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Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock
fast food on the game reserve
Roadkill? Maybe its a metaphor for sexual tourism. Maybe he doesn’t really kill the animal, going through the whole tracking and shooting. Instead, he hers them into a fenced in area and runs them over in a Land Rover. Or … Continue reading
zombie banking: deposit at your risk
Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al. warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernie Madoff, dr. robert hare, Hannibal Lecter, jack Kevorkian, Jim Rickards, john quiggin, marinus van reymerswaele, Meredith Whitney, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, psychopathic behavior, Quentin Massys, yalman onaran
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dr. jekyll and mr. raw hyde leather
Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies. Dr. Jekyll faced some atrocious consequences when he let his dark side run savagely wild with a potion that transformed him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. The extreme makeover aside, perhaps are … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abraham Maslow, alfred adler, Alfred Hitchcock, Carl Jung, carl jung synchronicity, Edward Hopper, Francis Bacon, Joe O'Connor, Lucian Freud, rollo may, russell williams canada, sgt. paul wynn, Sigmund Freud, Somerset Maugham, stephen kinzey, vernon quinsey
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car 39 where are you?
The 39 Steps was the film that projected Alfred Hitchcock into the status of acclaimed filmmaker. Recently,there is a story circulating that “39″ steps that were “recovered” from the World Trade Center are going to use as an entrance way … Continue reading
collector geeks: crying over the whole shebang
Obsessive completist collector geeks…. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): While collecting records over the years,I began to become fascinated by a certain weird ‘category’ of record collecting. There are so many odd little nooks and crannies of record collecting that you never … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art chantry, bettie page, big black, Bryan Ferry, butthole surfers, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, Frank Sinatra, fred sanford, Gibby Hayes, Ivy Rorschach, Joni Mitchell, Lux Interior, mary tyler moore, redd foxx, ron wood, sanford and son, Steve Albini, The Cramps, xavier cugat
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paperback writer
Forget the paperback writer. Its the vehicle that the paperback novel represented which surpassed the content value…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): The paperback book existed before WW2. however, it was not a big seller, not an important item so … Continue reading
An Oscar for the “male gaze”
Since the first biblical patriarchs wandered out of Babylonia to the Egyptian Pharoahs and through the Greek theatre of Aristophanes to modern Hollywood, the male hero has been the center of the universe. Copernicus proved “man” was not the center … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Academy awards Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, Aristophanes, B.F. Skinner, Dorothy Arzner, Dustin Hoffman, Guy Debord, James Bond, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Katharine Hepburn, Laura Mulvey, Lee Wallace, Oscar Awards, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosalind Russell
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A NON-NARRATIVE GAZE: The Snuff Between The Action
It is a popular video on the web at the moment; yet it is eerie and creepy since there is an actual murder that takes place off camera about two minutes in. In other words a police officer killed John … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Dominic Holden, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Grace Kelly, Jacques Lacan, James Stewart, John T. Williams, Josh Feit, Keith Ranville, Laura Mulvey, Maurice Blanchot, Norman Bates, Pascal Bonitzer, Seattle police officer Ian Birk, Seattle street artist No Touching Ground, Sofia Coppola, Walter Benjamin
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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses
Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allen Josephs, Andre Breton, Bert Cardullo, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, De Tocqueville, Derek Malcolm, Ezra Pound, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, George Orwell, Georges Braque, Gilles Deleuze, Ian Gibson, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Silvia Pinal, Stanley Kauffmann, Stephen Marche, T.S. Eliot, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco
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