Grand Illusions

Humid and cold, I walked quickly, and as I approached the aluminum-framed glass doors of the entrance, I passed a woman who was toting a briefcase in her right hand and who had her left arm tightly and precariously wrapped around a brown-paper supermarket bag stuffed with items, the top layer of whi...

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Published in:The Midwest quarterly (Pittsburg) 2010-03, Vol.51 (3), p.243
Main Author: Ditta, Joseph M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art and life
Criticism and interpretation
Identity
Motion pictures
Political aspects
Renoir, Jean
Social aspects
Speeches, lectures and essays
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Summary:Humid and cold, I walked quickly, and as I approached the aluminum-framed glass doors of the entrance, I passed a woman who was toting a briefcase in her right hand and who had her left arm tightly and precariously wrapped around a brown-paper supermarket bag stuffed with items, the top layer of which threatened to spiU over. Both Murnau's vampire Orlock [F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu (1922)] . . . and Julians Phantom [Rupert Julian, Phantom of the Opera (1925)] are sexual variations of the other which John Stevenson aptly calls a convenient metaphor to describe the undeniable tendency to separate 'us' from 'them.\n But what we found in historical experience was that allegiance to culture, to the patterns of Ufe one was conditioned by, was a far more powerful force than the theoretically shared interests of the working classes across the nations.
ISSN:0026-3451