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Category Archives: Art
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
By Adam Mastroianni Source: Experimental History You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. In 2021, only one of the ten top-grossing films––the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy––was an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Film, media, Media Literacy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Art, Corporate Consolidation, corporate media, culture, Economics, film, liturature, Mass Media, media, Media Literacy, music, oligopoly, Pop Culture, proliferation, Reboots, Remakes, Sequels, society, Sociology, spinoffs, Television, Video Games
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Saturday Matinee: Gloria’s Call
Source: GloriasCall.com From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is foreverchanged through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Cheri Gaulke, Documentary, Feminism, Gloria Orenstein, Gloria's Call, Leonora Carrington, Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim, surrealism
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Father John Misty
Saturday Matinee: Blue Thunder
Looking back at Blue Thunder John Badham’s high-tech helicopter thriller Blue Thunder rode the crest of a decade obsessed with cool cars and aircraft… By Ryan Lambie Source: Den of Geek Back in the 1980s, a company called Sega perfected … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Blue Thunder, Dystopia, John Badham, Malcolm McDowell, Roy Scheider, surveillance state
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Negativland Tears for Fears
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Anything Else, Break the Man, Negativland, Tears for Fears
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Saturday Matinee: Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
By JPRoscoe Source: Basement Rejects Launching in 1974, the Z Channel became one of the first pay cable channels. The channel eventually morphed into a movie channel highlighting directors, art films, and championing original visions portrayed on the screen. One … Continue reading
Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris Hedges Report There is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, censorship, civil liberties, culture, freedom of speech, media, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alice Walker, Art, Bay Area Book Festival, censorship, civil liberties, David Icke, Israel, liturature, MDS Movement, Palestine, Religion, The Bible, The Color Purple
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Sturgill Simpson
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Make Art Not Friends, Sturgill Simpson, Turtles All the Way Down
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Desultory Heroics 