Panama! Boxing! Colonialism! De Niro! De Armas! This week we're exploring the heart of America's historic "sphere of influence" through Jonathan Jakubowicz’s 2016 drama Hands of Stone. A biopic of famed Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, the film tries to divine the complex interior life of a man who grew up on the wrong side of U.S. imperialism (and the Panama Canal Zone) and fought his way to becoming a four-time champion of the world. In so doing, the movie deals with—and in some cases re-enacts—some of the themes and scenes I talk about in GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM. I’m joined for the conversation by my friend and political scientist Michael Paarlberg, a terrific thinker on Latin American policy and migration who spent much of his childhood living in Panama City. | Read Mike's bio here: https://politicalscience.vcu.edu/people/faculty/paarlberg.html | Get Gangsters of Capitalism here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250135582
Gangsters Movie Night 4: Hands of Stone
Gangsters Movie Night 4: Hands of Stone
Gangsters Movie Night 4: Hands of Stone
Panama! Boxing! Colonialism! De Niro! De Armas! This week we're exploring the heart of America's historic "sphere of influence" through Jonathan Jakubowicz’s 2016 drama Hands of Stone. A biopic of famed Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, the film tries to divine the complex interior life of a man who grew up on the wrong side of U.S. imperialism (and the Panama Canal Zone) and fought his way to becoming a four-time champion of the world. In so doing, the movie deals with—and in some cases re-enacts—some of the themes and scenes I talk about in GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM. I’m joined for the conversation by my friend and political scientist Michael Paarlberg, a terrific thinker on Latin American policy and migration who spent much of his childhood living in Panama City. | Read Mike's bio here: https://politicalscience.vcu.edu/people/faculty/paarlberg.html | Get Gangsters of Capitalism here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250135582