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lukas
, June 02, 2014
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"In Russia, TV watches you!." Longtime Village Voice film critic (he was let go in 2012) is one of our most astute and engaging cultural critics and excels at locating the ideology in films, both respectable and seemingly disposable. As the subtitle indicates, in this book Hoberman discusses "Communism as the aesthetic project of the twentieth century," touching on films, art, architecture and literature, as well as American cultural responses (primarily films) to Communism. His insights are always striking, but I'll admit he was a little too erudite for me at times and I was unfamiliar with many of the artworks he mentioned.
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