![]() ![]() On the Capitol steps, Trump vowed to put “only America First” in Park City, a genial romantic comedy from Pakistani-American comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily Gordon, emerged as a festival favorite. The same day, The Big Sick premiered at Sundance - which provides a convenient beginning to the story of the last year or so in popular culture. On January 20, Trump was sworn in as president. A racist reality star was in the Oval Office and actual neo-Nazis were claiming Taylor Swift as their Aryan princess surely now was the time to scrutinize the content we consumed (binged, bought, shared, streamed, absorbed glassy-eyed) and determine what it actually said about the America we inhabited. It was the perfect year to take pop culture very seriously. The first year of Donald Trump’s presidency was one in which the destabilizing fact of that presidency was never far from mind - it made priorities clear, we told each other, unless it obscured them entirely. In 2017, it was possible to see parables everywhere. ![]()
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