Recent Posts Tagged With 'documentary'

• The Pointlessness of Authenticity

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 15:23 in internet, documentary, archival footage, spectatorship, cultural memory, paolo cherchi usai

  The famous "Surgeon's Photo" of the Loch Ness Monster, from 1934, revealed to be a hoax over 60 years later. By that time the image has become well-known and evocative of something wonderful and mysterious.It was better than real. The "shared" memo...

• Elvis Lives and Breathes. Apparently.

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 11:34 in documentary, elvis, digital, revolution, text, archival footage, cultural memory, jim cameron

  You may know about the new "Elvis Duets" CD (released November '08), that features duets with Elvis and current artists created in the studio by using digital tools (when Bono sang with Sinatra in 1995 without ever meeting in the same studio it was n...

• Shine A Light

  Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 23:56 in documentary, rolling stones, dylan, scorsese, archival footage

  One good thing that comes of working in movie theatres, is hanging around all those 20-somethings, far younger than me (I'm old enough to be their...older brother) and learning what's culturally hot, and what's the latest and coolest.What's old is ne...