The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
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The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
Rosalind Krauss
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The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. Rosalind Krauss tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s and continues to disrupt it today. From Max Ernst's collage novels and Marcel Duchamp's hypnotic Rotoreliefs to Jackson Pollock's drip pictures and Eva Hesse's luminous sculptures, she finds artists who offered readymade images of obsessional fantasy in place of modernism's intentionality and unexamined compulsions.

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5 out of 5 stars Can you see the watcher?.......2001-06-26

Kraus's "The Optical Unconcious" is a good companion, as it were, to Martin Jay's "Downcast Eyes." Both discuss the dilema of visuality in Modernist thought and then -whoa - bring out post-modernism just by speaking about the eye and seeing. While Jay gets technical with his notion of "occular centrism," Kraus lets us feel what it means to watch or be watched. Her approach to the male gaze, the fashionable term for good old fashioned voyerism, is that it is natural. Sure, it one can analyse it as a by product of the failure of the industrial revolution to liberate people from work and to bring about more leisure time for the masses (by implication create greater equality - fewer people watching each other in the negative sense). Krauss is right when she insists that looking is a normal, natural occurance in contemporary society. She is also on target about the obsession Americans have with time, and that sight is the quickest method of human understanding. A great book!

4 out of 5 stars unconfortable platform to contemporary culture.......2000-02-09

Through a carefully structured narrative agenda, Rosalind Krauss is able to foreshadow, a compromised and descriptive text, about the contemporary use of the word "understand", specially if applied to the modernist arts and its criticism. Greatly to the advantage of us, lesser audiences, every thesis is exhibited with both academic rigor and narrative richness, permiting thus, the emergence of rich and useful images, powerful to illustrate, vinculate, even sometimes explain, many of the contemporary works of other theorists, that come to the text sometimes to expose, sometimes to poison, the general arguments around modernist production and the understanding of arts. Great for abbandoning oneself into insomnia, it is common to find provocative images, greatly to the advantage of self-involment in the arguments, and to the further underdstanding of the actual state of simbolical exchange, in the present tense. The involment in contemporary thought and debate, and the well constructed historical narrative, provides the text with an surprisingly effective mirror to look at our culture at an compromisingly close viewpoint, in wich many constitutive arguments of contemporary culture today are reflected just as the many of the historical lies that are still at use now at the "explaining" of the artistic pulsions, and its assimilation by the artistic institutions.
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            In hard-hitting chapters on "The Attack on Religion," "The Addiction to Violence," "Promoting Promiscuity," "The Infatuation with Foul Language," "Kids Know Best," "Motivations for Madness," and other subjects, Medved outlines the underlying themes that turn up again and again in our popular culture. He also offers conclusive evidence of the frightening real-world impact of these messages on our society and our children.

            Finally, Medved shows where and how Hollywood took a disastrous wrong turn toward its current crisis, and he outlines promising efforts both in and outside the industry to restore a measure of sanity and restraint to our media of mass entertainment.

            Sure to elicit strong response, whether it takes the form of cheers of support or howls of enraged dissent, Hollywood vs. America confronts head-on one of the most significant issues of our times.

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            5 out of 5 stars Good book but he ignores the obvious - the Jewish factor.......2007-08-28

            I guess since Medved is a Jew himself, he doesn't touch the fact that Jews are the most influential group in Hollywood and they essentially set the "moral" agenda of various Hollywood film/TV products. Sure there are plenty of powerful gentiles in Hollywood, but it's the Jews who are pushing the envelope and making the top level decisions about how to steer U.S. and Western culture.
            As a Jew myself who has lived both in Los Angeles and New York, my belief is that Jews in this country are hell bent on turning America into a secular progressive/Socialist nation. This is why Hollywood constantly attacks the family and church. It's also why Hollywood glorifies all the bad things of society: drugs, gangs, crime, etc. Their basic strategy is to, over many decades, incrementally tear down U.S. society (ie. wreck it) by promoting destructive things such as gangs, crime, perversion, drugs, and promiscuous sex while at the same time ridiculing all the positive things such as family and church. Simultaneously, Hollywood strongly promotes Socialist or "collective" ideals and often glorifies historical Communist/Marxist/Socialist figures... in this way, they are conditioning the youth of America to be open to such ideologies (and, they hope, embrace such ideologies).
            There is one religion that Hollywood has pandered to -- Islam. You see, Islam and the West do not mix. Hence, Hollywood views Islam as just another destructive force on America and the West, in the same way that gangs and perverse sexuality are destructive forces. Anything destructive to America is a favorite of Hollywood.

            1 out of 5 stars Oh Now I have heard everything............2007-06-16

            If Michael Medved (and other conservatives) had their way. We would be watching the 700 Club on all Tv stations. The Sound of Music would be made into all these new versions, and almost all so-called "Family Films" would be rated by the smallest number of people who said that they have our best intentions at heart.

            Where in the world do these people get these ideas? I have no idea. But I will tell you this. There is much to complain about Hollywood, but at the end of the day, I prefer the world of the movie studios and film making, rather then the world of dumb politics that this book is full of. Then again, this is what Washington DC is also.

            5 out of 5 stars still the best book on what the media is doing to the American mind.......2007-04-15

            "Although the quality of craftsmanship in today's motion pictures is hugely variable, their underlying attitudes are not." (p. xx). The year this book was published, movie attendance had plunged to "its lowest level ever in terms of percentage of our population." (p. xviii). Similar results applied for movie rentals.

            Thus Medved sets the stage for his detailed presentation of the relentlessly anti-American attitudes of movies and TV, and the fact that these products are not selling, and the fact that the producers of them don't care! Foreign sales of American movies are increasing, where these movies feed the anti-American sentiment being fostered by so many other elements around the world. Hollywood now gets over half its income from foreign sales.

            A friend warned Medved that if he published this book, "you're going to become the most hated man in Hollywood." (p. 17). Luckily for us, Medved refused to be intimidated.

            Movies have not gotten any better in the years since this book was published. Medved claims that the movies are out of touch with Americans, but there are a great many Americans whom the movies are not out of touch with: the academics, the news industry people, the schoolteachers, the Islamists, the Reconquistadores, and the like. The movies are part of the attempt to "transform" America into something very different. If you want to know what this transformation is and how it works, read While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. It will keep you awake at night, but you need to know it.

            4 out of 5 stars It's not science, but it's good criticism!.......2007-03-03

            Having done my own research on film content, which just happened to include a survey of 1991 releases (which constitute many of the examples used in this book), it was perhaps inevitable that I would eventually read this book.
            As a social scientist, I noted numerous parts of the book that contained inaccuracies, exaggerations, and reasoning that was far from air-tight. However, at the same time, I was impressed that, although these elements could (and should) be tightened and corrected, I find most of Medved's arguments to be laudable and generally defensible. Certainly there are many persons who should read this book and evaluate their media consumption habits!
            Some of the biggest shortcomings of the book include:
            1. Frequent presumptions that general box-office patterns are to be attributed primarily to specific elements of film content (even though other parts of the book are more careful and sophisticated about such things), [**NOTE** new passage added a month after original review:] Since I originally posted my 4 star rating, I have discovered evidence that flatly contradicts one of Medved's claims!!! The nature of this error is so serious that it would cause me to lower my rating from 4 stars down to 3 stars, but Amazon provides no option to allow me to do that. The flaw is Medved's claim that box office dropped dramatically between 1965 and 1966, due to the new permissiveness that was allowed in film with the Valenti-revisions of the the production code and the addition of the SMA ("suggested for mature audience") label. Having looked at the box office figures, I now see no basis whatsoever for Medved's claim! There was a decline, yes, just as there had been and would continue to be for many years before and afterward. There is no way to attribute one year out of that to a shift in the production code, as Medved does. Therefore, this must be considered another case where his claims are exaggerated and overstated, despite my aesthetic and moral basis for agreeing with many of his arguments, and my general support for the kind of criticism that Medved attempts (and the industry's need to consider it). [end of added passage]
            2. Poor proofreading, some errors, and a number of passages that are exaggerated. (The proofreading suggests that the book used an early word processor to produce, the errors that I caught are generally minor and don't tend to negate the points he's trying to make, the exaggerations tend to occur when Medved is clearly exhibiting an emotional involvement in the topic.)
            These are perhaps regrettable weaknesses, but can be overlooked.
            3. Some errors of reasoning can be found in various parts of the book, but again, while these are regrettable in that they will cause some readers to be unconvinced, Medved's failure to make all his arguments logically air-tight doesn't mean that most of the core ideas he relates are unsound. On the contrary, having come to his book years after doing my own research and arrived at *some* very similar conclusions, I know where he's coming from and the kinds of patterns and relationships he's trying to describe, in language that is accessible and convincing to general readers.

            Now, for some of the positive features of the book:
            1. Medved succeeds in refuting the claim that Hollywood product is simply "giving the public what it wants and demands."
            2. Medved succeeds in pointing to some of the patterns in which questionable content has come to pervade most mass media products, even when unnecessary for the effectiveness of the work and when it offends some or most of its potential audience.
            3. Medved demonstrates an understanding of some of the debates in aesthetics and criticism, and does a very good job questioning the nature of contemporary criticism, and pointing to some ways in which it (and film critics) falls short and risks becoming totally irrelevant.
            4. Medved's exploration of the motivations underlying contemporary standards for film production, film criticisms, and industry awards is probably one of the better ones that has appeared in a widely-available forum in recent years.
            5. Medved's introduction and conclusion sections should probably be required reading for anyone who wishes to judge the nature of this book. He is careful to draw a distinction between judgements about artistic merits and a moral evaluation of film content. He also tends to avoid simplistic fallacies that so often pervade this sort of writing, and he also concisely addresses the topic of film censorship that is frequently brought in to cloud the issue of film content. His discussion at no time can be simplified to the advocacy of censorship (as all industry defenders and apologists keep trying to do) and he insightfully cuts through many of the fallacies used by industry apologists in their public statements on these issues.
            6. Medved's understanding of the harmful effects of violent (and immoral) media is adequate, and I was impressed that he actually hired a consultant to interpret data at at least one point during the writing of the book, rather than claim expertise of his own in data analysis. I believe that Medved did as capable a job as he could, but he is no social scientist. The results, however, hold up surprisingly well to scrutiny, despite various fallacies that creep into some of his more elaborate efforts to explore and evaluate patterns and trends.
            7. Medved's suggestions for filmmakers are good ones! He describes well such issues as the different perceptions of critics when compared to general audiences, includes useful information to suggest differences between the artistic/industry communities and the broader public at large, examines various motivations (historical, political, artistic/personal etc.) that shape film products in ways that are often unappreciated by industry outsiders.

            All in all, this book was surprisingly good. It isn't flawless, and there are times when Medved's emotions are not held completely in check, but he usually manages to avoid the sorts of errors that are otherwise pervasive about this sort of subject, and even when he makes mistakes in reasoning and in reporting the data/observations about the media, these mistakes fortunately tend not to contradict the merit of most of his arguments. While most popular authors on this subject may may one or more bold claims and then run with them, Medved is fortunately much more careful. Therefore, when he does stumble, not much of the load he was carrying gets spilled. Unfortunately, the current edition has a Rush Limbaugh blurb on its front cover. This should be removed, even though Medved is apparently not a conservative commentator, because Medved is also correct when he states in this book that the issue of media content is not simply a conservative/liberal political issue. It instead concerns anyone who has a sense of ethics that shouldn't be needlessly contradicted by questionable filmmaking choices and the sort poor aesthetic standards that are common today.

            5 out of 5 stars liberals vs. real america.......2005-05-06


            Michael Medved is a great man. He almost gets it right in this
            book, but he doesn't go quite far enough. He is far too easy
            on the liberals who took over the entertainment industry and
            have used it ever since as a weapon against normal america.

            There is no question that the american entertainment industry
            (film and television) is out to destroy, religion, the family,
            patrotism, trust in our leaders and support for our troops.
            While at the same time, the industry promotes socialism, crime,
            secular humanism, sexual deveintism and drug use.

            There is also no question about the number of people that the
            film industry has destroyed. Medved is very good at chronicaling
            the destroyed lives they have caused. And how they turned the
            country against our troops during the vietnam war. He is also
            good at showing cause and effect. Liberals teach children to
            have sex which causes them to get pregenant which the liberals
            then solve by getting them to murder babies. Those involved are
            so tramatized by the experience that they fall into the trap
            of illegal drugs prepared for them by the liberals. Its all
            part of one larger effort to destroy america.

            Medved misunderstand how this situation came to be. He misses
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            used violence to intimidate the hollywood studios into hiring
            degenerate criminals and firing anyone with morality who stood
            in their way. Louis Mayer made good family films at MGM that
            were very popular. Yet he was fired at the peak of his
            popularity and MGM started to turn out endless hate america
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            let go and replaced with moral degenerates and drug addicts.
            Great moral epics like the Sands of Iwo Jima and Hondo were
            replaced by films about drug dealers or bikers or human rats
            infesting our cities.

            This was not done for profit. The movies long ago lost their
            mass audience and it didn't bother these people a bit. They
            need only to reach people one or twice over a few years to
            spread the disease of communist ideas.

            Michael Medved also doesn't go far enough in seeking a cure
            to the problem. I think the start is for communities to stop
            putting up with immorality. We need laws and judges that will
            shut those making obsene works down. Where we should start is
            by reforming the academy awards. Membership in the acadamy
            should require good moral character and love of America and
            freedom. The Academy also needs to start to look like America.
            It wasn't America that gave the top award last year to a film
            about sending poor women out to fight for the amusement of
            others and then murdering her because she was sick. The people
            who cast those votes need to be sent to france or somewhere else
            outside america.

            Medved has always been on the side of right. No better example
            can be seen than in how he treated "the last temptation" and
            "the passion". In the case of "the last temptation", all
            hollywood was cheering for anti-christian hate film that nobody
            wanted to see anyway. Then in the case of "the passion" all
            the same hollywood liberals were angry and disguested that
            such a film could be made or released. Medved was on the
            side of right in both cases against the liberals.

            The side of good is winning back America and the day will come
            when the criminals are brought to justice. A day when we will
            have entertainment for America again rather than filth and
            disease for a handful of liberals. First it was the presidency
            and the congress, next it will be the courts, after that comes
            education and entertainment. America will be redeemed and
            its institutions will begin to serve it again rather than a
            bunch of weak liberal intellectuals.

            HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA
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              HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA
              Michael Medsved
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              Hollywood vs. America  Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values
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                Michael Medved
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                Hollywood vs. America : Popular Culture and the War Against Traditional Values
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                  Michael Medved
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                  Hollywood VS. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values. (book reviews): An article from: Video Age International
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                    Hollywood VS. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values. (book reviews): An article from: Video Age International
                    Fred Hift
                    Manufacturer: TV Trade Media, Inc.
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                    Book Description

                    This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 480 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Title: Hollywood VS. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values. (book reviews)
                    Author: Fred Hift
                    Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
                    Date: January 1, 1993
                    Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc.
                    Volume: v13 Issue: n1 Page: p10(1)

                    Article Type: Book Review

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                    Hollywood Vs America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values
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                      Hollywood vs. America
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                        Hollywood vs. America
                        Michael Medved
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                        Hollywood vs. America  Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values
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                          Michael Medved
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                            Michael Medved
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                              Michael Medved
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                              The Goodbye Girl: Vocal Selections
                              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                              • The Goodbye Girl- Worthy and Yet Relatively Unknown!
                              The Goodbye Girl: Vocal Selections

                              Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Paperback

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                              ASIN: 0769207251

                              Book Description

                              Songs from this Broadway musical include: No More * A Beat Behind * My Rules Good News, Bad News * Don't Follow in My Footsteps * How Can I Win * Paula (An Improvised Love Song) * I Can Play This Part * What a Guy * No More (Pop Version).

                              Customer Reviews:

                              5 out of 5 stars The Goodbye Girl- Worthy and Yet Relatively Unknown!.......2001-05-05

                              This musical is by David Zippel and Marvin Hamlisch, who also collaborated on 'A Chorus Line'. In my opinion, 'The Goodbye Girl' is just as fantastic as 'A Chorus Line'. This book of vocal selections is great, and includes all of the most well- written numbers from the show. Songs are: No More, A Beat Behind, My Rules/Elliot Garfield Grant, Good News, Bad News, Don't Follow In My Footsteps, How Can I Win?, Paula: An Improvised Love Song, I Can Play This Part, What A Guy, and No More (Pop Version). Especially good are A Beat Behind (big group dance number), Don't Follow in My Footsteps (a mother- daughter duet), Paula (love duet), and I Can Play This Part (male solo). Martin Short and Bernadette Peters starred on Broadway...this book is well worth it! The songs will become your favorites!

                              All Wired Up: Wire Techniques for the Beadworker and Jewelry Maker (Beadwork How-To series)
                              Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                              • Not like the rest
                              • All Wired Up
                              • A wonderful beginning...
                              • great learning tool
                              • Basic+
                              All Wired Up: Wire Techniques for the Beadworker and Jewelry Maker (Beadwork How-To series)
                              Mark Lareau
                              Manufacturer: Interweave Press
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Paperback

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                              3. Creating Wire and Beaded Jewelry: Over 35 beautiful projects using wire and beads Creating Wire and Beaded Jewelry: Over 35 beautiful projects using wire and beads
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                              ASIN: 188301073X

                              Book Description

                              The step-by-step techniques featured in this richly illustrated book take the beginner who knows little about wirework on a journey to creating artistic and unique free-form jewelry. Using round wire that is readily available and economically viable, wireworkers learn everything from how to hold pliers to how to make ear wires, hook-and-eye closures, and cages for marbles and cabochons. Line drawings, photographs of finished objects, and a wirework gallery of pieces by the author and other contemporary wirework artists provide sample creations and ideas for the innovative wireworker.

                              Customer Reviews:

                              2 out of 5 stars Not like the rest.......2007-09-18

                              I'm really surprised to see how many positive reviews this book has gathered. Due to this I ordered my own copy as well as Bead on A Wire by Sharilyn Miller. The two can't even begin to be compared but I'll try. All Wired Up just lacks in good photos to show techniques, the drawings are small. There are only about 5 glossy pictures at the end of the book for inspiration pieces but none for projects. I'm very disappointed in this book. However Bead on A Wire is an exceptional teaching and inspiring book, with enlarged, color photos of every aspect of learning to work with wire. The projects are just beautiful and doable. I'm a beginner but sure Sharilyn Miller's book can accomodate all levels. So glad I purchased this and will return All Wired Up.

                              4 out of 5 stars All Wired Up.......2007-07-27

                              I like this book. The author put a lot of work into making the instructions as clear as possible. I like the way he starts with the basics which allows for practice and then goes into more complicated projects (but always referring back to the basics when appropriate).

                              4 out of 5 stars A wonderful beginning..........2007-07-01

                              Lareau's engaging, clear writing coupled with varied projects can give the beginner a solid start in wire work. It covers basic wire techniques, wraps (donut, bead and cabochon), cages, and findings (bails, headpins, ear wires, clasps). His book shows techniques through line-art drawings and has little in the way of eye candy until the gallery at the end.

                              4 out of 5 stars great learning tool.......2007-05-13

                              very easy to understand directions for the beginner. I would highly recommend this book for wire wrapping!

                              4 out of 5 stars Basic+.......2007-05-09

                              This is a very good book for teaching the basics of wire working and it is well written. The items covered are very common and are the foundation for most beaders today. The gallery is inspiring enough to send the reader on to bigger and better things.
                              All Wired Up Volume II Designs By Combination Artists
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                                All Wired Up Volume II Designs By Combination Artists
                                Provo Crafts
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                                ASIN: B000TOHYHE
                                All Wired Up: Volume 1 Designs By Combination Artists ; A Provo Craft Publication
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                                  Clella (Editor) Gustin
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                                  ASIN: B000LZ4IWU
                                  All Wired Up.(structured wiring systems)(Product Information)(Brief Article): An article from: Builder
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                                    Katy Tomasulo
                                    Manufacturer: Hanley-Wood, Inc.
                                    ProductGroup: Book
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                                    Wrth Satellite Broadcasting Guide 1995
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                                      Bart Kuperus
                                      Manufacturer: Billboard Books
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