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secret agent cult: down on the mekong
In fact as in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …Vietnam was an example .There the pawns included not merely secret service, police and paramilitary … Continue reading
the secret agent: aesthetic of violence
…It was the Second World War that gave the secret agent one of his most significant new traits since James Fenimore Cooper’s day when he wrote The Spy: the James Bond look, the look of violence and all its various … Continue reading
the cult of the spy: broken english
…It was in the Afro-Asian colonies of the leading European powers, however, that the secret service tradition and myth grew most rapidly. The British metropolitan secret services-MI6 and MI5- were largely staffed at the beginning by old professionals from India, … Continue reading
cult of the secret agent
The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society. We should not make the mistake of assuming that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Homeland Gideon Raff, Homeland television series, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Kathryn Bigelow, Lowell Thomas journalist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Reilly Ace of Spies, Richard Sorge, Sidney Reilly undercover operator, T.E. Lawrence, Zero Dark Thirty movie
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the secret agent: broken english
The secret agent. Hazardous to the health of the open society. We live in the cult of the secret agent and in fact as infiction, the spy, the CIA operative is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity … Continue reading
bonds that tie
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) 007′s Big Screen Debut in the USA The sixth of the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming—begun in 1953 with Casino Royale, later used to relaunch/reintroduce the movie franchise in … Continue reading
the bell curve progression: instant litter
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i really think the era of great magazines is really over. since they first emerged in the last half of the 19th century, popular magazines have quickly grown into a magnificent art form in itself. … Continue reading
An Oscar for the “male gaze”
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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Tagged Academy awards Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, Aristophanes, B.F. Skinner, Dorothy Arzner, Dustin Hoffman, Guy Debord, James Bond, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Katharine Hepburn, Laura Mulvey, Lee Wallace, Oscar Awards, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosalind Russell
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HOW TO STEAL SCEPTER & ORB: THANK OFFERINGS OF THE CURIOUS
Here lies the man who boldly hath run through More villainles than England ever knew; And ne’er to any friend he had was true. Here let him then by all unpitied lie, And let’s rejoice his time was come to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Marshall, Andrew Graham Dixon, Andrew Marvell, Ann Lauren, Charles II of England, Colonel Blood, Crown Jewels of England, David hayton, Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Ormonde, Eveline Cruickshanks, George Villiers, James Bond, John Evelyn, Oliver Cromwell, Restoration of Charles II, Robert Walker, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir Peter Lely, Talbot Edwards, Thomas Blood, Tom Slemen, Tower of London, W.P. Liscomb, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, William Bray
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ONCE YOU GET THE HANG OF IT
“I experimented with knife throwing as a consequence of writing Absinthe and Flamethrowers. It’s quite entertaining and I’ve been recommending knife throwing anyone who’ll listen (well, almost anyone.) It’s much different experience than, say, throwing pub darts. To me, one … Continue reading
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Tagged African Knives, Elizabeth Collins, Gabriel Got, Impalement arts, James Bond, John Petherick, John Rethnick, Knife throwing, Knife throwing in circus, Leon Sioto, Martin Collins, Patrick Mcnaughton, Peter Lorre, Pitt Rivers, Roger Moore James Bond, William Gurstelle
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