Popular Culture
- Several Bollywood films such as Ab Tak Chappan and Encounter: The Killing have been made about encounter killings carried out by the encounter specialists of India's various police departments.
- All three films directed by Coleman Francis end with extrajudicial killings of main characters.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
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