Word: socio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that photographic images have to be "read"; they are signs in the same way that mimetic movements are-they have meaning only within a sign system. How images are read is part of the dominant ideology of a community-its superstructure, determined in large measure by socio-economic relations of members within the community. Our standards of realistic representation are therefore not our own, but rather those of a given system of economic relationships...
This same device of juxtaposing the mores of characters from wildly different socio-economic constituencies also pays off in an amusing sequence involving a dinner at Joe's house in Queens for the adman and his wife. (Joe and his spouse's social habits prove totally incomprehensible to the affluent couple-and vice versa.) Granted this device is as old as time; still, it has served movies well, from such American Depression comedies as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night to such recent sophisticated Kitsch as the current Mick Jagger Performance...
This same device of juxtaposing the mores of characters from wildly different socio-economic constituencies also pays off in an amusing sequence involving a dinner at Joe's house in Queens for the adman and his wife. (Joe and his spouse's social habits prove totally incomprehensible to the affluent couple-and vice versa.) Granted this device is as old as time; still, it has served movies well, from such American Depression comedies as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night to such recent sophisticated kitsch as the current Mick Jagger Performance...
There is one internal stimulus that industry does respond to most expeditiously: an unfavorable profit-and-loss statement. An enlightened buying public can help prevent America's socio-ecological crisis from becoming a fait accompli...
...Bonn. In Washington, Correspondents Jerry Hannifin and John Mulliken drew extensively on U.S. Government sources; in New York, our Russian desk added fur ther expertise. The actual stories were put together under the di rection of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss. The piece on Russia's political and socio-economic climate was written by William Doerner, while David Tinnin completed the mosaic with the report on the military...