"Nazis, I hate these guys": Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon.
Indiana Jones' staunch anti-Nazism and the franchise's satirical belittling and ridicule of the Third Reich render its protagonist an antifascist memetic icon. While considerable attention has been devoted to the digital media landscape of the right, less emphasis is given to left-wing movements and...
| Publicado en: | Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 129 - 145 |
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