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running from the glare of lights
Pop culture as a religion of poses, mimicking the empty religion that has normatively been disseminated to the common denominator. The counter empty gesture harking back to the pre-religious paganism, the sense of wonder in the grove at Alba and … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, amy winehouse, Andy Warhol, c.c. sabbathia overweight, eva braun, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jared Diamond, Leaves of Grass, madona wh, madonna hydrangeas, Marlene Dietrich, Pauline Kael, prince fielder overweight, Ricky Gervais, Susan Sontag, Walt Whitman
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CELEBRITY as COMMODITY FETISH: Recycle Those Tropes and Posers
For better or worse….Celebrities are not diversions for our society anymore; they are the basis of our social and economic lives.The worship of celebrity, for many is a religion fabricated and patented piecemeal out of the hollowness of some foregone … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Britney Spears, Carl Jung, Chris Crocker, Daniel Finkelstein, David Sarnoff, David Willets, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Beck, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Guillaume Reymond, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Jenkins, James Dean, James E. Combs, Jean Burgess, Jonathan McIntosh, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Buckley, Neil Cicerega, Pauline Kael, Pop Culture Hackers, Robert Fulford, Sigmund Freud, Susan Boyle, Tay Zonday, Tim Smith
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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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
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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OH DEMON ALCOHOL: STRAIGHT UP
Here’s a story about a sinner, He used to be a winner who enjoyed a life of prominence and position, But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition, It turned him to … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, Edward Copeland, Edwin S. Porter, Frank Sinatra, Fred Topel, Grace Kelly, Hays Commission, Jack Lemmon, Jack London, Jackie Gleason, James Cagney, Lee Remick, Nicholas Cage, Norman K. Denzin, Peter Mullan, Ray Davies, Ray Milland, Robert Hays, Steven Porter, Susan Hayward, W.C. Fields, Walter Matthau, William J. Felchner
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