Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bother any longer to dispute that bloodshed on TV and in the movies has an effect on the kids who witness it. Added to the mix now are video games, at least the ones built around the model of hunt and kill. Captivated by effects that are ever more graphic, game boys learn to associate gusts of "blood" with the primal gratifications of scoring. In Golden Eye, a big seller, the player spends nearly all his time drawing a bead on his victims down the barrel...
...brilliantly our moviemakers and television makers succeed in their work of the technological and artistic imagination, the more their audiences are transported back into the realm of the child-id that is most hospitable to fantasy--a zone of suspended disbelief wherein all things become possible, including deeds of graphic violence. It is sometimes said that too many television shows and movies are cynically targeted at 12-year-olds. That's not exactly the point: the makers of those shows in effect appropriate the imaginative world of the child because the youthful brain is the environment most frictionlessly sympathetic...
...effective, any stereotype (whether visual or verbal) must be highly-legible, unambiguous, and easily consumable. Walker's figures are not. Despite the incredible precision of their finely-cut outlines, it's impossible to really know what's going on inside their black, opaque fields. She brilliantly exploits the graphic irony and tension of her medium which seems to provide so much information and yet so little...
...somehow outlive similar controversy, like Robert Colescott and Kerry James Marshall who parody stereotypes in a more literal, straightforward way. Similarly sexual, scatological, or racially-charged, their work seems less threatening (and to my mind less satisfying), because it's far more unambiguous and transparent than Walker's graphic obliquity and elliptical narratives. Walker remarks, "There's lot of information that's not revealed for you. The viewer probably knows most of the story, maybe even more than...
...Budweiser talking frogs to sip a few brews, but they never, ever inhale. At least that's what Anheuser-Busch seemed to be saying when it threatened to sue a pro-marijuana Website depicting the amphibian trio croaking "Bud is wiser." Scott Jeffrey, the owner of legalize.com yanked the graphic but grabbed the domain, budiswiser.com "I have the constitutional right to parody," he says. And, he claims, to smoke pot regularly. Does Jeffrey inhale? "Definitely...