Like other movies, Bitter Rice played in Israel a year or several years after it was made
1 LGBTQ Guide: Draft
March 23, 2020 by
For a long time, the queer voice has been an outsider’s voice, both outraged and outrageous, in literature and the arts, including film. In the work of artists like Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, the repression of homosexuality–and sexuality in general–was symbolic of the many lies and hypocricy that society […]
0 Levy: Books–Bios, Memoirs, Albums of Actors and Directors
March 2, 2020 by
Levy: Library of Books–Bios, Memoirs, Actors, Directors, Critics
100 Books: Texts that Influenced My Thinking and Scholarship–Lasch’s Culture of Narcissism
March 1, 2020 by
Christopher Lasch’s most famous work, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979), sought to relate the hegemony of modern-day capitalism to an encroachment of a “therapeutic” mindset into social and family life.
Sociology of Art and Literature–Select Bibliography
February 12, 2020 by
Updated March 9, 2020 Socio-economics of the arts and literature, or cultural economics, is a field that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art, literature and similar creative and cultural products. For a long time, the concept of the “arts” were confined to visual arts (e.g., painting) and performing […]
