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...R.C.Try this one on: Star Wars was pioneering in its technology but retro in its content. In the movies that you and I saw when we were growing up, movies were trying to be adult. And one of the things that Star Wars did was validate the Saturday-matinee impulse in filmmakers-which meant that there were a lot fewer exciting films by the best filmmakers that were made for adults...
...mean that Godard, Bergman, Fellini, they were stretching film form. Adult movies now are adult in content: the equivalent of the Elia Kazan movies...
...R.C.They?re adult in content. The idea of pioneering form is not so important...
...that phrase, “walled garden,” has complicated connotations, both historically and in the context of media outlets. Online, it has come to suggest monopoly and content lock-in (that is, practices designed to maintain even unhappy customers by constructing barriers to exit) as much as it has privacy: America Online (AOL) was referred to in the mid 90s as a walled garden because they denied their subscribers access to the Internet at large and denied outsiders access to the content created within. This made it difficult for AOL users to leave and enjoy the fruits...
...Saturdays. Liu said he has been rapping for three to four years now and has won some smaller competitions in his hometown of New York City. “I’m not really a battle rapper. I enjoy writing with more content and the battle ones can be taunting and embarrassing,” said Liu. “Hip-hop has a steep tradition in competition and I appreciate that aspect, but it’s not what I do best.” Liu’s performance left both Jacoby and President of WHRB, Jonathan...