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...question and answer session following the screening, viewers expressed surprise at seeing the Holocaust represented cinematically before the end of the war. Frodon explained that de Toth was sent by a news agency to film the situation in Poland in 1939, giving him some insight into the effects of Nazi rule, which is especially critical given the film’s Polish setting...
...Johnston, Heidi’s volatile best friend, Emily B. Hyman ’13 was both boisterous and comical. She portrayed extreme change with grace. At the play’s beginning, she is a loud member of a woman’s collective in Montana. By the end, she is one more discouraging force in Heidi’s life. “I mean, equal rights is one thing, equal pay is one thing, but blaming everything on being a woman is just passé,” she says at one point...
...popular treatment of Hipsters involves disdain and pejorative connotations that distort any honest examination. The aforementioned Haddow wrote what is the finest portrayal of the Hipster for an AdBusters article in 2008, but the title alone, “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization,” leaves no doubts about the decided standpoint of the examiner. Too much is lost, however, by relegating Hipsterdom to bitter derision and resignation. It is also, I would argue, impossible to engage modern culture, popular and ‘counter,’ without recognizing prominent ideological and descriptive features marking...
...normalized, but focal points. Similarly, the self-awareness of multi-lingual subtitles and the reference to rumors of Gaga’s male genitalia are post-modernity’s most glamorous public manifestation in their use of the discourse around the text being part of the end product. And like the prevalence of Urban Outfitters and American Apparel as purveyors of the Hipster v-neck t-shirt, the video and celebrity are the beneficiaries of corporate acceptance. The pan-sexuality of Gaga is ‘counter-cultural’ to the extent that her work maintains corporate sponsorship...
Twain’s problematic use of comedic flexibility culminates in the novel’s controversial final scene. At the end of the novel, Jim is recaptured after a failed escape attempt and appears to be on the brink of being sold back into slavery. Miraculously, Jim is saved when Tom reveals that the whole escape plan was an elaborate game—Jim was already freed by his mistress on her deathbed. Some critics have criticized this ending as an evasion that allows Twain to avoid dealing with the evils of slavery, while others have defended the scene...