Kansas Never Plays Itself: How movies lie when they take us places

from Blog - Rolf Potts · host Rolf Potts

In this feature-length video essay that explores the role places play in storytelling, Rolf examines how Kansas — his home state — has been imagined, distorted, and mythologized in cinema and television for more than a century. Blending archival film clips, historical analysis, and deeply personal narration, Kansas Never Plays Itself traces how cinematic shorthand…

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