id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-191532	Balthaser, Benjamin	Re-Staging the Great Depression: Genre as Social Memory in Darren Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler'	2019	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8307	260	49	While the setting and social class of The Fighter and The Wrestler are highly similar, The Fighter’s political conservativism runs far deeper than its Horatio Alger politics. Where consumer culture was once a collective focal point of working class life and even facilitated organizing, The Wrester suggests that contemporary mass culture is based on a spectacle in which one is a passive observer, radically limiting its progressive potential.23 Indeed, as critic Joseph Ramsey has recently noted: “Once upon a time, indulging in consumer culture meant giving oneself a ‘scare’ – Stephanie’s favorite ride, as Randy recalls, was the ‘Hall of Monsters’ – that would make you hold tight to the living leg of an actual family member beside you; nowadays, the film suggests, it means seeking an artificial ‘family’ member who will hold your prosthetic leg in the spectacular lights, wielding the symbol of your debility on stage as if it were as a weapon.	cache/clogic-191532.pdf	txt/clogic-191532.txt