Word: post-modernism
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...Sadly, post-modern playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris last week. Not to worry: the Theater of the Absurd is alive and well at Harvard. An improvisational troupe, which performs every Sunday night in random locations, provides immense entertainment for beleaguered students. In keeping with the principles developed by Ionesco, Beckett, and Gide, the dramatic group refers to itself with a symbolically august title: the Undergraduate Council...
...those who prefer to think in post-modern terms, Brazil offers the high and the low, especially when it merges the ideals of romantic love with a perpetual state of rut. The results include "the muck of the psyche," where "sex is nature's dirty work" and "perversity, like chastity, overcomes the bestial drive." The couple's caves of love take many forms: the leafy median of a busy highway, glittering condominium apartments, primitive gold- mining camps and the floor of the Amazon. The sacred and the profane are part of the same ooze. Lyricism mingles with basic Anglo-Saxon...
...nonfiction versus fiction" in filmmaking. A true realist, McElwee describes documetary filmmaking ideally as the "objective presentation of visual images shot from reality." But he concedes, "I guess there's no strain of the purely objective anywhere in the film...That kind of objectivity, we all realize in this post-modern era, is an impossibility. You can't be objective." He cites Errol Morris, the make of "A Thin Blue Line" and "A Brief History of Time," as the most "noticeble" explorer of this question. Both of these films document men's lives: one is the story of someone wrongly...
Whether in person or in his films, McElwee relates the malaise and tragedy so prevalent in our times and so endemic to the south, in a language of post-modern metaphysics mixed with dry humor. A native Southerner, form Charlotte, North Carolina, McElwee return to the South for the majority of his films. He admits that his "soul and film making reside in the South, at home." He chooses to live in Brookline, though, because there is a "collection of people in the Boston and Cambridge areas who are pressing at the margins of what it means to make documentary...
...spends his life attempting to make 'virtual reality' possible. When Beigh has gathered enough information about Hannah's life, Venn will be able to program the computer to create a simulation of Hannah's life. It is unfortunate that this compelling historical novel must be filtered through this ostensibly post-modern narrative voice, one that is simply unworkable, intrusive, and weird. Mukherjee's attempt to encapsulate the essence of a contemporary American context fails and indeed takes away from her mastery over the other historical contexts with which she is working...