Exiles and Expressionism: The Transatlantic Exodus of European Filmmakers
Avant-Garde and Kitsch
It explores the contrasting concepts of avant-garde and kitsch in culture, examining their societal implications, artistic significance, and the impact of industrialization on cultural value and experience.
cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com(Bombay Beach) is a physical reminder that success and devastation are two sides of the same coin, knowledge that provides incentive to look beyond the nostalgia that ruins so often inspire.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
a movie like Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee, that tackles America’s racial tensions, these productions offer a perspective on the world that is informed by the way a community sees the world. The creations of producers, like Glover and Lee, act as a vessel of cultural information that is discussed and negotiated by the community to decide whether
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In twentieth-century culture, Futurism is the litmus test for probing the relationship between art and power, aesthetics and politics—the birth scene of aesthetic modernity.
Laura Wittman • Futurism: An Anthology (2009)
Perhaps transformation into art is one way of dealing with the overstimulation of modern life. Art binds chaotic impressions into form … Perhaps film emerged when it did because it was just the therapy people needed to bind into manageable form the chaos of modern overstimulation.
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
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