Sam Fuller, Newspaperman

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Before mass culture became pop culture, the reigning forms in the public sphere were the tabloid and the picture-show; the headline and the credit sequence were the virtual talismans of some wildly imagined global village...

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The Videofreex: Pronounced "Video Freeaks"

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Early video art was a Wild West of a creative front. Filmmaking required technical skills; a certain level of connoisseurship and an amateur-enthusiast know-how. As such, artist’s film remained tied, however complexly, to old notions of the art-object. Not so with video art...

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Nathaniel Dorsky's Intimate Screenings Move to MoMA Tonight

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“A great cut,” says Nathaniel Dorsky, “brings forth the eerie, poetic order of things,” and his films are case studies in how to use film editing for just such effects...

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