CULTURE
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How 2001: A Space Odyssey Became “the Hardest Film Kubrick Ever Made”
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has been praised in all manner of terms since it came out more than…
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Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies
Video essayists don’t normally retire; in most cases, they just drift into inactivity. Hence the surprise and even dismay of…
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Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the Internet Archive
Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and you’ll swear you’ve been hearing the…
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Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics
“I bet RadioShack was great once,” writes former employee Jon Bois in a much-circulated 2014 piece for SB Nation. “I…
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The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons That Haven’t Been Aired Since 1968
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a kind of default children’s…
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Just ourselves | Eurozine
In his 1993 book Pleasant the Scholar’s Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State, Maurice Goldring emphasised…
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Capitalism’s misunderstood architects | Eurozine
John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek published their landmark works over 75 years ago, so why do their ideas…
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“The person who hurt us, hurt both of us. But it affected us…
“The person who hurt us, hurt both of us. But it affected us differently. I isolated myself. I started taking…
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“They’re oblivious right now. They just think they’re at the…
“They’re oblivious right now. They just think they’re at the park. I’m the one who’s got to figure stuff out.…
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“Picture it, okay? Mardi Gras. New Orleans. Bourbon Street. I’m…
“Picture it, okay? Mardi Gras. New Orleans. Bourbon Street. I’m on college break with my three best childhood friends. Zak…
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