Word: insight
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...film historian and working critic. I find most contemporary articles on film to be reactionary and philistinish, not so much because of ideological influences but rather because of the lack of sympathetic insight and dedicated scholarship. When I read a piece on any subject, and especially on film. I do not ask myself if the writer is swinging to the left or right, but rather if he is writing out of a genuine commitment to his subject ... it in about time that film stopped serving as a dumping ground for tourists from other disciplines...
...document events rather than recreate them. He picks a situation and applies an arbitrary structure to it--using photographs, maps, and verbal statements. By applying such structures to events--such as mapping the route of an empty package sent to six different U.S. towns--he gives the viewer an insight into how we order our thoughts about daily events. It is the viewer's notion of conceiving the event that Huebler finds artistic...
...Texas Department of Corrections. Armed with his tape recorder and camera, Jackson grasped what life is like for prisoners like Chinaman, Ten-Four. Bacon and Porkchop, Lightnin' and Cowboy. They told him their story and sang him their songs and he was able to gain an unusual insight into the mechanisms of survival contained in the rhythmic melodies...
...spending so much time with the prisoners, Jackson gained an uncanny insight into their motivations. Given prison conditions, for example, the outside observer finds it difficult to explain why the inmates compete fiercely for the recognition of being the best worker. But after talking with the prisoners, Jackson concludes...
...violence and repression. The condition is reflected in the breakdown of language into "nadsat," a jumble of portmanteau constructions ("He looked a malenky bit poogly when he viddied the four of us"). To Burgess, language is the breath of civilization. Cut it short and society suffocates. That is an insight worth pondering. For if the world is to resist the nadsat future, readers and writers of both sexes must resist onefully any meaningless neologisms. To do less is to encourage another manifestation of prejudice-against reason, meaning and eventually personkind itself...