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Travis Mushett

Travis Mushett
Travis Mushett is a New York-based writer and thing-maker. He hosts The Haunted Screen, a narrative history podcast about international film movements that's been praised by the Criterion Collection for how it "shapes swaths of cinema's past into engaging, character-driven stories." In the name of brand consistency, his Substack newsletter is also called The Haunted Screen. Travis holds a PhD from Columbia University and teaches film and media history at Fordham University and Marymount Manhattan College.


Watching the Films of Weimar Germany to Understand Our Increasingly Fascistic Present

“My dive into Weimar Germany taught me that authoritarianism doesn’t always follow a linear path.”
January 25, 2023  By Travis Mushett
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