Archive Page 12 – Graphic Chatter

News and information culled from the internet

May 2025

SUPERHEROES

Are Superhero Movies Dying?

Once a colossus that stalked across theatre screens and earned billions upon billions of dollars in box office, the American superhero movie has now reached a point where years of failed big-budget offerings and being pecked at by maligning critics who call them "junk," or even "not movies at all" (so has said Martin Scorsese*) the genre is now running into a hard wall of growing indifference.

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IDEOLOGY

"Why SYRIZA wanted the queues for medicines" – Liberal [In Greek, use Google Translater to put into English] – "Why hadn't the SYRIZA government provided a solution to the issue of supplying cancer patients with medicines and left them to suffer, in a chillingly sadistic manner, in the queues at EOPYY pharmacies? Why didn't SYRIZA provide a solution to something that the Mitsotakis government took less than a month to do? But, for ideological reasons..."

The article describes that reducing the individual experience to a particle of the whole, "...waiting in line for long hours convinces individuals that they are helpless victims."

The question comes up, though, what if the lines and waiting are from other factors, such as ineptitude of organization? Inability to think outside of old USSR templates? And is the creation of "helpless victims" really a rational goal for a political organization that is itself a reaction to the status of "helpless victims"?

Gonda Van Steen examines the productions of classical tragedies staged by political prisoners of the Greek Civil War (late 1940s to 1950s). She first explains the historical and political context in which these productions originated, the selections made by the prisoners, and the practical conditions under which the performances were mounted, devoting attention, too, to the prison authorities' acts of censorship. Her main focus, however, is on the interpretation that the political detainees gave to their productions and the rationale behind specific readings. The book includes the text of an adaptation of Antigone , in the original Greek and in English translation, written by Aris Alexandrou, one of the prisoners..."

Publisher – Oxford University Press
Publication date – February 15, 2011
Print length – 370 pages

PUBLIC DOMAIN

20,000 historic newsreels online

Hearst Metrotone Newsreels from 1929 to 1967 - newsreels.net "High Resolution"

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