Think About It

Ulrich C. Baer

Think About It engages today's leading thinkers in conversations about powerful ideas and how language can change the world.

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Think About It

Episodes (144)

Jan 3rd Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz
Oct 9, 2025 Free Speech 72: What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
Oct 2, 2025 Book Talk 69: Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman

Think About It

Jan 3, 2026
1¼ hours
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What is “America” not only as a political entity but in our imagination? How can we properly envision America, without repeating clichés that frame America as either reactionary or revolutionary, repressive or liberatory? I spoke with Eyal Peretz about his book American Medium, which looks at Hollywood to re-imagine the concept of "America" through the medium of film. By considering six fundamental American movies: John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, Peretz explains how these films do...

Think About It

Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz

Ulrich C. Baer

00:00 -01:28:14