Word: existentialist
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That was the way of it with Alex, who was a sort of instinctive existentialist. He would probably be surprised that so many of the movies he brought into being linger so pleasantly in memory and still find new audiences in revival nouses and on TV. He made them tastefully, with strong narratives and characters, because he happened to be an elegant and literate entrepreneur. But their function was not to secure him immortality but to provide something entertaining and profitable to do with his life...
...actions of his time. Some definitions are more detailed, but only one is shorter: Camus. The name is enough to evoke the romantic figure of a revolutionary philosopher, fighter in the French underground, disillusioned radical and Nobel laureate, outfitted in trenchcoat, hands cupped around the eternal cigarette: Bogart as existentialist...
...Romantic tradition, and in his case he used arguments made by Voltaire and Rousseau to buttress his condemnation of slavery. In Charles Chestnutt's work we see a literature of Realism, and in the work of Richard Wright we see aspects of Naturalism and, later on, attempts at existentialist ideas. In Toni Morrison we find a complex attempt at socio-psychological realism, which attempts to examine in somewhat clinical terms the nature of psychic dispossession, of which Frantz Fanon spoke so eloquently...
...back at the past decade, I see a group of about 30 people that I have worked with again and again. I expect to work with them for the next ten years. We were the generation that discovered that alienation is funny. We found that if you take an existentialist, add a hot Camaro, a skateboard and a lot of dope, you have a working, vital existentialist who can get a job at the National Lampoon...
...prefer your history philosophized rather than wrapped up in a candy-box, Camus' Caligula, an existentialist interpretation of a period of Roman history, bows at the Loeb Ex Monday through Wednesday. The play centers on an emperor, Caligula, and his use of power to obtain unbridled freedom for himself at the expense of others; the approach taken by director Vicente Castro in his last Loeb production has been described as "primitivistic-futuristic." 7:30 p.m. is the chosen hour to indulge in perplexity (tickets are free, and available beginning at noon on the day of performance...