Archive for August, 2013
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Proper Value: Death to Smoochy; an Ode to Film Noir
Posted on August 28, 2013One of our main focuses at The Culture Counter is to introduce people to works of culture that they otherwise would have missed. This reoccurring segment, Proper Value, brings films, […] -
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Best Films in the Public Domain
Posted on August 23, 2013Downloading movies for free has become mainstream, much to the chagrin of the film industry. Especially starting film makers are finding it increasingly difficult to make a living because of […] -
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Andy Warhol: Philosopher
Posted on August 21, 2013Somewhere in Toronto, Canada, there is a gift shop that has (a few years ago, at least) a wall filled with small, framed pictures of Andy Warhol. Each picture bears […] -
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Juliet’s Right Breast and Other Lucky Body Parts
Posted on August 14, 2013All over the world, there are many rituals and customs intended to give a person good luck. These can be anything from encountering natural phenomena (four-leaf clovers, rainbows and falling […] -
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A Punishing World: The Punisher–The Slavers
Posted on August 9, 2013It’s been a while now since general audiences have accepted that comic books, as a medium, can tell worthwhile stories–Maus won its Pulitzer Prize over two decades ago, after all. […] -
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Samuel Beckett: From the Mother to the Womb.
Posted on August 7, 2013It is hard to look at one work of Samuel Beckett without a knowledge of Beckett’s complete oeuvre. One of the elements that comes back time and time again in […] -
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The Trauma of Memory and the Shattering of Time in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse–Five and Chris Marker’s La Jetée
Posted on August 2, 2013Journalist Jeffrey R. Di Leo once asked Kurt Vonnegut about the situation of the world at that time, the mid-eighties. His question was not long and difficult, but infused all […]