Barb Wire

For our final episode of 2022, we're mixing things up! Instead of depictions of the past, we're turning our attention to depictions of the future with 1996's Barb Wire! Join us as we get into what this movie got right and wrong about the dystopian year of 2017 with discussions of moving to Canada, brain scanning technology, licensed sex work, smoking, and more!

Sources:

J.J. McCullough, "Did Americans really move to Canada under Trump? Data tells a bigger story." The Washington Post (23 August 2022). https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/canada-us-immigration-data-republican-presidents/
James McCarten, "'Feels kind of hopeless': Here's why some Americans are looking to move to Canada," Global News (18 July 2022). https://globalnews.ca/news/8996261/americans-move-canada/
Judy Dutton, "Seriously, How Many Americans Will Move to Canada? A Reality Check," yahoo!news (9 November 2016). https://news.yahoo.com/seriously-many-americans-move-canada-203000264.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACmJFAA767l-aD8rP_Z7fjghljqlB8bqtWVNU2dJrE9qEkWf-l6KISfGxDBFe-elI3JS45ALHM9OZnk2TOTdBev3BCg2bq_1gFnV444eDD9Ol1lwsAO47qCTiae_GUgSE79idEtkMHHq-fyAxQQCnH65ZTf7U2WN71lJvJ5ACDYM

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," Smoking & Tobacco Use: Adult Data," https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm
Sandy McDowell, "Smoking Rates Historically Low, but Other Cancer-related Behaviors Need Improvement," American Cancer Society (19 May 2021). https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/acs-report-smoking-rates-historically-low-but-other-cancer-related-behaviors-need-improvement.html
Lydia Saad, "U.S. Smoking Rate Still Coming Down," Gallup (24 July 2008). https://news.gallup.com/poll/109048/us-smoking-rate-still-coming-down.aspx
World Health Organization, "Tobacco," (24 May 2022). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco

Seiro Ito and Aurelie Lepine, "The Effect of Sex Work Regulation on the Health and Wellbeing of Sex Workers: Evidence from Senegal," Health Economics, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.3791
"Global Mapping of Sex Work Laws," NSWP, available at https://www.nswp.org/sex-work-laws-map

Yasmin Anwar, "Scientists Use Brain Imaging to Reveal Movies in Our Mind," Berkeley News, available at https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/
Ian Sample, "Researchers Use Brain Scans to Read People's Minds," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/mar/12/mind-reading-brain-scans-memories
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a38958677/barb-wire-true-story-pam-and-tommy/
https://screenrant.com/barb-wire-movie-pamela-anderson-what-happened/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/