Tag Archives: Anita Sarkeesian

catty and chatty

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dave

Too much dialogue in a film and too little. Its a general that many very successful films have almost little dialogue. But what of the other extreme, where the cinematic effort is running after the dialogue like a car chasing … Continue reading →

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every good child deserves favor

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Dave

There were almost no flickers of sensitivity to the horror. The callous behavior of parents and adults to infants in seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France is almost too impossible to appear credible. The women of the poor suckled for a … Continue reading →

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astarte: defrost from the fridge

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Dave

A powerful myth.A goddess of life giving nature, a suprahuman embodiment of the creative forces of the universe. Astarte was a lover and destroyer.Seductive and violent. She was a bestower of life and death.Health and sickness. This contradictory Near Eastern … Continue reading →

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emancipation: utopia is kind of boring

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Dave

Sigmund Freud even constructed an elaborate theory, based on the female’s discovery of her presumed anatomical deficiencies to explain why females manifest a submissive feminine personality. This theory has proven to be one of the most disposable portions of Freud’s … Continue reading →

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disney punch: utopia as patriarchy?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Art

The common features of human life have been around a long a long time. Around the block many, many times. Ever since humankind began to make a human world for its habitation, that world has been shared and divided along … Continue reading →

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keeping it unreal: the advertainers

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Dave

Are all aspects of or life affected by immediacy? Its an old idea where products not only lend contextual support to a narrative but contribute and propagate a commodity fetishism resulting from the relationship between technology art and advertising.The result … Continue reading →

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true grit and rough justice: wild west as arcades project

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dave

Charles Baudelaire incarnated, in his bohemian manner, the democratization of poetry. It was a new language that lacked an academic subtext; totally alien to he Academie Francaise to which he aspired. It was the language of the “flaneur” to which … Continue reading →

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subtle slavery: transmsission of property and commodity

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dave

Sir Robert Walpole, England’s eighteenth-century prime minister, lived in great splendor, In 1733, his household consumed over a thousand bottles of white Lisbon wine, merely one variety among the scores in the cellar. Every week oysters came in by the … Continue reading →

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An Oscar for the “male gaze”

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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gender in the red zone: social engineering the winning drive

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Dave

There is no doubt that Super Bowl is popular, and for many reasons, among which it represents an aspect of a free democratic society.And, most cleverly, how the products we consume are alleged to represent our “freedom”.   It reflects … Continue reading →

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