If you've never seen this cartoon by Chuck Jones from Looney Tunes and produced by the United Auto Workers in support of FDR's 1944 re-election, do yourself a favor and check it out. This is quality political art. I want to ride that FDR bullet...
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Maybe I will go see Won't Back Down since I have a love of agitprop. I couldn't find the exact trailer for the film online, but I'm guessing if you.
Chris Blattman links to this very interesting image, charting film genres over time. As you can see, this charts some expected but interesting phenomena--the decline of westerns, the rise of.
(This is another one of those visual rhetoric posts that's born of this upcoming course ... which now has its own website that's only a demo at the moment so don't judge.) To recap: in the first post, I demonstrated how Van Patten turned Will...
The Seapower in Culture series continues, although at a much slower pace than I had hoped for. At the Diplomat, James Holmes has thoughts on Battleship and In Harm's Way..
The great German director has died. If you've never seen The Rabbit Is Me, you are missing out on one of the great movies in the history of cinema.
I always thought Clint Eastwood was the genial, George H.W. Bush type of Republican voter. Didn't care much about the social issue stuff, didn't much care to pay taxes, bought into his own character, whatever. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's actually the type of Republican...
Outstanding J. Hoberman essay in The New York Review of Books on Chris Marker and his amazing films. Must read of the morning.
I had a bit of a silent comedy fest last night. I watched Just Neighbors with Harold Lloyd, Hustling for Health with Stan Laurel, and Kid Auto Races at Venice,.
Of course any post on the top 10 films in history is basically trolling for comments. But they were interesting comments. And here's a few additional thoughts based upon them: 1. I recognize that there are good movies from the 1980s. But I would say...
For those Thursday night drivin' Robert Moses road lovin' readers out there, here's Hilary Harris' 1958 paean to the road, Highway.
Sight and Sound released its preliminary poll findings of the top 10 films in history. The big news is that Citizen Kane was finally booted from its 50 year roost.