Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUPLES, by John Updike. Wife swapping is the game, described in living off-color, but soul saving is the real stake in this rich and subtly rewarding novel by the crown prince of American letters...
...billion, and median family income is approaching $8,000 a year?about $2,000 more than that of the country with the next highest standard of living. Sweden. The accouterments of affluence are everywhere: Americans possess more than 60 million automobiles, 70 million television sets (10 million with color), $500 billion worth of common stock. At least two-thirds of U.S. families own their homes...
Scope & Symptoms. Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread...
...FILMS of Jacques Demy, small variations on a small theme, appear roughly every other year and make no significant contribution whatsoever to world cinema. The prime mover in Demy's light-struck multi-color Disneyland is coincidence, a capricious often fascinating quality, granted, but not one of your big themes--hardly an equivalent to Resnais's concern with time or Lang's with fate. Demy's constructs lack true vision, instead wallow joyously in the mechanical: lovers wander marionette-like (often singing) looking for their true loves, forced by Demy to miss one another by seconds until the romantic...
...nothing else, Demoiselles has abandoned itself to love and chance, casting aside the restraint that characterizes the form and color of Demy's previous Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, a strangely gloomy film marked more than anything else by ugly purple wallpaper. Shot in primary colors which contrast with dominant whites (not unlike Godard's Le M*epris), Demoiselles is less a synthetic than Cherbourg because of its reliance on apparently natural light sources and location sets. A ubiquitous sunlight links the interiors to the outdoor shots much better than Demy's style is able...