Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Available Light puts emphasis on the exploitative nature of photography, which isn't a new idea exactly, but which serves an interesting function in the film's formal structure. On the narrative level we are told that financial pressures forced the filmmakers to sell a particular sequence of the photographer...
Conspicuous consumption is another target. "While very large areas of the population are unable to satisfy their primary needs, superfluous needs are ingeniously created. Is [man] not now becoming the slave of the objects he makes?" Paul also scores the "ill-considered exploitation of nature" that may create "an environment...
As is often the case in Latin America, the reasons for Cuba's melancholy failure at democracy go back a long way. In the first half of his book Thomas deals with everything from 1762, when the British captured Havana, to Castro's 1959 takeover. He cites the...
Threatened by the effect the exposure of the FBI information would have had upon his career, the Martin Luther King of Montgomery, the 26-year-old pastor of Dexter, would unquestionably have kept his compromise with the system. He would have opted for protecting his name and that of his...
TAKEN in broad outline, the ten lives are little more than the stuff of which youth exploitation films are made: Dave is the revolutionist who exceeds the activism of his father, an Old Left professor, by leading the seizure of University Hall: Roy is the black, native son of Mississippi...