Social Critique

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' 3-D caloric deluge is stuffed with A-list voiceovers and animated with love, care and plenty of mischief. But critic Ella Taylor says audiences will also see the film as a story of American overindulgence.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

What it doesThis is one of these blogs that provide an overview on every cultural event that to a……case, the blog is kept by someone named Neddie Jingo who provides incisive but very accurate social critique and commentary. Just give the recent posting about Michael Jackson and the way…

Invitation PDF detail. Via the Whitney's website. Back to the Future: An Experimental Discussion on Contemporary Feminist Practice Whitney Museum……Program, have structured the event around a critical lexicon of gendered social critique. Suggesting more benign and unspecific…

[Revised entry by William McDonald on May 8, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (b.1813, d. 1855) was a profound……fiction. Kierkegaard brought this potent mixture of discourses to bear as social critique and for the purpose of renewing Christian faith…

With "newsgames," Persuasive Games' Ian Bogost hopes to use apps like Jetset, where players pretend to be TSA agents, for fun, profit -- and social critique.Source : CNNMoney.com (subscribe)

From the capacity audiences at San Francisco’s Noir City, I’ve shifted to the sparse attendance at Pacific Film Archive’s third annual……became a unique blend of vibrant aesthetic experimentation and biting social critique.  In the past 50 years, African filmmaking has become…

Newsmakers (2009), Anders Banke’s remake of Johnnie To’s Breaking News (2004), is an old man’s film about a young man’s world. Banke……turned urban violence into a reality show circus has even less bite as social critique as it does as brainless entertainment. Unlike To,…

Noël Coward's Hay Fever is as light and fluffy as a cream puff. If you're looking for deep meaning or biting social critique, well, seek elsewhere. But if you're looking to laugh and enjoy a fantastic vehicle for APT core company actor Tracy Michelle Arnold, this is your show.

With "newsgames," Persuasive Games' Ian Bogost hopes to use apps like Jetset, where players pretend to be TSA agents, for fun, profit -- and social critique.

Like Anna Quindlen’s Rise and Shine, this novel by Claire Messud sits on The New York Times bestseller list, probably on the basis of rave……Quindlen’s book, Messud’s disappointed. What promised to be incisive social critique read to me as self-involved, narcissistic, and…

Walden by: Henry David Thoreau 1.0Category: BooksPrice: $0.99 (iTunes)Description:Walden (first……lot of most people. The book is not a traditional autobiography, but combines autobiography with a social critique of contemporary Western culture's consumerist and materialist attitudes and…

THE REDUCERS Let's go 1984 Rave On records 320 kbpsLet's go / Bums (I used to know) /Fashion of the times / Your mother / Hippy hippy shake /……energetic debut, the everyone-sings-everyone-writes quartet offers social critique and consumer culture in the worshipful "Black Plastic…

Am I the only one who thinks critics have overlooked a valid and exciting interpretation of……best movie. Imagine my surprise, then, when none of the reviews I read discussed Basterds' social critique. Critics like Roger Ebert and Mick Lasalle hint at this perspective, but they…

'THIS IS MY AMERICA'Jim Vickers, Motif Magazine, April 09If you considered their debut “Worthless Lesson” album a slap upside the head, you……a clear maturation into more forceful songwriting and an uncompromising social critique noticeably absent in this time of war and crisis.…

This Sourcebook Includes: Words of wisdom, philosophy, and social critique from the Master himself; an invaluable view of 16th-century society in New Europe Full annotation and commentary from the greatest sorceries minds of the 19th century A compendium of…