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...first video, “PATTY,” takes its subject matter from the security-camera footage of Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), robbing a bank along with her captors. The piece incorporates aspects of the SLA’s manifesto, fairy tales, 1970s horror and science-fiction film, TV news interviews and would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas’ radical feminist “SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rebecca Lieberman ’10 | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...don’t think it’s right to shoot people, unless you really, really have to,” she says. “But nonetheless I think it’s important to come up with a reading of [Solanas’ manifesto]. There are a lot of guys who shot people or strangled their wives or knifed them to death, and they continue to be taken seriously. I’m really not condoning that...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medalist | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...reality”—one conveys. Shields writes, “[It’s] not the story. It’s just this breathtaking world—that’s the point.” If these are the foundations of Shields’ manifesto, has all of this not been said before? Can Shields be given credit for tracking the development of a “new” art form that, considering the work of artists as diverse as Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett—both of whom Shields references extensively throughout...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shield's Modernist Manifesto Arrives a Few Decades Too Late | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...emotional current of stream-of-consciousness narration in one and the fixation on the absurd in the other. However, Woolf, Beckett, and countless others who practiced these techniques wrote generations before “Reality Hunger” ever hit the shelves. To that end, what good is a manifesto if it appears almost a century after the “innovations” it champions first began to appear...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shield's Modernist Manifesto Arrives a Few Decades Too Late | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...narrative structures—are valid, they seem to be ideas that most students of literature will have encountered at some point or other in their career. In other words, it is the novelty Shields believes his book to carry—the fact that he considers it a manifesto to herald in a new age that seems to have arrived long ago—that is the problem...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shield's Modernist Manifesto Arrives a Few Decades Too Late | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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