In essence, it might really be a film about the media of life, about all the images and symbols of postmodern life that perpetually attack from all sides.... Lost in Translation
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... Stoddart, 1999)
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One of the greatest intellectual voyages of the twentieth century began with the study of an obscure but vigorous Elizabethan pamphleteer named Thomas Nashe. ...
Myths of Reality By Simon Danser (Alternative Albion, UK, 2005) Review By John Fraim www.symbolism.org "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel ...
... The Ground Beneath Her Feet.(Holt, 1999)
Commentary by John Fraim
fromI N S I G H T SSymbolic Perspectives On Popular CultureMay 12, 1999 | Number 16 | Sonoma County CaliforniaThe GreatHouse Company ...
... coming together, "tokens," pieces of the grand whole symbol fit into the embrace of matching tokens. All of us may be made whole again.
John Fraim is President of GreatHouse Company a research, consulting ...
The psychohistory list is one of the most unusual on the Internet. I've been a member of it for almost five years and still it is impossible to gauge the daily messages its members will conjure up.
Society ...
An interesting and important debate has been taking place in the pages of the British Medical Journal (http://www.bmj.com) which goes to the heart of the internet promise or nightmare. from Insights, ...
John Fraim reflects on Jack Nicholson's career and the lessons of Sean Penn's film The Pledge.The Pledge: To A Murdered Girls Mother? Or To A Little Girl?A Book Written By Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1959) A ...
John Fraim celebrates the collecting and writing of personal histories in this brief essay. Our history is a haphazard affair. There was once a time in my life, somewhere around college, when ...
In 1959, a social scientist named Vance Packard theorized that magazine ads of ice cubes in glasses of liquor suggested parts of a woman's anatomy. from Insights, Mid-November 1998
In 1959, a social ...
One of the subtle mega-trends in American culture in the second half of the twentieth century has been UFOs and alien symbolism. Whether the early events centering around Roswell, New Mexico and such groups ...
... Perspectives. Issue 31, 1995
John Fraim J.D., is Marketing Manager for a national corporation headquartered in Ohio and President & Publisher of The GreatHouse Company, a general trade publisher. ...
War of the Worlds Reviewed by John Fraim Steven Spielbergs remake of the classic HG Wells story The War of the Worlds, opens amidst a number of other earthbound wars. One is certainly the "war of ...