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Episode 2: Poor Jud is Dead and Other Ways that Watchmen References the Musical Oklahoma
In this episode CMU students Liggera Allen Edmonds and Elizabeth Van Buskirk dig into all the ways that HBO's Watchmen references the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma. They explain how the WWII era musical whitewashed Westward expansion and Native American genocide, and, how, in its use of Oklahoma, HBO's Watchmen doesn't shy away from addressing colonial violence. They look at the parallels between Watchmen's Chief of Police, Judd Crawford, played by Don Johnson, and compare his character to Jud Fry, the working class villain of Oklahoma, played by Rod Steiger in the 1955 film version of the musical.
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By Professor Newman's Media ClassIn this episode CMU students Liggera Allen Edmonds and Elizabeth Van Buskirk dig into all the ways that HBO's Watchmen references the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma. They explain how the WWII era musical whitewashed Westward expansion and Native American genocide, and, how, in its use of Oklahoma, HBO's Watchmen doesn't shy away from addressing colonial violence. They look at the parallels between Watchmen's Chief of Police, Judd Crawford, played by Don Johnson, and compare his character to Jud Fry, the working class villain of Oklahoma, played by Rod Steiger in the 1955 film version of the musical.