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"Doing Time" ($20; 240 pages) by Kazuichi Hanawa, also focuses on environmental details, but inside instead of out. As Fanfare/Ponent Mon's most interesting nouvelle manga book, it stands out mostly through the originality of its subject: an autobiography of the author's three years spent in the Japanese prison...
Disclaimer: This column didn’t start out as a liberal polemic, but that’s what it became.
1929 - British psychologist and founder of sexology Havelock Ellis finishes his seven-volume polemic Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Ellis refutes Freud and Krafft-Ebing by arguing that there is little distinction between sadism and masochism as the two are complementary emotional states. Ellis creates the modern conception of...
The only film that could be considered to have swayed a vote, McElwee notes, was Peter Davis’ 1974 anti-Vietnam polemic Hearts and Minds, which fueled the anti-war movement before that year’s Congressional midterm elections.
Their goal is an honorable one, and as a result, the film is refreshingly even-handed in its satire. Stone says he hasn’t even seen any of the recently released polemic documentaries, and although he was something of a keynote interview in Michael Moore’s...