“The 1988 film Mississippi Burning, which focuses on two white FBI agents, exemplifies the normal Hollywood approach to the civil rights movement. The film angered a lot of black movie-goers because it made the FBI into heroes when, according to civil rights activist Charles Cobb, the bureau often looked the other way as black Southerners were beaten and murdered in the early ’60s.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Fan Fiction Is Not A New Thing – But It *Is* A Great Way To Engage With Stories
“Shipping may have achieved prominence in the burgeoning world of Internet fan fiction, but the phenomenon, if not the expression, goes back at least a hundred years, when Sybil Brinton, a wealthy Englishwoman in her forties, wrote the first known work of Jane Austen fan fiction, ‘Old Friends and New Fancies,’ in 1913.”
Museums Trying To Make Up Budget Shortfalls By Selling Off Collections Will Be Sanctioned
In the UK, “the MA’s cuts survey found that 52 per cent of museums experienced falling income last year, the most since 2011, with local authority-run museums and national institutions badly hit. Some museum directors are talking about further cuts of up to 35 per cent next year.”
Writing About The Past When Evidence Is Slim
“I was very interested in the way that the past was just continually reinvented as new ideas of homosexuality came along. It left me interested in not just the gay past, but how we write about the gay past and how we claim it or deny it. That led straight into my novels.”
How Democracy Spreads (And Why That Spread Sometimes Fails)
“For Fukuyama, the great challenge of state-building is creating and sustaining an institution of collective rule that cuts against the grain of human nature: we are designed to favour friends and family, and a patrimonial tribal order is ‘hard-wired,’ he argues, into our neural circuitry.”
Prince Charles Thinks His Ideas About Architecture Are ‘For The People’ – And He Couldn’t Be More Wrong
“Charles and his friends like to portray themselves as the underdogs, as victims of a leftie conspiracy of inhumane modernism, but they couldn’t be more well connected, and their polemics in favour of twee cottage architecture resonate strongly with a public taste for the picturesque and sentimental, and the spurious notion of What People Really Want.”
When, And How, Did Western Movies Embrace Hinduism?
“‘Look at the first Matrix movie,’ says producer Peter Rader. ‘It’s a yogic movie. It says that this world is an illusion. It’s about maya – that if we can cut through the illusions and connect with something larger we can do all sorts of things.'”
In Dance, Collaboration Can Be Challenging (But Usually Worth It)
“There are pitfalls. Sweat causes the hands to slide upward from the waist to the chest, where they are least helpful. Leotards can be slippery.”
A Composer Accidentally Hits The Big Time
“It all felt a bit far-fetched. I went in to talk to them at the studio and we started working immediately. There wasn’t even time to think about it.”
The Departing Smithsonian Chief Has Spent Thousands Of Hours Looking For Hometown Artifacts
“The secretary said that his quest would have been easier had the Smithsonian finished digitizing its vast collection, but added, ‘I wish I started it earlier because it’s made me appreciate these collections in a way I didn’t when I took on the job’ six years ago.”