Checks and imbalances: political economy and the rise and rall of 'East Side/West Side'
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Issues discussed concern the social aspects of American television in the 1960s, focusing on the bold social and political commentary of 'East Side/West Side,' a social-problem program that aired from 1963-64. Topics addressed the program's critique of consumerism, capitalism, patriarchy and conventional narrative structure, and the issues that led to it's censorship and cancellation.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 1998
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Puce modern moment: Camp, postmodernism, and the films of Kenneth Anger
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The historical, aesthetic and ideological connections between camp and postmodernism are examined to understand the complex and still controversial cultural practices. An attempt is made to demonstrate, through the films of Kenneth Anger, that there is a more central and broad relationship between camp and postmodernism.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2006
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Therapeutic discourse and ACOA films of the '80s and '90s
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Motion pictures in the 1980s and 1990s that portrayed adult children of alcoholics paralleled social self-help movements of that time. Films of the 80s tended to be pessimistic or tentative about the possibilities of healing, while those of the 90s addressed healing more directly.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 1999
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