Michael Almereyda’s Tesla Shines a New Light on the Mad Genius Myth - a podcast by Back Row
from 2020-08-19T09:00
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Tesla de-claws the myth of the angry male genius who is simultaneously
punished and celebrated by society as a superior being. Almereyda’s Tesla
is instead portrayed as a bundle of neuroses whose naive utopian ideals are
as much the key to his downfall as they are to his genius.
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