Contemplative Prison Films As Zeitgeist Socio-political Film Studies was one of my favorite things from College. Here is the newest of my regular series. There were so many Prison Dramas in the 70s that are of a certain similar flavor, it bears noting how and … Read more December 13, 2006 by Fred Gooltz
The Final Shot of Three Days of the Condor – NSA Considered In 2004 The New York Times sat on a bombshell story about George W. Bush’s warrantless NSA wiretapping until AFTER his reelection. Why? Because the criminal who was exposed in the story (President Bush) asked them not to print the … Read more August 31, 2006November 25, 2025 by Fred Gooltz
The Final Shot of The Conversation – The Third Man considered Strangely, it wasn’t the recent NSA ruling by a Federal Court smacking down Bush’s illegal spy ring that got me to netflix one of my old favorite Watergate-era films. What got me going back to my favorite time in film … Read more August 26, 2006August 11, 2016 by Fred Gooltz
Socio-Political Film Studies: America 1970s The late 1960s was a time of radical change in the world of film. The Hollywood studio system was in decline, while the European art film movement created a new aesthetic standard for filmmaking. This industry transformation, encouraged by the … Read more April 27, 2005March 11, 2016 by Fred Gooltz
Memory, Alienation, History The play Mnemonic begins with a monologue about the location of memory processes in the brain and continues on to contemplate the genealogy of humankind: “Anyway, our job, the job of remembering, is to reassemble, to literally re-member, put the … Read more January 14, 2004 by Fred Gooltz
