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Tag Archives: Edward Bernays
waste and taste
Conspicuous waste.Is it envy? If he had fun with his money through the pleasures of mistresses, race horses, public bequests, fine art, play actresses, first folios of Shakespeare could we think more in that these disbursements had “character?” In part … Continue reading
live at snubbs: looking at kings without crowns
Meet the Fockers. Jewish? Hardly. The idea that Hollywood is Jewish can be seen as somewhat tenuous. That it is the entertainment complex, the mouthpiece of the industrial/financial complex is evident.Its secular, universal aspiring, atheistic or a best gnostic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, Edward Bernays, Everett Sloane, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Hieronymous Bosch, James Naremore, Jeff Goldsmith, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael, Peter Bogdanovich, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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welles: frozen in the role of prodigy
Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, David Bordwell, Edward Bernays, H.G. Wells, Ivy Lee, James Naremore, John Houseman, John Huston, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles The Cradle Will Rock, Osron Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, William Wyler
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citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies
After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Hopsicker, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Edward Bernays, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Stanton, Franz Kafka, h.g. wells war of the worlds, Hadley Cantril, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ivy Lee, louella parsons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Walter Lippmann, William Randolph Hearst
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if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
gender swag
… clever and suggestive? Does the expected backlash merely enhance notoriety and reinforce the values the critics see. It does remind of the sports athlete whose career is over because of concussion syndrome. There was no one specific hit, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Edward Bernays, Feminist frequency, kim kardashian, LEGO friends, peggy orenstein, samantha ettus, sexist advertising, sheryl sandberg, sheryl sandberg facebook, stereotype threats, Walter Benjamin
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brother can you spare a dime?
The Great Depression ended in every film. If it ever existed. Yes we could thank Shirley Temple for that. The great template that the American entertainment complex gave us, and keeps on giving us. To learn to love kids, and … Continue reading
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Tagged charles sellon, Edward Bernays, eleanor roosevelt, fred bojangles robinson, gifford and young, Herbert Hoover, J.P. Morgan, jaime diamond, james jimmy dunn, Pecora Commission, shirley temple, shirley temple curly top, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Lippman, William Wellman
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blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance
The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bob Dylan, Edward Bernays, frank the tank, greil marcus old weird america, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, howard stern, jennifer aniston, kid rock pabst blue ribbon, limp bizkit, metropoulous brothers, old milwaukee advertising, pabst blue ribbon marketing, Richard Brautigan, Robert Crumb, Sigmund Freud, The Band, will ferrell
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