Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A Materialist Cinema: It is the duty of the cinematic revolutionary to illuminate, develop, and demystify the daily contradictions that make the revolution-a hope, an option, a necessity, a reality-in the minds of the oppressed. He must never neglect the all-important relation between analysis and praxis, nor...
Lonnie Corder, a 19-year-old University of Oklahoma freshman, recently placed a classified ad in the Oklahoma Daily: "Are your parties a little dull? Rent a hippie. Nothing that will spoil the atmosphere, just add that little aesthetic flavor." Now, at $10 an hour, some affluent gentry of Norman...
In the first four episodes, hero Scott takes girl-friend Emily to see Citizen Kane. discusses the film with her and his love-life with friends B. N. C. and Harvard culture-cultist Steve, takes his suit to the dry cleaners in preparation for a date at the Museum of...
WHILE the filmmaker-revolutionaries of our "developed" culture are busily spinning abstract "fabrics of contradiction," using the formal tools of High Intellectuality, Glauber Rocha has created a vital and concrete anti-imperialist Cinema Novo in Brazil with the forms of a crude dialectic generated organically out of revolutionary struggle. The...
There may be alternative means for smashing this larger-than-life image as well, non-ideological means that undermine the metaphysical foundations of the established culture, laying bare more and more contradictions of the system. In seeking new possibilities for the novel, Robbe-Grillet has pointed out "the destitution of...