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...just as obsessed with violence as today, viewers before the Vietnam era wouldn’t be able to get their fix of it from film and television then like they can now. When people saw the violence in Vietnam and the caskets coming home, the response was both shock and anger; it was these feelings that culminated in the peace movement that has been so emblemized in American history. What has changed since then?Everything. 24/7 news stations, the internet, satellite communications, digital photography, and a film and TV rating system that goes from...
...Spring.” “The cultural context of Paris in 1913, the context of the Russian Ballet, the context of the ballet within the program of the evening…It was deliberately ‘primitive’ and ethnographic, and Diaghilev hoped it would shock. The Rite was positioned for a riot.”Perhaps most relevant to the “ingénue” America was Diaghilev’s fateful acquisition of a new, young choreographer named George Balanchine, who would later come to America and revolutionize ballet with...
...night.” By contrast, Nell (Collette Wolfe), a crippled coffee shop server, plays a more human, likable, and sympathetic character, even if it remains unclear why she insists on liking Ronnie in the first place. Surprisingly, “Observe and Report” scores high on shock value in several moments, featuring explicit (and often cringe-inducing) nudity and visual violence. As Ronnie takes down six crack dealers on a dark corner with a single stick, the camera immediately zooms in on a dislocated joint and shows Ronnie kicking a thug’s already bloodied face...
...Zurich—ever really occurred.“The Posthuman Dada Guide” is destabilizing and it’s meant to be. Codrescu both writes about Dada and writes in the Dada style, so, in the spirit of his nonsense-brandishing predecessors, he uses absurdity to shock his reader out of a dangerous mindset of logic and reason. But caught in the fetters of fact, Codrescu is unable to completely release himself into the meaningful randomness of Dada. Instead, his “Guide,” comes across more confused than absurd. Codrescu offers the reader...
...boot-shaped peninsula spent Friday absorbing the broadcast images of the state funeral for the victims of the L'Aquila earthquake: a toy motorcycle placed on top of one such mini-casket; a purple jumper attached to another; surviving relatives collapsing in tears; others bearing the empty gaze of shock...