Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWO TRADITIONS are evident in current documentary film work-conventional documentary and direct cinema (sometimes loosely termed cinema verite). Both styles work to transform an ambiguous, undifferentiated reality into sets of contradictions; their stance toward reality is ironic. But the means and indeed than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to...
THE MAYSLES brothers have thus picked up the cudgel in that tired old liberal crusade against the commercialization of religion. Implications might be drawn, weighty ones, about the nature of a commence-ransacked religion; about the everyday violence perpetrated by modern-day moneychangers of the cloth, about a ruling class...
Seeing the same qualities in Italian, French, Czech, and American directors may appear sweeping and uncritical, but there are good historical reasons for it. American audiences which go one night to see Antonioni and the next Godard, and like them for the same things, are implicitly recognizing a clear line...
Use anything. Properly qualified, this elliptical phrase will do to summarize the working aesthetic of the latest effort by the Harvard Dramatic Club Summer Players, a group which has been forming elegantly, there four summers now, in the center ring of our sweaty free-form carnival. That qualification, then: Use...
There is something basically exciting about matching oneself against the best there is, even if defeat is certain. Just as in the last decades, when playing the Yankees was a moving, if disheartening experience. Laver's fellow pros enjoy meeting him in a tournament. It is an aesthetic experience, but...