Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the auction house, amid the deep carpets and the reverent murmur of bids, such prices are made to look like a belated homage to genius. In fact they are nothing of the kind. They represent a crass transformation of aesthetic experience into commodity. They stem from two iron rules...
Films like these are rare, however. And since film companies have continued to turn a blind eye to talent and have backed hacks who lose their money, they will be even rarer in the future. Lasting change in film has, in these past years, come mainly from those individual foreign...
Persona arrived in 1967, Godard was first wavering in his arrogant use of collage, and the Cinema Novo movement, meant to create new expressions for emerging cultures, was largely unknown. Bergman started questioning a career based on the expression of personal psychological torments. His previous themes were tied to a...
The greatest challenge, however, remains the analysis of a film which emerges from factual experience and, in the way it is molded, reveals important social and aesthetic prejudices of which the filmmakers themselves may not have been aware. Joel Haycock '71, while reviewing Gimme Shelter, speaks not only of a...
Progress has its aesthetic price, too.