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an angel screaming its last song is redemptive
Are the boundaries between high culture and low culture artificial and easily disolvable?Do such boundaries simply repeat, enhance and reinforce one another in a homogenous system which underpins the essence of consumption and the market economy? In the 1920’s Walter … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Elisa Kreisinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Harold Bloom, Henry Jenkins, James Agee, Jonathan McIntosh, Lawrence Lessig, Political Remix Videos PRV, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin
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like a brick in their pocket : and now What? …
Why not strive for fame. “The Bitter Ones” say its a need to be envied and that going “viral”- a term which is in itself a euphemism for something that doesn’t exist, is virtual, and has no real meaning- is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brent Hartinger, Britney Spears, Casey Affleck, Chaplin, Cintra Wilson, Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, James Agee, Joaquin Pheonix, John Cameron Mitchell, Leah McClaren, Martin A. Gardner, Matthew Brady, Michel Houellebecq, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, The Marx Brothers, Tom Gunning
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BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES
Charlie Chaplin represented a vision of laughter, of comedy, that tore away at the veil, a social burka fitted over its explosive and unpredictable composition.A contrast of fast nickelodeons and the slow dimes of higher culture. He enabled a reconnection … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Bakhtin, Bergson, Brecht, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, David Trotter, Fernand Leger, Film history, Frederic Jameson, Freud, James Agee, Neil Simon, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul, Woody Allen
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STRANGE AFFINITY
More than half a decade before Chaplin was to ridicule Hitler’s spectacle of charismatic greatness in the Great Dictator, Walter Benjamin already emphasized the strange affinity between the comedian and the politician. Accordingly, Hitler and Chaplin appear as products of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dog's Life, Ballet mecanique, Benjamin, Beowulf, Cain and Abel, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Fernand Leger, Grendel, John Gardner, Michael Leonard, The Circus, The Great Dictator, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul
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MYSTERY BEYOND THE GOLD RUSH
When one writes about Chaplin, discussion of a ”best” work inevitably results in his most ardent supporters agreeing to disagree in choosing his best feature length work or short film. Less contentious is the selection of a favorite example to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Chaplin, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Georgia Hale, Koestler, Mack Swain, Martin Buber, Maurice S. Friedman, The Eureka Process, The Gold Rush, Tom Gunning
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