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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
Fredric Jameson
Power
Military
About
Economic
Talk
Globalization
Spreading
Referring
Influence
Might
Us
Really
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
Fredric Jameson
War
Home
Achievement
Writing
World
Made
Films
Aid
States
Markets
Secure
Various
Clause
Generally
Pushed
Since
Massive
Foreign
End
Dominance
Effort
Politically
Packages
United
United States
Second
Treaties
World War
Second World War
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
Fredric Jameson
You
Consider
Moreover
Globalization
Always
Nationalist
Being
Wants
Us
Interests
Agree
Universal
Resist
Thinks
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
Fredric Jameson
Success
Game
Culture
Power
Sense
Bad
Imperialism
Mass
Global
Cultural
American
Often
Us
Interests
Reassuring
Downplay
Playing
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
Fredric Jameson
War
National
Defensive
France
Out
Imperialism
Onto
Countries
Particular
Most
Industries
Forced
Were
Cultural
American
Form
After
European
European Countries
Stands
Agreements
Binding
Film
Resistance
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
Fredric Jameson
Best
Capitalism
Reality
Exploitation
Destructive
Must
Various
Neutralize
Particular
Force
Globalization
Test
West
Motor
Mode
Behind
Transform
Forms
Capacity
Then
Resistance
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson
National
Corporate
Worrying
Markets
Locations
More
Structures
Feature
Cheaper
New
Global
Operations
Overseas
Labour
Transferring
Capacity
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
Gene Siskel
Made
Worst
Run
Fact
Pick
In Fact
Movie
Used
Ever
John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
Gene Siskel
Wonderful
Big
John
Guy
More
He
Goodman
Big Guy
Just
Actor
The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Gene Siskel
Me
Think
Out
Possibly
Would
Would-Be
Brothers
Bruise
Only
Could
He
Taken
Call
Chicago
Roger
Burt Reynolds
Might
Used
Who
Swing
Actor
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.
Gene Siskel
Food
Money
Recognition
TV
Some
Outlet
Name
Know
Tie
Got
Just
McDonald
Gonna
Fast
Fast Food
Ad
Flow
I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'
Gene Siskel
Punch
Would
See
Rather
Cough
Part
Head
Been
Than
Patch
Any
Movie
Again
Title
Turn
Should
Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.
Gene Siskel
Time
You
Experience
Hate
Walk
Will
Too
Aisle
Valuing
Out
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Feel
Ticket
Well
Empowered
Understand
Wage
Leave
Up
Than
Get
Going
Movie
Far
Far Less
Your
Less
Film
Seat
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Georg Brandes
Joke
Danish
He
Understand
Does
Who
It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
Georg Brandes
Country
Jolly
Pigs
Cow
Little
Warm
Milk
Play
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Georg Brandes
People
Impossible
Old
Father
Slow
Grass
Faster
Astonishing
Though
Run
Some
Could
Hill
Him
How
Climb
Were
Up
Very
Trying
Stairs
Them
Much
Old People
Compete
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes
Birth
Something
More
House
Came
Child
Unexpectedly
Quite
Afterwards
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
Georg Brandes
World
Too
Months
Hurry
Soon
Came
Two
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Georg Brandes
Kindness
Comrades
Goodness
Frankness
Varied
Brutality
Most
Encountered
Traits
Human
Reserve
Among
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Georg Brandes
Small
Always
Hearing
Pale
Thin
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Georg Brandes
Friendship
Smile
Me
Natural
Circle
Made
First
Back
Out
Only
Had
New
Academic
Looked
Years
Friendships
Gradually
Experiences
After
Acquaintances
Them
Should
Large
Grow
Grown
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
Georg Brandes
Day
Home
People
School
Discipline
Relatives
Active
Other
Spent
Those
Hours
Known
None
Were
Six
Anybody
Intercourse
Lived
Twenty-Four
Whom
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes
Truth
Time
Humanity
Stream
Leaves
Errors
Inheritance
Away
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Georg Brandes
War
Impossible
Enough
Soldiers
New
Boxes
Tin
Quite
Interest
Them
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.
George Edward Woodberry
Truth
Art
Light
Mind
Perception
Once
Easily
Thousand
Thousand Years
Variable
Individual
Re-Created
Come
Least
Years
Years Ago
Mathematician
Intellect
Infinite
May
Wherever
Certainty
Original
Expression
Recapture
Image
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.
George Edward Woodberry
Art
Nature
Science
Law
Mind
Power
Other
Extremely
Variable
Determine
Both
Factors
Primarily
Idea
Like
Does
Permanent
His
Artist
Order
Enduring
Skeleton
Forth
Works
Expression
Two
Set
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