Word: aestheticized
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But Godard's choreography is concerned more with the dance than the dancers. The middle section of the movie is explicitly about film-his film, the nature of film, the death of film. Godard's cinema collective assembles on screen, and the members discuss what has already gone wrong with...
Our sanctification of law is an example. If the worst repression can be called "legal" then it is OK. "Illegality," becomes an aesthetic judgment. McCarthy had to be dealt with, for he too challenged the subtly-honed instrument of the liberal state, dragging it into the mire of recognizable personality...
White Identity. Perhaps because of its pocket-magazine size, Black World conveys a sense of compressed passion. Its articles, fiction and poetry seethe with resentment, with desire for identity, with rejection of the subhumanity of the ghetto. A short story in the August issue gives a chilling description of a...
In theory, the New York Film Festival is a confluence of fresh works by prodigies; in practice, it has been a babel of indifferent talents redeemed only occasionally by a feature of originality. The festival officers are at once innocent and culpable. Many Eastern European pictures were unavailable; American companies...
The grave risk now facing Gould is getting into reruns before his prime time is used up. In Getting Straight, when his jaw flew open in astonishment and water cascaded down his chin during the Master of Arts oral exam, the bit was both funny and surprising. But when he...