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White noise: Carol Clover on Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down
In this cover feature from our May 1993 issue, posted here in tribute to the late Joel Schumacher, Carol Clover reflects on the director’s controversial film Falling Down, in which a middle-aged white male, armed with a bag full of weapons, takes revenge on a world he believes oppresses him.
By Carol Clover
White noise: Carol Clover on Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down