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...came to dominate the American cultural landscape. Will Smith may today be one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men, but a few short years ago he was simply Philadelphia's ranking rapper, aka The Fresh Prince. And could Chris Rock have emerged as America's preeminent standup comic - making audiences laugh nervously as he rants on about hating "niggers" - without two decades of hip-hop having passed under the bridge...
...These pictures are stuffed with detail, and the later sequences are, in comparison, a relief. The two most captivating series, Small Passion and Engraved Passion, represent a more restrained DŸrer. In the Small Passion, he creates what Fogg Museum print curator Marjorie Cohn describes as a comic book-like effect: 36 prints, each one possessing a strong left-to-right dynamic, pull the viewer through the Christian narrative, from original sin to the last judgment. This series of doctrinal woodcuts, which were, unlike engravings, cheap and available to great swaths of society, takes advantage of mass media...
...even close. But consider that "The Magic Flute" began as an 18th-century version of pop-culture entertainment just like "Pokemon Live." Furthermore, "The Magic Flute" gets its imagery from the Masons, a no less enigmatic cult than the Pokemon series of video games, television shows, movies and comic books. Both "Pokemon Live" and "Magic Flute" are deeply rooted in the iconography of their time...
...been dubbed by the adult he would become--the adult who became Crowe. Watchful and open, skeptical but not cynical, Fugit manages to embody both the child and the man, the boy who went on the trip and the writer who would remember it and shape it into comic drama...
...expected to fit into their calendars. Nobody is suggesting a government body to meddle in popular culture. The real aim here is to intimidate the entertainment companies into reining in themselves, as they did with the bumptious movie-industry Hays office of the 1930s and '40s and the Comics Magazine Association of America, an industry group formed in 1954 after Senate hearings into bloody and smutty comic books. It gave its seal of approval only to comic books that went easy on the cleavage and eye gouging. Most retailers would not sell comics that did not earn the association...