DREAMSTORY
Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut [Warner Brothers] “That’s what you say now, so at this moment you may even believe
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Author: Howard Slater
The Western
The text offers a vivid commentary on the transformation of landscapes and their symbolic connections to human aspirations and social struggles. It juxtaposes orderly agricultural fields, symbolizing efficiency and ownership, with untamed forests and lawless frontier towns, representing unpredictability and societal conflicts. Through the lens of Anthony Mann’s westerns, it explores themes of law, identity, community, and the struggle for power, questioning the balance between imposed order and innate chaos.
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No one recognises these powers as their own (Why Theory?) We have to dispense with the idea that theorising occurs
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a Lost And Found Times anthology [Invisible Books] An excellent compendium of poetry drawn from the Ohio based magazine Lost
Read More“INVOLUTIONARY MUSIC”
Ultra-red: Second Nature – An Electroacoustic Pastoral [Mille Plateaux] “Thus it was the time of year at which the Bois
Read More“LONG LIVE DEATH”
Editor’s note: This is the original version as published in Datacide 6. We recommend you read the version slightly revised
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Minimal Apertures (Insert to The Western)
Minimal Apertures is an addendum to the article The Western by Howard Slater with short remarks about The Wild Bunch, Once Upon A Time in the West, Winchester 73, McAbe and Mrs Miller, Ulzana’s Raid and El Topo.
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Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter
An analysis of the movies of John Carpenter by Howard Slater from Datacide 5 (1999).
‘As we grow more accustomed to the control of the urban environment through surveillance, zero tolerance zones and regeneration projects it seems as if we inhabit a social world that is policed by technology and is obsessed with security. Just what this technology secures us from is as encrypted as the microchips and cables that power it. Maybe it secures us from ourselves: a constant reminder that we are being ‘watched’ which comes to strengthen the internalisation of those mechanisms of paranoia and stasis that an inherited morality has already instilled.’
PARALLAXED – A Dark 70s America
Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.
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