Culture
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Posted On CultureReflexive self-ethnography | Eurozine


In an anniversary issue looking back on three decades of art and cultural criticism, Austrian magazine springerin brings together companions of the magazine in a…
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Posted On CultureGod, Us, and Them – Part II: Ufology 101


This is the second article in a three-part series. (Read Part I here.) In the first part of this series, we introduced the idea of…
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Posted On Culture12 of the best films to watch in August


One of Hollywood’s darkest ever anti-romantic comedies, The War of the Roses (1989) starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a couple going through a…
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Posted On CultureHow Disney Fought Fascism with Propaganda Cartoons During World War II & Averted Financial Collapse


Today, the Walt Disney Company seems like one of those entities that’s “too big to fail” — but during the Second World War, fail it…
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Posted On CultureThe resilient woman | Eurozine


I should like to begin with a poem. It is by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and is the first poem in his collection Message…
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Posted On CultureThe Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II


Like the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s, which shocked staid white audiences with translations of black rhythm and blues, the popularity of jazz…
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Posted On CultureDon’t want to shoot? Load ammo or cook


Though the US has not entirely abandoned the idea of brokering a deal between Russia and Ukraine, it has become clear that the White House…
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Posted On CultureHow Psycho’s terrifying music changed film forever


Particularly key is the knives-edge music that plays when blonde bombshell Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), not long after checking in to the Bates Motel, is…
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Posted On CultureSalvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates a Wild Dream Sequence for Alfred Hitchcock


Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel reportedly carried rocks in their pockets during the premiere of their first film Un Chien Andalou, anticipating a violent reaction from…
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Posted On CultureWriting on the wall, writing on the water


Cofiwch Dryweryn (remember Tryweryn). The walls exhort us in bright red and white, from Llanrhystud in West Wales to Chicago. And the writing’s not only…
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Posted On CultureIntimate images of ‘the real Hotel California’


When, in 1969, the duo opened a sister studio in LA (and another in Sausalito in 1972), they supercharged the original concept, creating a sort…
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Posted On CultureWatch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Documentary on the Heavy Metal Pioneer (RIP)


“This is supposed to be my farewell tour,” says Ozzy Osbourne in a clip included in the Biography television documentary above. He then gives the…
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Posted On CultureBuilding a Pan-European Community–an interview with Voxeurop


Priyanka Hutschenreiter (PH): How did Voxeurop start? What is your history? Paul Salvanes (PS): Voxeurop’s predecessor started in the 2000s. The initial name was Presseurop.…
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Posted On CultureA New 20-Minute Supercut of David Letterman Slamming CBS: “You Can’t Spell CBS Without BS”


The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—CBS insists it was purely a “financial decision,” the result of declining ad revenue in late night…
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Posted On CultureCreating a creative, critical and participatory community–an interview with Gerador


Founded in 2014, Gerador houses a print and online magazine dedicated to creative journalism, produces inclusive cultural events in Portugal, and trains upcoming journalists and…



