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Straight Shooter
"Henry Fonda for President" more than makes the case for Fonda’s centrality in the American imaginary.
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J. Hoberman
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Art Forum
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October 1, 2024
Outsider’s Outsider
At once famous and obscure, marginal and central, Harry Smith anticipated and even invented several important elements of Sixties counterculture.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
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February 28, 2024
Jammin’ in the Panoram
During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
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September 2, 2023
The Dank Underground
In the late Sixties, countercultural media was distributed by the Underground Press Syndicate and bankrolled by marijuana.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
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May 26, 2023
Fuzz! Junk! Rumble!
A show at the Jewish Museum surveys three eventful years of art, film, and performance in New York City—and the political upheavals that defined them.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
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October 10, 2022
The Surprising History of the Comic Book
Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.
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J. Hoberman
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The Nation
on
January 25, 2022
Ronald Reagan’s Reel Life
Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
on
June 29, 2019
What Makes ‘The Living Dead’ My Film of 1968
In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.
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J. Hoberman
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New York Review of Books
on
September 4, 2018
Jewish Heroes and Nazi Monsters
The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.
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J. Hoberman
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Tablet
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October 16, 2017
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