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tin drums: marching to a different beat
…Nobel laureate Günter Grass is expected to be released from a Hamburg hospital within days, after undergoing what his secretary called a routine test. Grass was admitted on Monday, less than two weeks after his poem criticising Israel triggered a … Continue reading
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back to walden pond
Rockwell. Norman Rockwell. Kitsch. Sentimental. He helped define American popular culture in a manner almost as influential as Walt Disney. His recreation of a phony artificial world that never existed. A fantasy world tailor made for the peculiar form that … Continue reading
boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony
How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well, For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance. Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading
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Tagged beatre klarsfeld, bernhard vesper, boris lurie, eike geisel, ernst nolte, fassbinder veronika voss, gunnar reski, hanna hoch, Hannah Arendt, harald fricke, John Heartfield, lea rosh, manfred zach, Orson Welles, Raul Hilberg, sam goodman, stanley fisher, Werner Fassbinder
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hustling those creepy patriarchal fantasies
The packaging of male ego and sexual conquest.How its peddled , this male libido as sublimated women hatred is often a matter of status. Whether its through the latest Stieg Larrson, or Hustler magazine, the ingenuity or lack of subtlety … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks, Charles Baudelaire, Christian Schad, dario saftich, david eisenbach, David Fincher, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Jonathan Kay national Post, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Glenn, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, laurie penney, Otto Dix, pierre bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, stieg larsson, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, Werner Fassbinder, William Burroughs
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8 1/2 disruptions of syntax
In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2 Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading
LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE
A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Berber, Bertolt Brecht, Dave Riley, Dita Von Teese, Duke Ellington, Erich Maria Remarque, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jason Lutes, Joel Dorn, John Fuegi, Josephine Baker, Katherine Farmar, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Liza Minelli, Luigi Bazini, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Gordon, Nina Hagen, Robert J. Sternberg, Rosa Luxemburg, Sander L. Gilman, Scott J. Thompson, Shinan Govani, Solomon Asch, Stephen Lemons, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Benjamin, Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Von Eckardt
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A BLIND DATE WITH BLIND FATE
”In both the film and its source, the scandalously popular novel by Fanny Hurst, Ray has economic and social options other than life in the Back Street. It may be the devil’s bargain under the patriarchy, but it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Bob Dylan, Bob Hope, Brief Encounter David Lean, Bright Lights Film Journal, Charles Boyer, David Lean, Fannie Hurst, Fanny Hurst, Germaine Greer, Irene Dunne, James mason, John Flaus, John M. Stahl, Lolita, Lucille Ball, Margaret Sullavan, Noel Coward, Stanley Kubrick, Susan White, Trevor Howard, Vladimir Nabokov, Werner Fassbinder
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