Word: didacticism
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If Dirty War can be didactic and self-congratulatory, it also smartly balances a thriller's plotting with an astute eye for politics and bureaucratic idiocy. Whether you consider it a gripping, worthy scare or titillating scaremongering may depend on whether you think it is a fair warning or a...
Part Telemundo, part Imitation of Life, Spanglish seems to deal mostly with the inevitable cultural clash between Mexican immigrants and Americans. Still, it plays itself out carefully, never dabbling in Manichean dramatics to make banal statements about assimilation. It doesn’t make light of the cultural clash, but...
The Herald found itself in a whirlwind of controversy after publishing graphic photographs of a bloody Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson student killed during Red Sox rioting in Boston. Any didactic dimension of the photos was lost on hordes of appalled readers. Though the paper later issued a next-day apology...
Unfortunately, Around the Sun fails to explore any new terrain for the band. Songs like “Make it Okay” and “Aftermath” recycle past R.E.M guitar lines, and Michael Stipe’s vocals sound disinterested and rangeless. “The...
The indelibility of the printed image is played with too, as well as its precision: There are modern woodcuts and prints that are deliberately altered after impression. The moment of the act of printing might have passed, just as the era of the print is fading, but therein lies the...