Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that independent films have the freedom of opportunity to take on a smaller subject, a more intimate subject, something a little more daring. Actually, once you get out of the big cities--like Boston, New York, Chicago--where there is a limited number of theaters, an independent film gets pushed out of the market. So I think especially so for regional festivals, I mean there are certain big festivals, I mean there are certain big festivals that become a great launching pad for independent films. We're the ones who actually can bring them around to areas where they...
...enormous, baggy subject--from the confidence of the gilded age to the imperial anxieties of the cold war; from a portrait by Thomas Eakins to a green humanoid by William Baziotes; from Stanford White's classicism to the democratic boxes of post- World War II Levittown; from Alfred Stieglitz's immigrants on shipboard to Robert Frank's visions of the underface of big-city America...
Best not to know this about Greer, perhaps, and better to read her book for its flashes of light on a perpetually murky subject. And best too to let Greer have the last word, since she will no doubt seize it anyway. "I don't want to tell people to do anything," she says. "I have put down what makes my heart ache, and either it will be helpful to people...
...white and cold is heat; for what I worshiped stole my love away, it was the ground beneath her feet." The words are expressive but minimal and emotional, a style Rushdie might have stuck to when writing other parts of the book. The nature of celebrity is a subject Rushdie tackles with aplomb, yielding a few entertaining bits of satire. His celebrities are drugged up, swaggering, stylized and often foolish. Through Vina and her famous friends, Rushdie shows us how fame is often unfulfilling, lonely and trifling. Andy Warhol's cultured set is brilliantly satirized, as is the delirious glam...
...sessions" highlighted agency in the industry. yet, in a capitalist system, agency really rests on consumers--music won't sell that the masses won't purchase. To consider this one aspect of an amplification of audience is to consider how the musical genre may be subject to a dilution of substance through absorption by this very capitalist culture...