Waters said that neither he nor his managers had scrubbed the Krakow dates, part of his highly successful “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour, and that he intended to go forward with the shows.
There is very little of the real history here and a great deal of self-aggrandizement and identity politics. The results are deplorable, both artistically and socially.
The vicious public attacks on Peter Seaton and freedom of artistic expression are part of a broader attempt to cultivate a hysterical and militarist atmosphere with any questioning of the official narrative tantamount to treason.
Mantel was considered and thoughtful on the role of history in culture, and extremely cautious about easy, shallow and inappropriate historical comparisons.
A number of serious series and programs received Emmy awards this year, as television continues to prove more socially critical and interesting than filmmaking.
Unlike a good many films and television programs at present that aim at capturing social reality, Mo proceeds in a vivid, multifaceted, compassionate manner, devoid of self-pity or self-conscious gloom.
Employees at a mysterious technology and pharmaceutical corporation have their memories severed to divide their work and personal lives in this science-fiction meets dark-comedy thriller.
The producers, along with Netflix, reacted hysterically to the allegations in 2017, terrified of being thought “soft” on sexual misconduct in the witch-hunting atmosphere that prevailed.
The new films about the Nazis are clearly a response as well—fully conscious or not—to the rise and threat of the far right in Germany, the US and elsewhere.
Blanco is pulling out all the stops to ready his factory and his workforce for an imminent visit from a committee that will decide which local firm collects a prestigious business excellence award.
Lost Illusions is a monumental novel, a turning point in modern literature, and Giannoli and Jacques Fieschi, his co-screenwriter, have done a remarkable job of dramatizing it.
The years following the 2008 global financial crisis were marked by speculative parasitism escalating to stratospheric heights. Neumann’s grotesque, New Age company arose within these conditions.
Waters said that neither he nor his managers had scrubbed the Krakow dates, part of his highly successful “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour, and that he intended to go forward with the shows.
Various moralizers are now shunning the musician, jeopardizing his reputation and career, based on unproven and largely trivial allegations.
The singer asserts that creating her seventh studio album “allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.” She writes that the music “allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving.”
Dozier was a key artistic contributor to the flourishing of the “Motown Sound” during the 1960s, which had an enormous impact on global popular culture.
Mantel was considered and thoughtful on the role of history in culture, and extremely cautious about easy, shallow and inappropriate historical comparisons.
History, poverty and the difficulty of human relationships are baked into the lives of the characters.
McCullough’s work, though limited by his focus on the personal and a mystical “American spirit,” revealed that there is a hunger for history among masses of people.
Briggs’ work is admired, even loved, by millions of children and adults alike as he didn’t compromise with what he told them.
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me follows a young woman, Cassandra (Morgan Saylor), who, faced with homelessness, comes under the spell of a local DJ, Nathan (Ben Rosenfield).
The notorious Counter Terrorism and Investigation Department arrested Jazeem in May 2020, claiming that his poetry promoted extremism and falsely accused him of teaching extremism to his students.
Last week director, producer, painter and sculptor Andrew Levitas spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about his dramatic feature Minamata, featuring Johnny Depp as world-famous photographer W. Eugene Smith.
