Tag Archives: Lord of the Flies

wild boys: remnants of middle class decency

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

Social realism unvarnished, unplugged, with America as a near gulag in gritty depression era society on the edge between starvation and death. Poverty, hypocrisy, opportunism are all explored in pre-code Hollywood where hand to mouth representations of living and ambiguous … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged frankie darro, freddie bartholomew, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hays Commission, jackie cooper, joe breen, joe breen enforced code, John Steinbeck, Lord of the Flies, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud repression, William Golding, William Wellman | Leave a comment

guess whose coming to dinner?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading →