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This list is of articles that discuss television, film, and their cultures.
Updated on Nov 27, 10
Created on Nov 12, 10
Category: Entertainment & Arts
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Clark Waggoner's List: Film and Television
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Nov 12, 10
This article discusses the ramifications of over-compression and volume tricks currently employed in television advertisements and the negative effects of these things on our ears and lives. This disturbing trend reinforces the new American identity as the epitome of consumer in a world of over-consumptive advertisements and marketing ploys in media.
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Nov 12, 10
This article explores some of the reasons behind and ramifications over-sequeled Hollywood we come to know over past decade or so. It seems that any film can get a sequel these days (Barber Shop 2 leaps mind). Is this tolling bell sounds end Hollywood? Have all the most creative minds really gone over to video games and marketing? Why else would we be recycling
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Nov 12, 10
This article reviews Richard Kelly's (director of the cult hit Donnie Darko) often mal-aligned and misunderstood post-apocalyptic film, The Southland Tales. The article challenges the notion that the film is a failure and seeks to establish a new and different critical appraisal for Richard Kelly as a young filmmaker with tons of potential.
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Nov 21, 10
This article is a review of the foreign film, Il Postino. The film focuses on a small island in the Mediterranean and the simple life of the people there that is disrupted when world famous poet Pablo Neruda is exiled to their island. The film speaks to the transformative and renewing power of poetry.
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Nov 21, 10
This article examines the character of Tyler Durden with an a discussion of a comparison of film to literature and the issues confront Hollywood in the past 15 years. The article takes an interesting stance on the aim of literary criticism, using a similarity between character transformation and medium transformation as a criticism of the medium transformation, not just the artistic one within the novel and/or film.
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Nov 22, 10
This article reviews 1997 Best Actor Winning Film, Life is Beautiful. A film set during the Holocaust about a father and his quest to protect his son from the dangers of WWII. It has won over 30 international film awards. Additionally, it was written, directed, and starred in by Roberto Benigni.
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Nov 27, 10
This article re-examines the 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine by filmmaker Michael Moore. The film explores the tragedy at Columbine High School and asks questions about how this could have happened. This article examines the themes of the film, as well as the reactions of people watching the film for the first time, including the reactions of the reviewer.
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Nov 27, 10
This article re-examines the 1993 film, Six Degrees of Separation. The film stars Will Smith, Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing and concerns itself with culture, art, and human relationships in an ever changing and evolving postmodern world. This article examines and explains the film’s complex and often confusing subject matter and treatment of its themes.
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