Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy

[Borstalboy]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#1

Posted: 4/25/14 at 10:43am

Credits or credibility?

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[mrsyaj]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#2

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:25am

Wake up, Michael, it's 2014. Brecht and Artaud have left the building.

[Borstalboy]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#2

Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:34am

What did that article have to do with Brecht and Artaud?

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[PalJoey]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#3

Posted: 4/25/14 at 12:03pm

That's just what mrsyaj says whenever he sees the name Michael Feingold.

[mrsyaj]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#4

Posted: 4/25/14 at 12:41pm

I think he's just reciting clichés of mid twentieth century modernism here, where it's the artist's job to be daring and innovative and shake the audience out of its complacency, and if the audience isn't up for that, it's the end of civilization as we know it. Didn't postmodernism take us past the idea that if you're a TV or movie star you're a miserable sellout and the only great art is what's on the fringe?
Updated On: 4/25/14 at 12:41 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#5

Posted: 4/25/14 at 2:20pm

I must have misread Feingold's piece completely if that's what he was saying.

[Kad]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#6

Posted: 4/25/14 at 2:40pm

He's not saying that the stars have "sold out" at all. He's critiquing a system that reduces an actor to their most identifiable credit in order to make a sale.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[HogansHero]

Michael Feingold Talks $ellebrity and cultural literacy#7

Posted: 4/25/14 at 7:02pm

Didn't reaching post-graduate status take us past the idea that we need to analyze everything in terms of isms, modern, post modern or otherwise?