Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...photographs themselves that draw crowds. The technical quality of the prints is simply and inarguably exquisite. Some critics argue that his photographs are just "warmed-over pictorialism," are overly pretty. This leads some to argue that despite his photograph's controversial content, his work is actually mainstream and conservative. Mapplethorpe himself maintained he would have been a sculptor if he had lived a 100 years...
...company to market merchandise based on his films and has spent over a million dollars for a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. None of these actions, by themselves, are objects of condemnation. But when a person declares, as Lee has done, that he doesn't care about mainstream Hollywood and strongly implies that he is above petty commericial interests, such actions begin to to take on the aura of self-indulgent hypocrisy. Lee's latest work, Mo' Better Blues, has a similar air about...
...however, chooses to employ motifs even more basic to Western civilization, and for that matter, mainstream Hollywood moviemaking. The last fifteen minutes of the film are a testament to the moral cleansing power of the family. Gilliam, at absolute rock bottom, turns to Indigo in what begins as one of the film's most powerful scenes and quickly deteriorates into one of its most unbelievable. Gilliam begs Indigo, whom he had not seen or spoken to in over a year, to take him back. "I love you," he tells her for the first time, "I want...
...Better Blues is not the typical jazz film; it does not attempt to glorify the individual achievement of some famous musician. Neither is the film a particularly strong statement about the relationship between Black and (mainstream) American society. So what is Mo' Better Blues about? In one sense, it is certainly about the powerful function of the family in modern human society. In another, it is a film based on a tried and true Hollywood formula...
Koppelman says his taste is mainstream, which he defines as "when more people will like it than not." Still, he is often willing to gamble on something different. He eagerly signed a politically conscious black singer- songwriter who was a classmate of his son's at Tufts. The result was an SBK success story: Tracy Chapman, whose hits the firm produced for the Elektra label...