Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOE is the kind of movie that makes people start to hate irrationally and want to kill each other. I guess that's no small achievement, but it doesn't cover up the fact that this low-budget American film is a mindless exploitation picture; a quasi-political Beyond the...
McCarthy was also a master of telling an endless flow of little lies to sow doubt and distrust and play on peoples' emotions. For him discourse was a tool of exploitation. That is, language was to be used not for clarification and increased understanding, but for accusation, distortion, misrepresentation, denunciation...
In such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats-even to light fires or throw stones-for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain...
In Venice, where his new movie was shown last week, Author Norman Mailer staunchly came to the defense of Maidstone, which he wrote, directed and, naturally, starred in. Set in a brothel for girls, the film had been criticized by female viewers on the grounds that it exploits women. Retorted...
Next week the chief legal officers for the 13 states will meet to plan legal strategy. Even if their case fails, the states will try to soften the blow with two bills currently being considered by the House Judiciary Committee. The legislation would give the states rights to submerged resources...