In The Society of the Spectacle, French theorist Guy Debord argues that mass culture MASTER CHIEF JUST SHOT FREDDY KRUEGER! which Jean Baudrillard further develops, most famously in Similarity and THAT’S THE BACK TO THE FUTURE THEME! But the most damning indictment of mass entertainment THE IRON GIANT! Adorno’s essay in A RUBIK’S CUBE! AN …
Steven Spielberg is really good at making movies.We all know that, of course; we all love Jaws and Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List. But a movie like The Post , a movie that tells so cleanly and forcefully a knotty procedural tale, reminds us just how good he really is.Just watch his camera follow Washington …
New Episode of Renewed Mind Movie Talk available today!Are you going to watch Jaws this Fourth of July weekend?Of course you are! What else would you look at this weekend?After watching it, take a look at this video essay!Jaws isn\’t a movie about a shark — it\’s a movie about a community responding to a …
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