“The prime chronicler of the jazz age – a term he coined – came up around the same time that the American movie industry did, and spent much of his career linked with Hollywood. But Fitzgerald’s intellectual snobbery and Puritanical prudery made for a strained relationship with the film world, one that began as dismissive and ended as dependent.”
Tag: 05.07.13
Could Local Theatres Help Spur An Arts Funding Revolution?
“If building audiences and arts engagement, and widening arts access at grassroots level, are prioritised, it could be that the arts find they have an army of advocates. It is those people whom this and future governments can’t afford to ignore.”
Can Neuroscience Really Say Something About Humanities?
“Neurohumanities has been positioned as a savior of today’s liberal arts. The Times is able to ask “Can ‘Neuro Lit Crit’ Save the Humanities?” because of the assumption that literary study has descended into cultural irrelevance. Neurohumanities, then, is an attempt to provide the supposedly loosey-goosey art and lit crowds with the metal spines of hard science.”
Disney Backs Off Attempt To Trademark Mexican Festival
“After raising the ire of critics online, The Walt Disney Company quickly backed away today from its move to quietly trademark ‘Día de los Muertos’ for an upcoming Pixar animated feature.”
France’s Newest Oscar-Winning Director Slams French Film Industry
“[Michel] Hazanavicius, who won the best picture and director Oscar for his silent comedy The Artist in 2012, took to the pages of Le Monde to lambast what he sees as a well-meaning but outmoded system of French film production. ‘Today our responsibility is to denounce the failings of a once virtuous system that is being devoured by gangrene’.”
Berlin State Ballet Gets Kinky In Nightclub
“Berlin’s state ballet has teamed up with a leading techno night club to produce a dark, avant-garde show with bondage masks and a bus wreck set in a former power plant that showcases the city’s vibrant alternative cultural scene.”
Comic-Book Characters Conquer The Culture
“In 2012, comic-book-based movies accounted for a whopping 14 percent of U.S. box office revenue. … They represent a huge chunk of our cultural imagination. … But on the road from Tony Stark’s (pretty racist) origin fighting a bunch of commies to a world where graphic novels can be just as artful as stories without drawings, something remarkable happened. The nerds won.”
Predicting Hit Movies With Data? What’s New About That?
“If you’re looking for an enemy of creativity, even assuming a zero-sum game where looking for financial success can only harm the art, is the enemy script evaluation, which is a method of guessing at how much a movie will make, or is it the decision at the studio level to care only about how much the movie will make?”
How Crowdsourced Personalization Could Save Publishing
“Personalization is as much a buzzword nowadays as disruption, big data, or the cloud. It might also be part of the solution to pull the publishing industry out of the downward revenue spiral it’s been stuck in for years.”
Cellist Janos Starker’s Passing Ends A Golden Age Of Music
“When cellist János Starker passed away on April 28 at age 88, a golden age of music making became a mere memory.”