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American Popcorn: Hollywood and the War on Common Sense
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Dennis Willis
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, March 21, 2013
American Popcorn is a collection of Dennis Willis's reviews and commentary from the Flick Nation Website. I bought it for the pieces on the last three Star Wars films, because I'm working on something about George Lucas, plus it seemed like a light, entertaining bedtime read. The tone of all the reviews is casual. The book itself, despite its flashy cover, almost seems like someone took a bunch of photocopies and cropped them down to paperback size. The text is rife with proof and editing errors. This is distracting and annoying. Willis frequently rails against the "bean counters" in Hollywood. Money before art dismays him. (I believe this is the "war on common sense" he mentions.) And yet he includes few reviews of independent films. The book also features a few pieces on TV. American Popcorn is, in the end, a light, entertaining read. I just wish Willis had taken the time to prepare the text for publishing.
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Work Capitalism Economics Resistance
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Crimethinc
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, January 14, 2012
If for no other reason, the Occupy movement of 2011 was important because it called into question destructive elements of our culture that have been viewed as normal for so long. Following Occupy, supporting it, and to a minor extent participating in it, really got me thinking about work in the larger sense. Some assert that Occupy wouldn't have happened if the employment level were higher, and I have to say that sounds right to me--if you're spending most hours of your day getting to and from work, working, and recovering from working, where do you find time to live? CrimethInc. ex-Workers' Collective's "Work: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance." mulls this question and many others that directly relate to every one who has a job--and everyone who doesn't. I've been working for a paycheck for over 30 years, and there was a time when I thought that being a "good," productive employee was a virtue, that it meant my life had value, that I was contributing in some way. But contributing to what? To the economy? When did that become the highest good? This book tells us that it isn't, and states in one place that, "The real danger is not that the system will collapse, but that it might go on inflicting the unsustainable costs of its operation upon us forever."
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Jim Goldberg: Open Sea
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Jim Goldberg
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, August 09, 2011
The title is "Open See," as shown in the summary, not "Open Sea." This should be fixed. I saw Jim Goldberg's work for the first time at SFMOMA over the weekend and it was profoundly moving. The photos are technically superior, of course, but the stories they tell, of human beings in dire circumstances trying to survive, are invaluable.
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