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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2007
...John Beck Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (1971) is the apotheosis of the Vietnam-era exploitation/arthouse existentialist road movies produced in the wake of Easy Rider. Vanishing Point is about speed and technology, surveillance and control, acceleration and catastrophe, roads, deserts...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 23–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
... is to critically engage with this emerging interdisciplinary field. The essays examine the matrices of velocity and power channeled by a range of contemporary representational and media forms: the road movie, the contemporary novel, electoral opinion polls, and managerial discourse, respectively. While...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 326–333.
Published: 01 November 2009
... to pick me up after visiting with some Common Ground volunteers who were gutting houses in the Lower Ninth, I realized it didn't look like a movie set, but the stage for a play I have seen many times. It was unmistakable. The empty road. The bare tree leaning precariously to one side with just enough...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of roadside spectacle, concluding that, as Lynch’s two road-trip movies ( Wild at Heart and The Straight Story ) demonstrate, “the road makes possible particularly strong associations between space and narrative” (113). He finds that Wild at Heart “is disrupted and disjointed, as if each individual scene...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the automotive folly called autobahn. As is frequently the case with inventions, there are two versions. The first is feudal and famous, the other a forgotten matter of war. The autobahn, “the roads of Adolf Hitler,” are said to be from their very outset a thoroughly German affair. Hence a historiography...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 119–134.
Published: 01 March 2005
... while compiling photomicroscopy from my father’s latest experiments, and sorted them for various painting projects. And then one day while watching an old movie, something changed. It was “Dr. Strangelove” (1964) by Stanley Kubrick. The last sequence comprises short clips of nuclear detonations...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 233–242.
Published: 01 July 2005
... went to the Peace Camp. Soon after I arrived a police car drew up; apparently that was usual when someone new arrived. They wanted us to know they knew. I heard about the protests. People blockading the road, swimming across the loch and painting the submarines. Then they took me to some of the key...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 48–54.
Published: 01 March 2021
... world continues, as so many people have said, like something from a movie. Though we know movies enforce empty streets with permits to shut down thoroughfares, and that their current movielike desertion is also a matter of advisories and enforcements, nonetheless that look of spaces as they appear after...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., whose reign—in this very order—extended from horses to humans. When his successors built a royal road from Susa to the Mediterranean, thereby mobilizing the superhuman speed of messengers on horseback, the first empire of this world (to quote the gospels) had come into being. The transmission speed...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 335–358.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of some irruptive forms Recursivity-recombination hypercommodification Expressed as: Dadaism, modern lit., Surrealism, Jazz, Rock ‘n' Roll, Hollywood, New Wave Movies, Abstract Expressionism, expansion of mass media, denim jeans, rise of celebrity culture Be Bop Jazz, Pop Music, Reggae, Pop Art...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
... : Paidós . Berry A. 2000 . “ Leadership in a New Millennium: The Challenge of the ‘Risk Society’ .” Leadership and Development Journal 21 : 5 – 12 . Blumer Herbert. 1933 . Movies and Conduct . New York : Macmillan . Blumer Herbert Hauser Philip M. 1933...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 163–183.
Published: 01 July 2015
... roads, inner and outer, seem to cross again “in the glass rectangle.” It is “like a dream.” Mosse is an admirer of Herzog’s films, which is reflected in his use of the sublime to access layers of the invisible in The Enclave . Rather than the truth-value and rote reality of data that “reside...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 July 2011
... understand this “near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work” as a sign of the intensifying criticism of the “war on terror” or as a sign of the successful accommodation of critique within the global entertainment complex ( Corliss 2008 ). The Hurt Locker recounts the story of a three-man team...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... . Roberts Andrew . 2014 . Napoleon the Great . London : Allen Lane . Schütz Erhard Gruber Eckhard 1996 . Mythos Reichsautobahn: Bau und Inszenierung der “Straßen des Führers” 1933–1941 ( The Myth of the Reich Autobahn: Construction and Staging of the “Roads of the Führer” 1933–1941...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 51–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the technique: [Robbie] was looking past the major's shoulder towards the head of the column. Hanging there, a long way off, about thirty feet above the road, warped by the rising heat, was what looked like a plank of wood, suspended horizontally, with a bulge in its centre. The major's words were...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 281–302.
Published: 01 November 2020
... by feelings, and, as he relentlessly showed, our feelings are manufactured for us, not least by the movies. Responding to the negative critiques of the play, Fassbinder (1992 : 119) noted that the Rich Jew is merely executing the plans that have been developed by an elite; they use his Jewish identity...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
... of life in the cyber-revolution” ( Frank 1997 : 4). Incidentally, Peter Biskind (1998) has put forward a similar argument regarding the role of the “movie brats” who came to prominence in the 1970s, an offshoot of the Sixties, in saving Hollywood. The Francis Ford Coppolas, Peter Fondas, Dennis Hoppers...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2006
... as diverse as Washington's country-club suburbs and the Pentagon's techniques for urban assault. © BERG 2006 PRINTED IN THE UK 2006 I couldn't get over how much the scene was like a replay of Vietnam. Or the Vietnam I'd seen in movies and photo books. The tall grass. The green fields. The flush...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 163–174.
Published: 01 July 2021
... on the road to Damascus moment. First of all, I met people who were professors who were working on deafness, which was a field that I didn't know existed. JJW: What kind of professors? LJD: In linguistics and sociology, and there were also some psychotherapists. The majority are people who...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
...-ridden road of capitalism. But as with the recent colonization of creativity and of the general intellect as intellectual property, capital resists altering its metrics from the crisis-provoking measure of labor time (as productivity), and sees toxic dumping not only as necessary, but also profitable...