Ergebnis für "Original Sin" in Kunst & Unterhaltung

Im Universum der Dinge funkeln manche Sterne besonders hell. In diesem Podcast präsentiert Jörg Thadeusz offensichtliche Schmuckstücke und heimliche Attraktionen unter den Requisiten unserer Gegenwart. Warum benutzen wir einen Gegenstand besonders gern? Was macht aus einer guten Idee einen Designklassiker? Und warum schmerzt es uns, wenn bestimmte Gegenstände kaputtgehen?

How to do really bad things! What's a woman to wear when she kills her husband? Or plays her detective for a sap? And ultimately, what's the appropriate ensemble for facing a firing squad? Who is the femme fatale? Since time began, every culture has obsessed about her; women have wished to be her, and men - the dumb clucks - have connived to control her.

*The inspiration for the CNN original series Vegas: The Story of Sin City* “Outstanding pop-culture history.” —Newsday The “smart and zippy account” (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis’s...

For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and was defended as both a true history of Reconstruction (although it was based on fiction) and a new achievement in cinematic art. Paul McEwan examines the long and shifting history of its reception, revealing how the film became not just a cinematic landmark but also an influential force in American aesthetics and intellectual life.