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Tag Archives: James Agee
moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou
Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers
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examining the cracks
Play as an irrational pre-cultural activity. Fairytales have profound psychological meanings. Or so though Helen Levitt. In Europe, Mussolini was washing the Italian public through a cinematic industry that would gouge out the real for the most kitschy dog-show nonsense … Continue reading
spearheading
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Spearhead New Directions, 1947 Design: Alvin Lustig Spearhead was an anthology of the best of the New Directions annuals published between 1936-46 and from other sources. It was meant to … Continue reading
looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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an angel screaming its last song is redemptive
Are the boundaries between high culture and low culture artificial and easily disolvable?Do such boundaries simply repeat, enhance and reinforce one another in a homogenous system which underpins the essence of consumption and the market economy? In the 1920’s Walter … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Elisa Kreisinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Harold Bloom, Henry Jenkins, James Agee, Jonathan McIntosh, Lawrence Lessig, Political Remix Videos PRV, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin
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ceremonies of innocence: zesty improvised lives
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Before Helen Levitt and James Agee worked together on the documentary “The Quiet One” , they had planned to collaborate on a book of photographs and text. Levitt took the … Continue reading
like a brick in their pocket : and now What? …
Why not strive for fame. “The Bitter Ones” say its a need to be envied and that going “viral”- a term which is in itself a euphemism for something that doesn’t exist, is virtual, and has no real meaning- is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brent Hartinger, Britney Spears, Casey Affleck, Chaplin, Cintra Wilson, Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, James Agee, Joaquin Pheonix, John Cameron Mitchell, Leah McClaren, Martin A. Gardner, Matthew Brady, Michel Houellebecq, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, The Marx Brothers, Tom Gunning
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THE BEAST OF THE EAST:MELODRAMA OF MORALS
“Many of Griffith’s features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism. But Way Down East highlights the greatness of Griffith without having to sit through the Sermon on the Mount or the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A. Nicholas Vardac, Anthony Paul Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, David Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Hal Erickson, James Agee, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lillian Gish, Lottie Blair Parker, Paul Brenner, Sergei Eisenstein, Tim Dirks, V.I. Pudovkin, Vardac, William A. Brady
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