Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...absurdly specific guidelines the parties hashed out before the event have already been widely reported—and ridiculed—even in the generally pliant mainstream American media. Instead of a meaningful discourse, Americans heard prepared answers to questions on pre-approved issues in a pre-negotiated format. Friday’s program was not a debate by traditional standards: It resembled a contest to see who could go ninety minutes without slipping-up more than it did an effort to delve into the complicated substance of pressing issues like the bubbling quagmire of Iraq, nuclear proliferation...
...Toback’s aversion to studio filmmaking could hardly be described as ideological. His films typically take on issues that are not commonly approached in contemporary mainstream filmmaking...
...Toback sees the Hollywood of today as a kind of dead space in which filmmakers are always pushed to “shoot for the middle.” He sees dealing honestly with adverse topics a near impossibility in the mainstream cinematic landscape...
Toback may seem overzealous in his denouncement of the tenets of Hollywood cinema, but, nonetheless, it’s difficult to deny that very few mainstream directors could pull off not only the sexual content, but also some of the visual and especially sonic experimentation of When Will I Be Loved in a studio setting. This is to say nothing of his earlier films, particularly considering that his latest is actually more digestible than more intense offerings like 1999’s racially charged drama Black and White...
This year, Harvard Square’s political activism is moving out of the Pit and into the mainstream. Even Harvard’s athletes are banding together, determined to make a difference in the upcoming election. Nate T. Picarsic ’07, a wrestler from Pittsburgh, PA, is afraid that “young people won’t vote” in November’s election...