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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course the cultural radicals and technoanarchists who make up the alternate television movement operate in a context far different from the sort of things they envision. Indeed, operating in a vacuum-that is, off the air-they are reversing the hardware-first, software-second pattern that has characterized the development of the television networks. Since the programming by groups like Raindance, People's Video Theatre and Videofreex, three New York City groups who make up a loosely formed alliance, does not appear on the public screens, they can operate with much greater freedom and they have literally to take their...
...this context, it becomes obvious how the profit motive and resulting structure of the television industry are solely responsible for its paltry content. The very fact that television programming is bought by commercial sponsorship means that the primary function of any program is to sell the product that sponsors...
...film's failure is most tragic when viewed in today's film context. Taking advantage of student disaffection with the working-class, some New York City ex-ad-men fashioned Joe to play right into the fantasies of the more naive paranoids-and found themselves with the '70's first box-office smash. It is Peter Boyle's image of a gun-toting psychopath that has replaced Ralph Kramden as a symbol of the "lower depths" for the upper and middle classes. There hasn't been a decent manual laborer since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made...
...Hugh Thomas, is not Prince Hamlet, not was meant to be, in the normal sense. He is one-dimensional in the extreme. Luckily, Thomas is a fine actor who carries off the part rather well, making himself believable, even though his character is out of place in the context of the play. At some points, though, he loses credibility, especially...
Jones also stressed that yesterday's incident has to be seen in the context of Panther harassment in other cities and in light of past Boston Police provocation. "As recently as last Monday a brother was arrested in front of the office. They're trying to get to us like they got to Fred Hampton in Chicago," he said...