Yesterday evening (gmt + 1) Danish teevee news live fed President Obama’s announcement that Chrysler will head into bankruptcy protection. Can anyone tell me if the CNNization of Danish news along with its increased obsession focus on live “breaking” coverage of D.C. political intrigue is merely a figment of my imagination?
A few weeks ago, thinking [...]
This image was one of the more ridiculous examples of corporate media’s role in placing Obama’s presidency within right-wing and neoliberal narrative frames. The illustration accompanied Jon Meacham’s much contested Newsweek cover article which asserted the difficulty of governing as a liberal in a (supposedly) predominantly conservative America. Here, the myth of the silent majority [...]
Tagged Inauguration, Obama, public memoryWay back on November 4, Steen Christiansen posted this very interesting and compelling essay on American cinematic utopian /distopian narratives. The discussion focuses primarily on Hal Hartley’s The Girl from Monday but also touches upon other utopian/distopian films, notably Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca, concluding that Gattaca is far more in keeping with traditional Hollywood hegemonic discourses [...]
Tagged Hollywood, Independent, Transgression, UtopianDuring this latest “financial crisis” there have been some fascinating images which communicate possible alternative narratives to the daily press stories. The image above from this NYT article particularly caught my attention. Here, despite whatever giveaway, formerly known as the bail-out, “rescue” the Senate may approve on Wednesday, the message in this photo seems [...]
“CARPE DIEM IN BLACK AND WHITE: Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers” (by Camelia Elias)
One of the perennial discussions of the concept of the fragment and fragmentary forms revolves around the status of the fragment and the fragmentary in relation to a presupposed whole. Is the fragment a remnant of something broken? Something that has been detached [...]
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I looked at some of the images from this montage in this post here if you’re interested. One of the things that seems pretty apparent across the US political landscape, is that Democrats are actively reclaiming historical and cultural narratives and effectively appropriating them into their political campaigns.