Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is a doggedly nasty piece of business made in blatant but inept imitation of Point Blank. While the violence in Point Blank defines some surreal and chilling points about the savagery of contemporary urban life, the mayhem in Get Carter is a gruesome and almost pornographic visual obsession. Fledgling DirectorMike Hodges clearly hoped to put together a jazzy paean to the classic detective story; the film's protagonist, in fact, is shown in a couple of scenes poring over a copy of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely. But Hodges seems to have learned more from Mickey...
...passed him up in favor of the less controversial Johnson, an economist and expert on industrial relations. Johnson promptly made Wiesner his chief academic officer. Together they handled student disruptions with great skill. They also began moving the university with such innovations as environmental studies and a center for visual arts...
...16th century, screen painting had become as central to the visual culture of traditional Japan as fresco painting was to Italians. The very size of byōbu-which run to a width of twelve feet and more-was an exacting test of the painter's virtuosity in handling watercolor or sumi ink across large areas; it made the paintings into a kind of environment conducive to meditation and withdrawal. Because they were made for domestic use, the imagery of byōbu is generally secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense...
...tricked usinto assuming we came to a psychological character study of four "complex individuals." This is very subversive. There are so many familiar patterns, so many familiar images to assure us we're in Bergman Country-all of which remain totally on the surface. The most notable of these visual references, to The Magician (The Face) and to Persona, imply that masks are now about to be pierced to reveal . . . but nothing could be farther from the truth...
...sitting against the wall across from the Pepsi-filled refrigerator turned to his wife to say "I'm glad we got here early ... It's half the fun." Groove Tube is at least as much fun as playing with balloons. Its 72-minute repertoire of video-taped comedy sketches, visual one-liners, and TV parodies is, with some exceptions, pleasant, if light-weight, entertainment...