On their second album Solid Gold, the postpunk rock group Gang of Four openly assert their intention to approach pop music as critical theory with a song titled, appropriately enough, “Why Theory?” In answer to their own query of why critical theory should have a place in rock music, the band sings “Each day seems ...
The press release for 26-year-old John Osborne’s first produced play, Look Back in Anger, which opened on the 11th anniversary of Victory-Europe Day (May 8, 1956), called the dramatist “an angry young man.” After the stunning success of the play, the term “Angry Young Man” became the abel for a generation of Englishmen born before ...
Would you have felt the same way about the classic 1996 film “Titanic” had the love scenes, the ship sinking and the dropping of the necklace into the ocean been addressed by Rose to the audience (rather than the modern-day underwater explorers)…or if the camera crew or technical crew were shown filming the movie in ...
John Heartfield was born Helmut Herzfeld in Germany in 1891. Heartfield’s reputation as an artist is built upon his innovative use of photomontage techniques and his unapologetic political engagement. The political strain in Heartfield’s art has its roots in his tumultuous upbringing. Socialists and political activists, Heartfield’s parents were convicted of blasphemy and fled Germany ...