Cinema of Meaning Podcast | Top Gun: Maverick | Cinema of Meaning #17 @cinemaofmeaning | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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About this episode:
Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the return of sincere storytelling, the societal value of 'mavericks', and the complicated relation between fictional heroic narratives and real world militarism, in Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick.

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