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SECTIONS
0:00 Intro: Rosebud
05:01 Part 1: A Rotten Crowd
23:40 Part 2: Creators and Destroyers of Worlds
37:24 Part 3: Holding Prometheus Accountable
53:52 Part 4: Escaping the Labyrinth
1:09:12 Part 5: Finishing the Hat
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SOURCES
BOOKS
Bird, Kai and Sherwin, Martin J. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)
Lebo, Harlan. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey (2016)
.Darnell, Colleen and Darnell, John Coleman. Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth (2022)
García Márquez, Gabriel. The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (1925)
Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition (1958)
Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane (1957)

FILM
The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) dir. Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein, PBS
Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles, RKO
The Day After Trinity (1981) dir. Jon H. Else, KTEH
Elizabeth (1998) dir. Shekhar Kapur, PolyGram Entertainment
The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, Fox Searchlight
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) dir. John Hughes, Paramount
Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale, Universal
The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann, Warner Bros.
Jackie (2016) dir. Pablo Larraín, Fox Searchlight
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) dir. Martin Scorsese, Paramount & Apple
Mank (2020) dir. David Fincher, Netflix
Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola, Columbia Pictures
Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan, Universal Pictures
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, Walt Disney Studios
Tár (2022) dir. Todd Field, Focus Features
Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
The Wind Rises (2013) dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli

SHOWS
The Crown, “Act of God” (2016) dir. Julian Jarrold, Netflix
"Hyde Park Corner" (2016) dir. Stephen Daldry
“Olding” (2019) dir. Benjamin Caron
Dahmer–Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, “Bad Meat” (2022) dir. Carl Franklin, Netflix
The Great, "The Beaver's Nose" (2020) dir. Geeta Patel, Hulu
Hercules: The Animated Series, “The Prometheus Affair” (1998) dir. Phil Weinstein, Walt Disney Television Animation
Veep, "Veep" (2019) dir. David Mandel, HBO

STAGE
Ahknaten, Phillip Glass, dir. Achim Freyer, Phelim McDermott, and Nanine Linning
Hamilton, LinManuel Miranda, dir. Thomas Kail
Newsies, Alan Menken, Jack Feldman, and Harvey Fierstein, dir. Jeff Calhoun
Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, dir. James Lapine

PUBLICATIONS
Zemler, Emily. “Critics say omitting the Japanese toll makes ‘Oppenheimer’ ‘morally halfformed’ Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug, 2023. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment...
Strate, Lance. “Death and the Public Realm” HAC Bard, 13 May, 2013. https://hac.bard.edu/amormundi/death...
Zacharek, Stephanie. “The Ending of Killers of the Flower Moon Is Astonishing” Time Magazine, 20 Oct, 2023. https://time.com/6326449/killersoft...
McCurry, Justin. “Japanese Animator Under Fire for Film Tribute to Warplane Designer” The Guardian, 22 Aug, 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Raggio, Olga. “The Myth of Prometheus: Its Survival and Metamorphoses up to the Eighteenth Century.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 21, no. 1/2, 1958, pp. 44–62. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/750486
Kruse, Horst. “The Real Jay Gatsby: Max von Gerlach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Compositional History of ‘The Great Gatsby.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 1, 2002, pp. 45–83. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41583032
Álvarez Borland, Isabel. “The Task of the Historian in El General en su Laberinto” College of the Holy Cross, Sep 1993. https://crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/...