Are critics right to call it a new dark age? Film, music, TV — no new entries in popular culture seem to stack up to the classics.
‘Bach would be a hedge-fund manager’
Modern man: 18th Century composer Johann Sebastian Bach reimagined as Michael Burry, the American hedge fund manager whose prediction of the 2008 financial crash inspired the hit film The Big Short. Glossary
Roaring Twenties - A period of economic prosperity in Western countries in the 1920s, known for rapid social and cultural change.
Dark age - A time considered to be not advanced.
Marvel - A fictional universe where stories from most American comic books take place.