Word: milieu
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Referring to the milieu in which he grew up, and in which the Indian film industry has developed, as “a kind of conflictual tapestry,” Benegal attended to the difficulties of representing minorities within India—and representing Muslims in particular. “I attempt to play across rather than to stereotypes,” he explained...
Referring to the milieu in which he grew up, and in which the Indian film industry has developed, as “a kind of conflictual tapestry,” Benegal attended to the difficulties of representing minorities within India—and representing Muslims in particular. “I attempt to play across rather than to stereotypes,” he explained...
Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English, who also helped moderate the discussion, brought up another category of border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding...
...outset of her career Sontag produced two fairly bloodless novels, The Benefactor and Death Kit. Neither one made it seem that fiction was her natural milieu. But she went on to publish some fine and original short stories and eventually returned to the novel with new juices flowing. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who sets up a utopian commune in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural critic that she made her lasting mark. "Sometimes," she once said, "I feel that...
...they’re spoon-fed rather than seek out information and evaluate it critically. White’s diagnosis would explain why voters seem increasingly willing to buy into prepackaged, spin-dried versions of the truth while tuning out inconvenient facts. In today’s polarized political milieu, many Americans would rather march in lockstep with Michael Moore or Bill O’Reilly than draw their own conclusions on each issue...