Red Scare Canon

Cultural References from the Subreddit

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• Juelz Santana (person) 1 — Rapper whose style is preferred over British countryside fashion.
• Dr. Strangelove (film) 1 — Stanley Kubrick's satirical black comedy film about nuclear war
• DJ Screw (person) 1 — Hip hop DJ and music producer known for pioneering the chopped and screwed technique
• The Wasteland (book) 1 — T.S. Eliot poem referenced to describe feelings of detachment
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (person) 1 — Artist whose paintings are referenced to describe feelings of alienation
• Saint Maud (film) 1 — Film about sad, lonely, young women that the poster loved
• Jay DeFeo (person) 1 — Artist who created a giant sculpture called The Rose in her living room for two decades
• Catch 22 (book) 1 — Book that sparked discussion about impactful books to give to children
• A Farewell To Arms (book) 1 — Hemingway novel that blew away a reader with its vitality
• Robinson Crusoe (book) 1 — Book the poster would want their son to read
• The Border Trilogy (book) 1 — McCarthy work described as great for a high school boy with adventure and the right amount of pretentiousness
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (book) 1 — Book suggested for children to read
• Drama Of The Gifted Child (book) 1 — Book by Alice Miller about how narcissistic parents form and deform the emotional lives of their children
• Alice Miller (person) 1 — Child psychologist who wrote about narcissistic parents and their effects on children
• Roy Andersson (person) 1 — Swedish filmmaker influenced by Buñuel, director of You the Living
• You the Living (film) 1 — 2007 film by Roy Andersson depicting the dreadful everyday nature of living in Sweden with dry humor
• The Overcoat (book) 1 — Story by Gogol being adapted into an unfinished animated film by Yuri Norstein
• Richard Williams (person) 1 — Animator who worked on The Thief and the Cobbler from 1964 until its hasty 1993 release
• The Thief and the Cobbler (film) 1 — Animated film by Richard Williams started in 1964 and hastily released in 1993, not yet restored to original vision
• Clickhole (concept) 1 — Comedy website operated by The Onion
• Terry Pratchett (person) 1 — Fantasy author whose writing style is compared to Dickens but described as inferior.
• Animorphs (book) 1 — Book series featuring alien parasites called Yeerks that enter through the ear canal, referenced in humorous question ab...
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (book) 1 — A book about murder and memory in Northern Ireland mentioned in a post about women posting their victories.
• Mladen Dolar (person) 1 — Author who wrote about the double and autoscopia in relation to tragic outcomes.
• Hands on a Hardbody (film) 1 — Documentary listed as recommendation example.
• Bowling for Columbine (film) 1 — Documentary listed as recommendation example.
• Exit Through the Gift Shop (film) 1 — Documentary listed as recommendation example.
• Born Rich (film) 1 — Documentary listed as recommendation example.
• Alzheimers (concept) 1 — Disease afflicting family friend Leslie mentioned in personal story.
• Blink 182 (person) 1 — Pop punk band discussed as encapsulation of r/redscarepod aesthetic with one member having pain pill addiction and gover...
• Oli Sykes (person) 1 — Musician quoted about living life unconventionally and rejecting the traditional life path of birth-school-college-work-...
• JAMA Psychiatry (concept) 1 — Medical journal cited in study about gender-inclusive depression scales finding equal rates of depression between men an...
• Ted Kennedy (person) 1 — U.S. Senator involved in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident where his passenger drowned.
• Mary Jo Kopechne (person) 1 — Passenger who drowned in Ted Kennedy's car during the Chappaquiddick incident.
• Chappaquiddick (place) 1 — Island in Massachusetts where Ted Kennedy's car accident occurred in 1969.
• Robert F. Kennedy (person) 1 — Former presidential candidate whose campaign workers attended the party before the Chappaquiddick incident.
• E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction (book) 1 — Essay by David Foster Wallace about television and irony in US fiction
• Mayakovsky (person) 1 — Russian poet whose work the poster reads at cafes.
• Landslide (album) 1 — Song by Fleetwood Mac used as a cultural reference point for women.
• Leonora Carrington (person) 1 — Subject of photograph series Oda a la Necrofilia by Kati Horna
• Kati Horna (person) 1 — Hungarian photographer who created the series Oda a la Necrofilia published in S.nob magazine
• John Cazale (person) 1 — Actor who appeared in five films all nominated for best picture before dying in his early 40s.
• El Camino (film) 1 — Breaking Bad film that the poster skipped because they didn't care about the character Jesse.
• Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (book) 1 — 1882 book by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins documenting Paiute oral traditions about giants called Si-Te-Cah
• Lovelock Cave (place) 1 — Archaeological site where Paiute legend says giants were exterminated and thousands of artifacts were found in the 20th ...
• EDL (concept) 1 — English Defence League, a far-right political organization in the UK
• Cindy Lee (person) 1 — Musical artist who released the album Diamond Jubilee in 2024
• Diamond Jubilee (album) 1 — 2024 album by Cindy Lee
• Schrödinger's Cat (concept) 1 — Thought experiment in quantum mechanics about superposition and observation
• Kevin Shields (person) 1 — Musician praised for having a concept of melody in contrast to newer shoegaze artists.