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Tag Archives: Charlie Chaplin
wall street : hot under a blue collar
If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park
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down the hatch
At the bottom of the poisoned cup is a graveyard of broken dreams. Poison has been around seemingly forever. The bible is filled episodes since the Fall of poisonous plants and amateur snake handlers testing their mettle and faith against … Continue reading
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Tagged andre chenier, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, death by poison, death of socrates, edward f. bachner, Jacques-Louis David, John Boydell, Monsieur Verdoux, Orson Welles, rasputin death, Sir Joshua Reynolds, william dowling
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flaneur: raising cain with mr. verdoux
Herman Cain as the flaneur out of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris. Men in the crowd, struggling with boredom and the consequences of eternal return.Charlie Chaplin in Mr. Verdoux and Herman Cain, figures, somewhat comic, but whose humor is curiously out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, constantin guys, Donald Kuspit, Edgar Allan Poe, fassbinder marriage of maria braun, herman cain, jennifer cooke, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walter Benjamin
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when they were fab
The optical unconscious.The truth shoppers would have to parse through all the footage to strip away the false consciousness maintained under the neo-liberal economic model with regard to video and film. Cult values and elements of the ritual predominate and … Continue reading
too long in exile: worn out welcome
Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading
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Tagged anselm kiefer, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, charles laughton, Charlie Chaplin, clifford odets, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth hauptmann, Fritz Lang, georg baselitz, HUAC hearings, jaroslav hacek, John Fuegi, lotte lenya, Peter Lorre
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between empathy and illusion
…Brecht began to contrive an elaborate complex of stage techniques to produce the celebrated alienation effect, which was designed to stir audiences without exhausting them. He employed many varieties of the play within a play convention to keep the narration … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Donald Kuspit, edward kippers, georg baselitz, german neoexpressionism, Kurt Weill, martin esslin brecht, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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brecht: cleaning out the stale slag of feeling
The why of Bertolt Brecht’s popularity in America has always been a bit complicated. One way or another, the United States held a personal fascination for Brecht, and his attitude towards it developed through two distinct phases. As a young … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, boyd tomkin, Charlie Chaplin, christopher caudwell, deidra gwyther, don coker art, erwin piscator, George Grosz, helene weigel, john doyle director, martin esslin, martin esslin brecht, pacifism, Walter Benjamin
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guess who’s coming to dinner
The world had changed. To draw similarities with today is hazardous- the situation is more complex today- but some of the contexts bear semblance, the same family genes so to speak. When Chaplin met Einstein in January 1931, the financial … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, bernard riemann, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin the rink, Hannah Arendt, james j. sylvester, jennifer cooke, John Updike, kracauer, marcel grossman, max born, Max Horkheimer, max jammer, ross benjamin, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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a sagging and bagging story
The pull up your pants law. With a recession and lots of people with extra time on their hands. The law is part of a more complex social issue that says more about white culture’s response to hip culture, but … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, Al Jolson, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin baggy pants, dr. keith clark, gary siplin, Heinrich Hoffmann, jim crow, NAACP, pull up the pants law, pull up your pants law, Ralph Ellison, schave and reilly, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, vaudeville, vaudeville baggy pants
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