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About Reality Bites Back. Articles & Essays. Lectures & Workshops. Fun with Media Literacy. About Reality Bites Back. Jennifer Pozner’s Reality Bites Back is an extraordinary gift to critical media literatureThis should be required reading for every American girl and woman. Melissa Harris-Perry, Professor, Princeton University; Analyst MSNBC; Columnist,. More advance praise for Reality Bites Back! What does it mean to be female in America? The resulting picture of America displayed through the lens of.
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About Reality Bites Back. Articles & Essays. Lectures & Workshops. Fun with Media Literacy. Lectures & Workshops. Want to share the analysis in. Want to learn how to critically respond to media stereotypes discussed in the book? Author Jennifer L. Pozner has been presenting keynote speeches and multimedia presentations about reality television since. First began handing out the long-stems, Kelly Clarkson sang her first note on. America’s Next Top Model. Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV Is Bad for Women.
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A Film Odyssey: July 2006
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Monday, July 31, 2006. Retrospective: Part I (The Prequels). It seems like hypocrisy to point out in the opening sentence of a mammoth article on all three films, no less that the Star Wars. Prequels (along with any other number of big-budget enterprises in the past few years, Matrix. Sequels and numerous Harry Potter. S among them) are among the most overly ballyhooed movies in recent memory (not to mention Star Wars. In general). So why, you ask, am I giving them even more. Represents, for me, part of ...
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A Film Odyssey:
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The Wicker Man (1973). Thank (or blame - you decide) David Cronenberg’s 1986 masterpiece remake of The Fly. For the existence of the 1988 remake of The Blob. A box office cash-in that is neither particularly good, bad, or ugly. Instead, it falls into the rare camp of being a quizzically interesting companion piece, building upon the original. Feature: Horror Marathon 2006. Posted by rob humanick on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 4:16 PM. Bride of Frankenstein (1935). 19th St...
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The Wicker Man (1973). James Whale’s homoerotic subversions aside, the Universal monster films, by their very nature, weren’t exactly open to the greatest range of subtext. This makes it all the more refreshing to see a gem like The Wolf Man. Which creates a far more nuanced and affecting personal conflict than many another works with far bigger canvas’s on which to work. Like 1933’s The Invisible Man. There is no true villain at the center of The Wolf Man. It's only a movie.
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). World Trade Center (2006). The one-two punch of 1931’s Dracula. Jumpstarted Universal’s long-running monsters series, and if the need to get a fresh product into theaters as quickly as possible was the prevalent feeling (so as to keep the box office dollars rolling), then 1932’s The Mummy. Is proof of what comes from studio executives with hungry dollar signs in their eyes. I might fault Dracula. I suspected a droll rehash of Dracula.
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Through a hallucinatory combination of desaturated images and muffled audio (as if implying that the viewer themselves is in the state of a trance), Vampyr. Given the emphasis placed on mood, it is unsurprising that the scenes committed to narrative exposition are among Vampyr. Is but a dream on film (which is to say it’s not nearly as complex as any of Lynch’s dream-within-a-dreams, although at times its just as seductive as his Mulholland Drive. 19th Street Civic Theatre.
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The Wicker Man (1973). Both uses and forges clichés (was this the first film to feature a self-destruct mechanism? In perfectly approximated portions, its sly wit largely the result of the Mr. Whale being forced to weave his potentially offensive material beneath the film’s surface. Today’s Hollywood barely has tolerance for gay sensibilities, let alone that of 1935. Retroactively speaking, we’re all the better for it; Bride of Frankenstein. Comes close to being unrivaled. Feature: Horror Marathon 2006.
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A Film Odyssey: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006. The Battle of Algiers. The mishmash of production values cobbled together to form the riveting political docudrama The Battle of Algiers. Further oppress the people’s culture and religion. With neither side showing any sign of giving up, the bodies continue to mount on both sides, many of them innocent civilians willingly sacrificed as violent leverage in the name of war. Perhaps most illuminating is how The Battle of Algiers. Posted by rob humanick at 4:46 PM. Being lifted above t...
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A Film Odyssey: August 2006
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Saturday, August 26, 2006. S theatrical, minimalist approach (reminiscent of the stage directions typically employed for performances of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Quite obviously alludes to American culture in a number of ways, to classify it as nothing more than an anti-American tirade is, to quote directly from the film, condescending. In the end, the film paints its barbarous implications on all parties with equal viciousness. Posted by rob humanick at 8:59 PM. Under the influence, and incredibly in...
