Alternative monitoring of popular culture ~ broadly defined ~ in the pursuit of deeper understanding
Saturday, August 1, 2009
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" takes the unique "battlefield" horrors of the war in Iraq and their effect on service men and turns the resulting madness both inward and outward with an intensity I've not felt in a film for quite a while. The film follows a trio of short-timers in a bomb squad as they move from one impossibly tense encounter with IEDs or suicide bombers to the next.
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Secret Television
TV babies of a certain age (read "old") no doubt remember the sitcom trend of the '50s and '60s where the lead character, ...
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As you closely read the two photographs above -- Sally Mann's "Candy Cigarette"(top) and Diane Arbus's "...
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