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Ortiz decided to direct “Working” because, as a child, he never understood his father’s experiences as a Mexican migrant worker in the U.S. But performing as the migrant worker in a high school production of “Working” gave him new insight into his dad’s everyday life...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proletariart | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Moreover, Leyht is suspicious of art’s ability to communicate real understanding of the hardship of labor. While a play may help instill a new respect for workers, it cannot teach the audience what it is like to perform backbreaking work. That cannot be understood from a seat in a theater—or at least, Lehyt would not think so. “Art cannot directly address these things in any way that his helpful,” he says. “There is action and there is art. Art is about thinking about things...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proletariart | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...cinematic depictions of the Holocaust, Frodon urged, must be understood in their context—when they were made, by whom, and for what purpose. Historical inaccuracies should be noted, but artistic responses, even commercial Hollywood films, cannot be judged solely by their historical veracity...

Author: By Adam T. Horn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WWII Film Offers POV on Holocaust | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...country's flawed regulatory environment, its voracious hunger for resources, its geopolitical maneuvers in Africa and Asia: all have lent urgency to worries about the country's ascendancy. But not for John and Doris Naisbitt. To them, China is an unalloyed success, one whose virtues are too little understood. Take Internet censorship: "Actually, most of the concerns about the Internet are in Westerners' heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China's Megatrends is a Disappointment | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...reason for my nighttime writing adventure was to see what life is like on a massive content farm. I was working for Demand Media, the content-provider start-up that has quickly become the Web's least understood and most vilified juggernaut. The company has come up with a ruthlessly efficient way to churn out stories it knows will be profitable online. The topics may seem bizarre, but the method, though controversial, is unquestionably a success. (See the best social networking applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working for Demand Media: The Web's Biggest, Scariest Content Machine | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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