Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s six-hour PBS documentary explores what the U.S. could have done in response to Nazi atrocities of the Holocaust.
U.S. and the Holocaust, The: Landmark Documentary from Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
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English, The: Emily Blunt’s New Series as Star and Producer
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The actress also serves as exec-producer of the Western, which she describes as a “heart-stopping chase thriller with the most tender of love stories at its heart.”
Film Theory: Taste Structure, Class Distinctions (Bourdieu; Middlebrow)
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Liberal films that do nothing in terms of visual elaboration to compensate for their verbal explicitness or conventional narratives–films without personal or pronounced style.
Film Theory: Watt, Ian–Rise of the Novel (Applied to Rise of the Film)
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For Watt, the novel’s ‘novelty’ was its ‘formal realism,’ the idea ‘that the novel is a full and authentic report of human experience.’
Film Theory: Frankfurt School of Criticism–Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Leo Löwenthal
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Founded in 1923, the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt developed a ‘critical sociology’ indebted to Marx, Weber and Freud.
