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...With each issue focused on a singular artist or genre - Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and the religious tracts of Jack T. Chick have each been a subject - this year's book examines Mexico's historietas. Depicting every imaginable perversity these small, square booklets exist in a cultural twilight zone. While immensely popular, they are considered basura (trash) by everyone involved, including the people who make them, and therefore utterly ignored. Like a twisted lovechild of Hunter S. Thompson and Susan Sontag, Raeburn delves into the history, meaning and value of these nasty comix, coming up with a fascinating book that...
...aesthetics of the church complement the dance in unexpected ways. The stained glass filters the waning light and by 6 p.m. the church is awash in a peach and cobalt glow. As twilight approaches, the dancer’s bending shadows are cast on the church’s stone walls. The audience seated in an intimate three-tier platform directly in front of the dancers challenges the traditional distance between performer and viewer. Cabaret-like tables pepper the tiers. Reminiscent of smoke-filled clubs, the Weimar republic and Marlene Dietrich, Mateo says the tables allow the audience...
Strangely, the Pentecostal phenomenon is only beginning to enter the American consciousness. Many of us at Harvard believe we’re living in what Nietzsche called the “twilight of the idols,” a time when the broken crumbs of religion left over from the pre-modern era will soon be swept away. In the future, religion (and especially Christianity) becomes an irrelevant anachronism. For over 300 years, since Voltaire’s time, Western intellectuals have announced that God is dead or nearly so, and He will soon be gone for good...
...back then, we joked about it--if not on TV, then in movies like Dr. Strangelove. (TV worked more elliptically, through cold-war anxiety parables such as those on the Twilight Zone, which, by the way, returns this fall on UPN, hosted by Forrest Whitaker.) If a writer turned Beene's bomb-shelter scene into a bioterror scare in a sitcom set in the present, it wouldn't make it past the first-draft stage at a major network. Perhaps that's the hidden value of cultural nostalgia. It hints that the past was not better but worse than today...
...deal of the trend. 'In the shadow of 9/11,'" he says, "'are people looking back for comfort?' Well, yes. Shouldn't they be? That's what [TV] is supposed to do." (Yes, NBC promoted Dreams heavily during its Sept. 11-anniversary coverage.) These shows aren't alone. Besides the Twilight Zone, this season offers remakes of such cold-war fare as Family Affair, Dragnet and The Time Tunnel. Hairspray has brought a campier take on the early '60s to Broadway. And, as Littlefield notes, "Who was the big winner at the box office? Spider...