoevangelium of James (book) 2 — 2nd century non-canonical gospel containing an account of Jesus' birth with mystical descriptions of time standing still...

Democratic Republic of the Congo (place) 2 — African country with only ~2000km of paved road, subject of a fascinating travel forum thread about a couple who drove t...

Child's Play (film) 2 — Horror franchise whose genderbent remake drew gay audiences, contrasted with Billy Eichner's failed romantic comedy.

David Spade (person) 2 — Comedian whose audiobooks were listened to by a graduate student interested in hypnotizing women.

Pink Flamingoes (film) 2 — John Waters film referenced for its extreme content, specifically the chicken crush scene.

Pretty Hate Machine (album) 2 — Nine Inch Nails album cited as a favorite by a graduate student in a relationship.

The Dreamers (film) 2 — 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci film about 1968 Paris protests featuring Eva Green and Louis Garrel, praised as an erotically c...

A Season in Hell (book) 2 — Rimbaud prose poem that the narrator attempted but failed to finish reading.

Total War (concept) 2 — Dasha Nekrasova's second horror film, a period piece set after the American Civil War with supernatural elements

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (film) 2 — Horror film noted for scary things happening at 3 am that the poster thinks about daily

Western Canon (concept) 2 — Traditional body of European literature and knowledge that poster claims has become difficult to learn about in universi...

Harlem Renaissance (concept) 2 — African-American cultural movement that poster claims to have studied repeatedly in multiple classes

Joe Alwyn (person) 2 — A figure mentioned as the subject of one or two songs on Taylor Swift's new album.

Straw Dogs (film) 2 — A 1960s/70s classic film noted for its impactful sound design that creates particular, enveloping audio textures.