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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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PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL
Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Penn, Bruce Willis, Christopher Frayling, Clint Eastwood, Dashiell Hammett, Drucilla Cornell, Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, Pasquale Marco Veltri, Paul Cooke, Peter Bondanelle, R. Philip Roy, Robert Altamann, Robert Altman, Robert Pippin, Ross Miller, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Leone, Sergio Sollima, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Thomas Weisser, Tim Dirks, Walter Benjamin, Walter Brennan, William Wellman, William Wyler, Wyatt Earp
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GUNSMOKE BONANZA: BALLOT BOX AT HIGH NOON
What are westerns all about? As the gunsmoke clears from the main streets of those frontier towns, there is always a persistent political theme. … Where is the best place to hide a leaf? asked G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Bill Clinton, Burt Lancaster, Carl Jung, Charles Portis, Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hopper, G.K. Chesterton, Gary Cooper, Glen Campbell, Harry Schein, Harry Wilmer, Henry Fonda, John Ford, John Ronson guardian, John Wayne, Kim Darby, Kirk Douglas, Lech Walesa, Lee Van Cleef, Machiavelli, Martha Wolfenstein, Michael Vanoy Adams, Nathan Leites, Robert Pippin, Sam Hellman, Samuel G. Engel, Stuart N. Lake, Tea Party, Tim Dirks, Tomasz Sarnecki, Victor Mature, Winston Miller, Wyatt Earp
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THE BEAST OF THE EAST:MELODRAMA OF MORALS
“Many of Griffith’s features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism. But Way Down East highlights the greatness of Griffith without having to sit through the Sermon on the Mount or the … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Nicholas Vardac, Anthony Paul Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, David Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Hal Erickson, James Agee, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lillian Gish, Lottie Blair Parker, Paul Brenner, Sergei Eisenstein, Tim Dirks, V.I. Pudovkin, Vardac, William A. Brady
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WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORIES
Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema history, Andrew Sarris, Arthur Koestler, Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Damian Cannon, Dave Thomson, Ed Sikov, Edward Bernays, Emma Lazarus, Ernst Lubitsch, Herman Melville, Holliday T. Day, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Laurence Maslon, Marilyn Monroe, Paul J. Karlstrom, Paul Karlstrom, Philip Kemp, Richard Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Tim Dirks, Victor Morton, William Holden
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NOBODY'S PERFECT … HEAVEN KNOWS THEY TRIED
”…Problem is, the only open slots are with Sweet Sue and Her All-Girl Society Syncopaters. As if high heels, girdles, and falsies weren’t tsouris enough, “Josephine” and “Daphne” must keep those testosterone levels down while in the sensuous proximity of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema, Andrew Sarris, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Damian Cannon, David Thomson, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Greta Garbo, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Maslon, Mack Sennett, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Kemp, Pierre Schaeffer, Richard Armstrong, Robert Portfino, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, Tim Dirks, Tony Curtis, William Shakespeare
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