Word: exploitationism
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A traveler returning to America from a distant land, comments Philip E. Slater in The Pursuit of Loneliness, "is struck first of all by the grim monotony of American facial expressions-hard, surly, and bitter- and by the aura of deprivation that informs them. One goes abroad forewarned against exploitation...
ANDREW SARRIS, who should know, calls Godard "the most self-conscious film-maker in the world." In Vent de L'est, a 1969 film which opened at the Festival, Godard passes from self-consciousness to militant solipsism. The movie is, first, about capitalism, colonialism, and exploitation. It is a Western...
In the auto-critique section of the movie, that concept is used like a dissecting needle to tease at our ideas about films and filmmakers. In such a schema the director is an oppressor, and actors are members of an oppressed class. An actor, especially a Hollywood actor, is a...
AT RADCLIFFE the exploitation of women is less obvious but just as deep as in other areas of American Society. At the outset, the "ideal" of Harvard elitism, borrowed heavily from the English universities, is basically one of male intellectual clubbiness-thus some common rooms are still closed to female...
JOE is the kind of movie that makes people start to hate irrationally and want to kill each other. I guess that's no small achievement, but it doesn't cover up the fact that this low-budget American film is a mindless exploitation picture, a quasipolitical Beyond the Valley...