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thats not cricket
… Reading about the Arab world in the Western press is an exercise in inflection to tease out what is actual factual and pertinent from the rhetorical flourishes and baggage of Orientalism that manifests itself in a equally insidious form … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Hamza al-Masri, Anne V. Coates, David Lean, david lean director, David Lean Lawrence of Arabia, Frank Gardner BBC, Graham Smith Republic group, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, President abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi Yemen, Prince Al-Walid Saudi Arabia, Princess Ameera Al-Taweel
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cargo cult: the steady state
The millenarian movement, and its stages that apply virtually without exception to those throughout history and around the world was first most artfully articulated Anthony F.C. Wallace who found that movements “always originate in situations of social and cultural stress … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony F.C. Wallace anthropologist, boris pasternak, David Lean, Ghost Dance Wovoka, James Mooney anthropologist, Julie Christie, Lenin Communist Manifesto, Leon Trotsky, Madame Pickwick, Marx and Engels, omar sharif, Philleo Nash, Sergei Eisenstein, The Code of Handsome Lake, Tito Yugoslavia
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paisan: real to reel
Impressive. The Italian neo-realists encapsulated the entire postwar delapidation, nihilism and then re-birth by refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, avoiding the temptation to money making based on the Hollywood formula … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged David Lean, Frederico Fellini, Harriet White, Helen Levitt, klaus mann, luigi zampa, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Carne, Mario Bava, renato castellani, Riccardo Freda, roberto rossellini, sy wexler, Thomas Mann, vittorio de sica
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the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.
State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading
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Tagged a.d. gordon, a.m. klein, benny morris, Byron Childe Harolde, david frischman, David Lean, Edward Said, eugene fromentin, fatma kassen, Hieronymous Bosch, ilan pappe, lev grinberg, Martin Buber, meir margalit, Michael Greenstein, Michel Foucault, noah j. efron, noam chomsky middle east, omar sharif, peter o'toole, rafael falk, T.E. Lawrence, Tim Dirks, William Butler Yeats, yakov m. rabkin, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
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A BLIND DATE WITH BLIND FATE
”In both the film and its source, the scandalously popular novel by Fanny Hurst, Ray has economic and social options other than life in the Back Street. It may be the devil’s bargain under the patriarchy, but it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Bob Dylan, Bob Hope, Brief Encounter David Lean, Bright Lights Film Journal, Charles Boyer, David Lean, Fannie Hurst, Fanny Hurst, Germaine Greer, Irene Dunne, James mason, John Flaus, John M. Stahl, Lolita, Lucille Ball, Margaret Sullavan, Noel Coward, Stanley Kubrick, Susan White, Trevor Howard, Vladimir Nabokov, Werner Fassbinder
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