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• Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations
• Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
• Installation art-works analyzed
• Obituaries
• Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
• Photographic art and posters analyzed
• Poetry analyzed
• Psychology of religious belief
• Reviews of Films
• Sociological essays
• Theatrical productions analyzed

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  • Discussion and Mind-Probing (945)
  • Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations (55)
    • "The Devil, Probably” By Robert Bresson, 1977 – Bresson’s Incredible Cinematic Art Talks For Itself (1)
    • A Shot about A Suspicious Spot – How Staining Your Identity Can Make You a Hero – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) (1)
    • An Odd Ode to The Human Goddess Camille (Who, It Seems, Needs A Camel for A Husband) – From Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt/Le mepris” (1964) (1)
    • Anne Marie Mieville’s “The Book of Mary” – Mary’s Improvised Dance- Pantomime Under the Music of Gustav Mahler (1)
    • “The Third Generation” By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Wise Young Girl” (Julie Delpy) In “Detective” (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • Being Victimized By Socio-economic Anomie Under The Banner Of Profit-making Energetically Moved By Entrepreneurial Wind – From Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Il Grido/The Cry” (1957) (1)
    • Blending Of Identities Refreshes A Monotonous Life – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970) (1)
    • Buddha-like Head Of The Family: The Keeper Of The Hearth’s Fire Alive – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodeskaden” (1970) (1)
    • Chantal Akerman’s “Night And Day” (1991) – Immortal Femininity and Mortal Masculinity (1)
    • Childishness And Cowardice Of A Macho Personality – Macho Sissies In Life, In Politics And In History From Tennessee Williams/Elia Kazan’s “Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) (1)
    • Democracy’s Conservative and the Conservative Democrat (Natural Rivals and Calculating Collaborators – Profit-makers, From “Pigsty” by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969) (1)
    • Duchesse de Guermantes And Charles Swann Feel Themselves Before Death – From Volker Schlondorff’s “Un Amour de Swann/Swann In Love” (1984) (1)
    • Fabrizio And Agostino – From “Before the Revolution” (1962) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
    • Fascist Pedagogy Of Self-Overcoming: Training Young People To Do Things Which Are Unbearable For Human Beings To Do – From “Salo” (1976) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • For Abel Rosenberg, Hero of Ingmar Bergman’s “Serpent’s Egg” (1977), To Insert A Billion Mark Banknote Into the Mouth of a Barman Is Just a Healthy Joke (1)
    • Glauce (King Creon’s daughter) Is A Victim Of Medea’s Violent Magic – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Medea” (1969) (1)
    • How A Sublime World of Metaphors And Symbols Crowns And By This Transubstantiates The Earthly Love – Volker Schlondorff’s “Swann in Love” (1984) (1)
    • Imagination vs. Being (The Spiritually Pauperized Architect And His Doomed Son) – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970) (1)
    • Jason-the Child And the Adult, And Centaurus Chiron – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Medea” (1970) (1)
    • Jean Luc Godard ’s “Every Man For Himself” (1980) – Life Under Digitally Ordered Human Chaos (1)
    • Jean-Luc Godard and Audrey Klebaner’s Psychological Etude of a Young Woman’s Encounter With Love. – From “In Praise of Love” (2001) (1)
    • Laius, Jocasta (Silvana Mangano) And Their Son Oedipus – From “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • Little Johan Meets The Hotel Room Service Attendant (Hakan Jahnberg) – From Ingmar Bergman’s “The Silence” (1963) (1)
    • Luchino Visconti’s “Terra Trema – The Earth Is Trembling” (1948) – The Hero an Italian Fisherman Who Is Not Only the Savior of His Family and the Moral Dignity of Other Workers, but of Life (1)
    • Luis Bunuel’s “That Obscure Object of Desire” (1977) – The Eternal Duel-Duo Between Its Majesty-Money and Human Nature (1)
    • Marcel-the Writer And Marcel-the Boy During WWI – From Raul Ruiz’s “Time Regained” (1999) (1)
    • Maurice Pialat’s “Van Gogh” (1991) – Vincent and Marguerite’s Brief Eternity (1)
    • Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow Up”, 1966 – Pure Sexual Desire As Infantile Sexuality, While Love Starts as An Existential Drive Towards Another Person (1)
    • Nana As A Scandalous Human Uniqueness, Damned, Condemned And Doomed – “Vivre Sa Vie”, (1962) By Jean Luc Godard (The 4th Etude About Godard’s Nana) (1)
    • Petra and Karin – Their Creative Enterprise, their Love And Inequality – From “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” (1972) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • Preparation For War: Vicious (In All Too Human Way) Battle For Domination – From Ronald Neame’s “Tunes of Glory” (1960) (1)
    • Retarded Boy Rokkuchan As A Demiurge Of Technological Civilization – From “Dodes’Kaden” (1970) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • Right-wingers Today and Judaist Clergy In Christ’s Times On The One Hand, And Liberal Democrats Today And Pontius Pilate In Christ’s Time , “The Messiah”, By Rossellini (1)
    • Sugar-taste, Sugar-dream, Sugar-dreaming, Sugar-excitement, Sugar-prosperity, Sugar-destructiveness – From Dušan Makavejev’s “Sweet Movie” (1974) (1)
    • Surrealist Imagery As The Film-director’s Expressive Tool – The Shot Is From “Chinese Roulette” (1976) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • The Art Of Meaningful Composition Of A Shot – From “Lili Marleen” (1981) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • The Body Of Truth And The Body Of Glamour – From “Hour of the Wolf” (1968) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • The Film-director Is Challenging the Deceitful Narratives Of Historical Events – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) (1)
    • The Internal Power To Resist Abusive Treatment Grows Together With The Very Experience Of Resistance From Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander” (1981) (1)
    • The Knight Of Love – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodeskaden” (1970) – Is Betrayal Of Love A Spiritual Betrayal? (1)
    • The Role Of “Bizarre” Visual Images As An Intellectual Stimulation Of The Film-viewers – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers” (2003) (1)
    • The Tiny Space of Civilization – Jean-Luc Godard’s “Film-Socialisme” (2010) (1)
    • The Use Of “Gaze Aside Without Verbalization” In Cinema – Examples From “Medea” (1969) And “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • The Woman With The Sky In Her Eyes – From Ingmar Bergman “The Passion of Anna” (1969) (1)
    • Three Phases Of Human Relationship With Death – From “Time Regained” (1999) By Raul Ruiz (Film Based On Marcel Proust’s Novel) (1)
    • Three Positions Towards Death (Of Those Who Personally Feell Distant From Death’s Touch) – From Maurice Pialat’s “The Mouth Agape/The Slack-Jawed Mug” (1974) (1)
    • To Become Ontologically Authentic Personality (Complex Of Sublime Selfhood) Or To Share Life With Others – Jean-Luc Godard’s “Vivre sa vie/My Life To Live” (1962) (1)
    • Trivial Sex As A Gift From Destiny – From Maurice Pialat “The Mouth Agape” (1974) (1)
    • Visual Poem About Existentially Spiritual Transformation of Human Beings – “Teorema/Theorem” By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1968) (1)
    • When Intense Idealistic Belief “Massively” Collapses – From “Salome’s Last Dance” (1988) By Ken Russell (1)
    • When Life Is the Occupation with Technology And Financial Rivalry – From “Sisters, Or The Balance Of Happiness” (1979) By Margarethe Von Trotta (1)
    • When People On Tops Of Social Hierarchy Stopped To Be Reliable/Respectable – From “The Discreet Charm Of Bourgeoisie” (1972) By Luis Bunuel (1)
    • When Youthful Intelligent Vitality Becomes Incompatible With the Conditions of Spiritual and Physical Survival – Robert Bresson’s “Devil Probably” (1977) (1)
    • Young People’s Psychological Condition according To Akira Kurosawa’s “Sanjuro” (1962) (1)
  • Films (and stills from the films) analyzed (143)
    • Akira Kurosawa (9)
    • Alain Resnais (11)
    • Alain Tanner (2)
    • Alexander Kluge (1)
    • Anne-Marie Mieville (1)
    • Barbet Schroeder (1)
    • Bernardo Bertolucci (6)
    • Bertrand Tavernier (1)
    • Chantal Akerman (1)
    • Claude Berri (1)
    • Claude Miller (1)
    • Claude Sautet (1)
    • Dušan Makavejev (1)
    • Elia Kazan (1)
    • Federico Fellini (2)
    • Francois Truffaut (1)
    • Fred Zinnemann (1)
    • Gerard Mordillat (1)
    • Hector Babenco (1)
    • Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
    • Ingmar Bergman (10)
    • Jacques Demy (1)
    • Jean Cocteau (1)
    • Jean Delannoy (1)
    • Jean-Luc Godard (13)
    • Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (2)
    • John Huston (1)
    • Joseph Mankiewicz (1)
    • Ken Russell (2)
    • Kenji Mizoguchi (1)
    • Liliana Cavani (1)
    • Louis Malle (2)
    • Luchino Visconti (2)
    • Luis Bunuel (3)
    • Margarethe von Trotta (2)
    • Marguerite Duras (3)
    • Maurice Pialat (3)
    • Michelangelo Antonioni (3)
    • Mike Nichols (1)
    • Moshe Mizrahi (1)
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini (11)
    • R.W. Fassbinder's Films With Gunther Kaufmann (2)
    • Radu Gabrea (1)
    • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (15)
    • Raul Ruiz (1)
    • Rene Clement (1)
    • Robert Bresson (4)
    • Roberto Rossellini (3)
    • Ronald Neame (1)
    • Stanley Kramer (1)
    • Strong Males’ Four Basic Tasks (1)
    • Sydney Lumet (1)
    • Volker Schlondorff’ (2)
    • Werner Herzog (3)
    • Wim Wenders (2)
    • Yasujiro Ozu (1)
  • Installation art-works analyzed (11)
    • Bob Trotman (1)
    • Charles Avery (1)
    • Chen Shaoxiong (1)
    • Hemispheric Dome – Architectural Discourses With People (With Existence) And With “Gods” (With Metaphysical Essences) (1)
    • Judith Peck (1)
    • Meret Oppenheim (1)
    • Olafur Eliasson (1)
    • Robert Rauschenberg (3)
  • Obituaries (16)
    • Alain Resnais (1)
    • Alice Miller (1)
    • Audie Murphy – A Bressonian Actor In American Western (!?!) (1)
    • Bruno Cremer (1)
    • Bruno S. (1932 – 2010) (1)
    • Claude Miller (1)
    • Erland Josephson (1)
    • Günther Kaufmann (1)
    • Howard Zinn (1)
    • Jean Laplanche (1)
    • Leo Steinberg (1)
    • Michael Jackson (1)
    • Raul Ruiz (1)
    • Theodore Roszak (1)
    • Walter Schmidinger (1)
  • Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed (233)
    • Alberto Giacometti (5)
    • Albrecht Durer (2)
    • Amedeo Modigliani (2)
    • Andre Derain (1)
    • Andy Warhol (1)
    • Arno Braker (1)
    • Auguste Rodin (1)
    • Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) (2)
    • Barry X Ball (2)
    • Bob Trotman (2)
    • Caravaggio (1)
    • Chaim Soutine (3)
    • Claude Monet (1)
    • Constantin Brancusi (3)
    • Dorothea Tanning (2)
    • Edgar Degas (2)
    • Edouard Manet (5)
    • Edvard Munch (2)
    • Edward Hopper (7)
    • Egon Schiele (8)
    • El Greco’ (1)
    • Emil Nolde (21)
    • Ernst Barlach (1)
    • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (5)
    • Eugène Delacroix (1)
    • Fernando Botero (1)
    • Francis Bacon (2)
    • Francis Picabia (4)
    • Francisco Goya (2)
    • Frantisek Janousek (1)
    • George Grosz (7)
    • Georges Rouault (1)
    • Giorgio de Chirico (5)
    • Giovanni Angelo del Maino’s (1470-1536) “Saint John The Evangelist” (1520-30) (1)
    • Giovanni Battista Moroni (1)
    • Gustav Courbet (1)
    • Gustav Klimt (3)
    • Hans Bellmer (2)
    • Henri Rousseau (1)
    • Henry Matisse (5)
    • Henry Moore (2)
    • Honore Daumier (1)
    • Jacob Epstein (3)
    • Jacques Louis David (1)
    • James Enzor (2)
    • Jean Dubuffet (1)
    • Joan Miro (5)
    • John Heartfield (1)
    • Joseph Mankiewicz (1)
    • Judith Peck (1)
    • Jules Bastien-Lepage (1)
    • Karl Hubbuch (1)
    • Kathe Kollwitz (4)
    • Kazimir Malevich (2)
    • Leonardo Da Vinci (1)
    • Leonora Carrington (2)
    • Lucas Cranach (2)
    • Lucian Freud (1)
    • Man Ray (4)
    • Marcel Duchamp (3)
    • Marcel Janco (2)
    • Marino Marini (1)
    • Mary Cassatt (1)
    • Max Beckmann (9)
    • Max Ernst (15)
    • Milein Cosman (1)
    • Oscar Dominguez (2)
    • OsKar Kokoschka (2)
    • Otto Dix (6)
    • Pablo Picasso (12)
    • Paul Cezanne (1)
    • Paul Delvaux (2)
    • Paul Gauguin (3)
    • paul klee (5)
    • Pierre-August Renoir (1)
    • Pieter Breughel (1)
    • Rembrandt Von Rijns (1)
    • Rene Magritte (10)
    • Roberto Matta (3)
    • Roland Penrose (1)
    • Salvador Dali (1)
    • Sofonisba Anguissola (1)
    • Thomas Hart Benton (4)
    • Victor Brauner (4)
    • Vincent Van Gogh (eight self-portraits) (1)
    • Wifredo Lam (2)
    • Willem de Kooning (1)
    • William Aiken Walker (1)
    • Wolfgang Paalen (2)
  • Photographic art and posters analyzed (31)
    • A Call Back to Pre-democratic America: (1)
    • Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels As One Person (1)
    • Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Photos of Goebbels (1)
    • Disappointed in mortals… (1)
    • Dora Maar (10)
    • Germany, Pale Mother (1)
    • Humanity of the Psychological Frankensteins (1)
    • John Heartfield (1)
    • Man Ray (1)
    • Photo Of A Group Of Schoolboys With Ludwig Wittgenstein And Adolf Hitler In Their Early Adolescence Amongst Them (1)
    • Playing Cards With the Young Boys (1)
    • Propaganda Posters (2)
      • Italian Fascist Propaganda Poster – Totalitarian Lesson To Democracy And Democratic People (1)
    • Rag-picker in Paris, 1901 (1)
    • The Gaze of a Righteous Murder (1)
    • The Mother Of Child Psychoanalysis And A Prolific Author Melanie Klein As An Exemplary Master Of Empathy (1)
    • The Psychology of Pet Owning (1)
    • What Childhood Photos of Churchill and Hitler Can Teach Us? (1)
    • Why Bishops Attend A Nazi Public Event? (1)
    • Will Beauty Save the World? (1)
  • Poetry analyzed (40)
    • Alfred de Vigny (1)
    • Allen Ginsberg (1)
    • Ezra Pound (2)
    • Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936) (1)
    • Harold Pinter’s Poem “American Football” (A Reflection Upon The Gulf War)” (1)
    • Henri Michaux (1)
    • Jacques Prevert (1)
    • Marina Tsvetaeva (17)
    • Octavio Paz (2)
    • Oscar Wilde (1)
    • Pablo Neruda (1)
    • Paul Celan (2)
    • Paul Eluard (1)
    • Paul Valery (1)
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
    • Rene Char (1)
    • Robert Frost (1)
    • Theodore Roethke (2)
    • Wallace Stevens (1)
  • Psychology of religious belief (19)
    • Alfred de Vigny (1)
    • Allen Ginsberg’s Poem “Everyday” (1)
    • “The Messiah” (1975) by Roberto Rossellini (review) (1)
    • “Through Glass Darkly” (1961) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Winter Light” (1962) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Winter Light” by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • Belief – Its Versatile Contents and its Psychological “Form” (1)
    • Belief in God as a Psychological Defense (1)
    • Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • Emil Nolde’s “Resurrection” – Nolde’s Interpretation of Christ’s Resurrection Contradicts The Ideas Of Early Christians (1)
    • Giovanni Angelo del Maino’s (1470-1536) “Saint John The Evangelist” (1520-30) (1)
    • Giovanni Battista Moroni’s (1520–1579 ) “A Gentleman in Adoration Before the Baptism of Christ” (1555–1560) (1)
    • In Vain, With My Eyes As With Nail (1)
    • Proud Sinners As Good Christians (1)
    • Roberto Matta (1)
    • The Magic Helpers (1)
    • The Religious Sin of Pious Complacency (1)
    • Why Catholic Bishops Attend A Nazi Public Event (1)
  • Reviews of Films (151)
    • "Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • "Einstein" (2008) by Liliana Cavani (1)
    • "Nazarin" (1959) by Luis Bunuel (1)
    • "Sanjuro" (1962), by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • "Time Regained" (TR) by Raoul Ruiz (1999) (1)
    • ”Il Grido/The Cry” (1957) By Michelangelo Antonioni (1)
    • “35 Shots of Rum” (2008) By Claire Denis (1)
    • “A Flame in My Heart” (1987) By Alain Tanner (1)
    • “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) by Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams (1)
    • “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” (1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Alice in the Cities” (1974) By Wim Wenders (1)
    • “And the Ship Sails On” (1983) By Federico Fellini (1)
    • “Au Hazard Balthazar” (1966) And “Devil Probably” (1977) By Robert Bresson (1)
    • “Autumn Sonata” (1978) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Baxter, Vera Baxter” by Marguerite Duras (1977) (1)
    • “Berlin Affair” (1985) by Liliana Cavani (2)
    • “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1980) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Bless the Beast and Children” by Stanley Kramer (1971) (1)
    • “Burmese Harp” (1957) by Kon Ichikawa (1)
    • “Casanova” (1976) by Federico Fellini (1)
    • “Chinese Roulette” (1976) by R.W. Fassbinder (1)
    • “Clara Schumann” (2008), by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
    • “Confessions of Police Captain to the District Attorney” (1971) by Damiano Damiani (1)
    • “CONFORMIST” (1971) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
    • “Contempt/Le mepris” (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Cuentame Como Paso” (“Tell Me How it Happened”) by Miguel Angel Bernardeau (1)
    • “Death in Venice” (1971) by Luchino Visconti (1)
    • “Dersu Uzala” (1975) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “Despair/Journey Into Light” (1978) by Rainer-Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Destroy, She Said” (1968) by Marguerite Duras (1)
    • “Detective” (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Diary of the Country Priest” (1951) By Robert Bresson (1)
    • “Dodes’kaden” (1970) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “Elysium” by Neill Blomkamp (2013) (1)
    • “Faithless” by Liv Ullmann (1)
    • “Fear of Fear” (1975) by R.W. Fassbinder (2)
    • “Film Socialisme” (2010) By Jean-Luc Godard (JLG) (1)
    • “Fire Within” (1963) By Louis Malle (1)
    • “First Name Carmen/Prenom Carmen” (1983) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Foyle’s War” by Anthony Horowitz (1)
    • “From The Life Of The Marionettes” By Ingmar Bergman (1980) (1)
    • “Germany in autumn” By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Germany, Pale Mother” (1980) by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
    • “Golden Age/L'Age d'Or ” (1930) By Luis Bunuel (1)
    • “Goodbye Language/Adieu au langage ” (2014) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Hidden Fortress” (1958) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “Hiroshima mon amour” (1957) By Alain Resnais (1)
    • “Hour Of The Wolf” (1968) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “I Want To Go Home” (1989) by Alain Resnais (1)
    • “Ich Bin die Andere” (“I am the Other Woman”) by Margarethe von Trotta (2006) (1)
    • “Ikiru/To Live” by Akira Kurosawa (1952) (1)
    • “In a Year of 13 Moons” (1978) By R.W. Fassbinder (1)
    • “In the Electric Mist” (2010) by Bernard Tavernier (1)
    • “Kind Hearted Woman” by David Sutherland (1)
    • “La guerre est finie/The War Is Over” (1966) By Alain Resnais (1)
    • “La Terra Trema/The Earth Is Trembling/The Earth Trembles/Will Tremble” (1948) By Luchino Visconti (1)
    • “Lacombe Lucien” (1974), By Louis Malle (1)
    • “Lancelot of the Lake” (1974) By Robert Bresson (1)
    • “Last Year in Marienbad” (1960) By Alain Resnais (1)
    • “L’Enfance Nue” (1968) By Maurice Pialat (1)
    • “Le Petit Soldat/The Little Soldier” (1960–1963) By Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Letter to America”, (1999) by Kira Muratova (1)
    • “Life and Nothing But/La vie at rien d’autre” (1989) by Bertrand Tavernier (1)
    • “Lili Marleen” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981) (1)
    • “Lola” by Jacques Demy (1961) (1)
    • “Lola” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981) (1)
    • “Long Day’s Journey into the Night” (1962) By Sidney Lumet (1)
    • “Love Unto Death” (1984) by Alain Resnais (1)
    • “Madame Rosa” By Moshe Mizrahi (1)
    • “Made in USA (1966) by Jean-Luc Godard (2)
    • “Man Like Eva/Ein mann wie Eva” (1983) by Radu Gabrea (1)
    • “Medea” (1969) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • “Melo” (1986) by Alain Resnais (1)
    • “Milarepa” by Liliana Cavani (1974) (1)
    • “Muriel, Or The Time Of Return” By Alain Resnais (1964) (1)
    • “My life and Times with Antonin Artaud” (1993) by Gerard Mordillat (1)
    • “Nathalie Granger” (1972) by Marguerite Duras (1)
    • “Nazarin” (1959) by Luis Bunuel (1)
    • “Nelly and Mr. Arnaud” (1995) by Claude Sautet (1)
    • “Night and Day” (1991) by Chantal Akerman (1)
    • “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • “Oh, Woe Is Me” by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Our Lady of the Assassins” (2000) by Barbet Schroeder (1)
    • “Our Music” by Jean-Luc Godard (2004) (1)
    • “Peter Pan” (2003) by P.J. Hogan (1)
    • “Pickpocket” (1959) by Robert Bresson (1)
    • “Pigpen/Pigsty/La Porcile” (1969) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • “Salome’s Last Dance” (1988) by Ken Russell (1)
    • “Sanjuro” (1962), by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “Sansho the Bailiff” (1954) by Kenji Mizoguchi (1)
    • “Sisters or the Balance of Happiness” (1979) By Margarethe von Trotta (1)
    • “Socrates” (1971) By Roberto Rossellini (1)
    • “Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
    • “Strongman Ferdinand” (1977) by Alexander Kluge (1)
    • “Stroszek” (1977) By Werner Herzog (1)
    • “Swan In Love” (1984) By Volker Schlöndorff' (1)
    • “Sweet Movie” (1976) By Dusan Makavejev (1)
    • “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (RWF) (1)
    • “The Cannibals” by Liliana Cavani (1969) (1)
    • “The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach” by Jean Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (1968) (1)
    • “The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie” (1972) by Luis Bunuel (1)
    • “The Dreamers” (2003) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
    • “The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail” (1945) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “The Merchant of Four Seasons” (1971) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “The Messiah” (1975) by Roberto Rossellini (1)
    • “The Mouth Agape/The Slack-Jawed Mug” (1974) by Maurice Pialat (1)
    • “The Night of Iguana” (1964) by John Huston – based on Tennessee Williams’ play (1)
    • “The Rise of Louis XIV” by Roberto Rossellini (1966) (1)
    • “The Rite” (1969) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “The Salamander” (1971) by Alain Tanner (1)
    • “The Serpent’s Egg”1976, by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “The Sheltering Sky” (1990) by Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
    • “The Shout” (1978) by Jerzy Skolimowski (1)
    • “The Silence” by Ingmar Bergman (1963) (1)
    • “The Skin” (“La Pelle” – 1981) by Liliana Cavani (1)
    • “The Soft Skin” (1964) By Francois Truffaut (1)
    • “The Testament of Orpheus” by Jean Cocteau (1959) (1)
    • “The Touch” (1971) by Ingmar Bergman (2)
    • “The Virgin’s Bed” (“Le lit de la vierge”), 1969, by Philip Garrel (1)
    • “Theorem” (1968) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • “Through Glass Darkly” (1961) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Tokyo Twilight”, 1957, by Yasujiro Ozu (2)
    • “Trophy Wife” (“Potiche”), 2010, by Francois Ozon (1)
    • “Tunes of Glory” by Ronald Neame (1)
    • “Uranus” by Claude Berri (1)
    • “Van Gogh” (1991) by Maurice Pialat (1)
    • “Vivre Sa Vie/My Life to Live” (1962) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “What are Clouds?” (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (2)
    • “Whity” By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1970) (1)
    • “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”(1966) By Mike Nichols (Based on the Play of Edward Albee) (1)
    • “Winter Light” (1962) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Yojimbo” (1961) and “Sanjuro” (1963) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “Yojimbo” (1961) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “You ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Alain Resnais (1)
    • “Zabriskie Point”/ZP, (1970) By Michelangelo Antonioni (1)
    • Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Me and You/Io e Te” (2)
    • In Praise of Love/Éloge de l'amour (2001) By Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • Margarethe Von Trotta's “Hannah Arendt” (1)
    • Review #2 of “What are Clouds?” (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • Star Trek (1)
    • The One Who Cried When He Watched James Bond Movie(s) (1)
  • Sociological essays (173)
    • 21st Century Ideological Mystification – The GOPists And DNCists Instead Of Conservatives And Democrats (1)
    • A Radical Change in the Nature of Modern Economy (1)
    • About Gay-labeling and Perception of Personal Life In “Technical Terms” (1)
    • Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels As One Person (1)
    • Adult Victims of (Childish) Toys (1)
    • American Neo-conservatives Have Disoriented and Suffocated American Democracy (While Democrats Were Enjoying Their Positions, Salaries and Intelligent Speech) (1)
    • American Rich As Personifications of Greatness of Our Nation (1)
    • Americans Who Are “hypnotized” By Their Semi-prosperity Routine – Jobs, Careers, Hobbies, Holidays, Pills, Etc. And Habitually Don’t Look Outside (Or Look There Through Their Eyelids) (1)
    • Anti-democratic Psychopathology Of The Need To Be Entertained (1)
    • Artificially Induced Hunger for Currency (2)
    • “Covid-19” or Coronavirus in USA (1)
    • “High Noon” By Fred Zinnemann, 1952, Gary Cooper, The Hooligans, Conformist Philistines And How D. Trump Is Striving To Become An American Super-duper President in 2020 (1)
    • “Trump’s Anti-science Era Begins” (1)
    • Barack Obama’s Psychological Complex? (1)
    • Belief – Its Versatile Contents and its Psychological “Form” (1)
    • Brief Notes on “Fascist”* Psycho-social Regression in Seemingly Normal People (1)
    • Brief Notes On Joseph Stalin Complex In Many Americans Today (1)
    • Camels with Strong Canine Teeth and with Hunches of Wealth (1)
    • Ch. 2 – The American Story (1)
    • Ch. 7. SRussian Marxism’s Boiling and Bullying – “Laws of Historical Development are on our Side” (1)
    • Ch. 7. SRussian Marxism’s Boiling and Bullying -“Inevitable Laws of Historical Development are on our Side” Part 2 (1)
    • Ch. 9. We-are-the-richest: from Monking (Money-making) to Buysumption (Consumption of Money) (1)
    • Ch. 9. We-are-the-richest: from Monking (Money-making) to Buysumption (Consumption of Money), Last pp. 9-10 (1)
    • Children of Money (1)
    • Clinton and Trump: Where Do They Stand On Science? (1)
    • Complicated Views As A Democratic Value (1)
    • Conservatives (Who Rely on Beliefs) and Technical Sciences (1)
    • Creation or Initiation of Wars as a Mental Disorder (1)
    • Cultural Illiteracy Leads To Psychological Totalitarization (1)
    • Daimonic As Energy of Cultural Creativity (1)
    • Democracy And Anti-democracy Inside Democracy (1)
    • Democracy As A (Democratic) Pluralism Of Mythological Narrations (1)
    • Destroying the Middle Class and Fabricating Enemies (1)
    • Destruction of the Humane Concept of Human Happiness (1)
    • Donald Rumsfeld’s “Imaginary Thinking” (1)
    • Drum-Trump, Bill-Mills* And Their Passionate and Poor Supporters (1)
    • Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism (2)
    • Few Examples of Political Theft Of Utopian Promises (1)
    • Financial Stalinism (1)
    • Four Delusions of Grandeur (1)
    • Fragmentation of Psychological Wholeness (1)
    • Free Riders and Freaky Haters (1)
    • From (Democratic) Pluralism to Totalitarian Social Hierarchy (1)
    • From Fake Prosperity To Fake Reasons For Austerity (1)
    • From Prestige of Religious/Political Beliefs to Prestige of Social Elites (1)
    • From Traditional (Existentially Mass-cultural) To High-tech Entertainment (1)
    • Genocidal Gene In Many Of The Neocons And Neoliberals Today Who Are Afraid That People Will Deprive Them Of Their Power and Wealth (1)
    • Good News and New Goods For The One Percent Of American Population (1)
    • Hollywood Stars’ Socio-morphic Acting – When Movie-matic Medium Is Sensitive Only To Social Layer Of The World (1)
    • How Americans Failed Obama Challenge (1)
    • How Mass Culture Prepares Population for Austerity Measures (1)
    • How Money Hired Consumerism and Entertainment (1)
    • How Stalin Hardliners* Type Of Soviet Communists Have Resurfaced Under A New Ideological Skin Inside The American Democracy (1)
    • How to Handle the Beast (1)
    • Human Health And Longevity Are Linked To Socio-economic Status (1)
    • Human Illness As A Precious Natural Resource for Making Profit (1)
    • Humanity of the Psychological Frankensteins (1)
    • Hypothetical Notes On – Idealistic Bubbles In Political Calculations As Part Of Human Psychological Makeup (1)
    • Identification As A Psychological Mechanism Creating (Imaginary) Identity Of A People With Miserable Social Status And Those Whose Status Is Respectable (1)
    • Identification Based On Difference and Margarethe Von Trotta's Search For a Joint-gender Perspective (1)
    • Identification Of Viewers With Star/Character In Commercial Movies As An Example Of Totalitarian Symbiotic Togetherness (1)
    • Ideology in SRussia (Soviet Russia) and Bushmerica (1)
    • Inevitable Metaphoricity of Humanistic Science (1)
    • Infuriated Philistine’s Happy Hate (1)
    • It Happens Like This… (1)
    • Jean-Luc Godard – The Exceptional Film-director (1)
    • Legacy Of Psychological Retardation – Westerns As Our Tragic Mass-cultural Inheritance (1)
    • Liberal Psyche and Destiny of Liberalism in U.S. (1)
    • Logic of Fascization (1)
    • Lucian Freud (1)
    • Luxuriously Euphoric Times (1)
    • Macho Men and Battered Women (1)
    • Manipulative Thinking As Rooted In Infantilism And Psychologically Regressive Behavior (1)
    • Mark Twain as a Cultural Authority (1)
    • Menacing Lessons of Junta (1)
    • Militarism’s Totalitarian Flavor (1)
    • Misinformation On Social Media (1)
    • Money-archy as a New Monarchy (1)
    • Moneysturbators – Trouble Tribe of Not Omnivorous And Not Carnivorous, But Moneyvorous Profit-makers (1)
    • Murderers Inside Us (1)
    • Murderous Concatenation – When Anomie Gradually Takes the Place of Pluralism (1)
    • Nancy Paralyzi as a Licensed Scapegoat (1)
    • Narcissistic Bubble (1)
    • Neo-Conservative’s Rhetoric of “Free Market” (1)
    • Notes On Involution of Post-modernity (1)
    • Notes on Mass-cultural Americans (The Ones Who Have Mass-cultural Souls) (1)
    • Notes On The Amazing Post-WW2 Experiment Of Designing Human Behavior (1)
    • Notes on The Psychological Essence of “Conservative” Socio-political Posture (1)
    • Notes On The Toughers And The Gentlers – Two Halves Of The Majority of American Population In The 21st Century (1)
    • Pedagogy of Cultural Illiteracy (1)
    • People Who Exist Too Heavily … Drowned In Everyday Existence (1)
    • Perverted Alliance between Truth and Salary (1)
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Republic of Salo” and His Concept of Post-modern Western Civilization (1945 – 21st Century) (1)
    • Plutarch’s Nightingale – An Etude Including Exercise In Lyrical Dystopia (1)
    • Political Hooliganism – A President's Verbally Uncivil And Rude Communications (1)
    • Politicians and Financial Entrepreneurs with Autistic Features (1)
    • Poorple and Wealthyple (1)
    • Populism as a Smiling Mask of Anti-humanism (1)
    • Post-WWII Radical Divorce Between American Generations (1)
    • Primal Scenes (Three Demons of Theatricality) (1)
    • Private Wealth’s Globally Expanded Predatoriness (1)
    • Problem of Love In Politics (1)
    • Prosperity Without Consumerism and Education Without Career Calculation (1)
    • Prozac Liberalism in U.S. (1)
    • Psychological Roots of Political and Financial Misbehvior (1)
    • Psychology of Political, Military and Economic Blunders (1)
    • Psychopaths Aren’t So Clever After All (1)
    • Rich Conquerors and Their (Poor) Servants and Bodyguards (1)
    • Rottweilers of Lord Bankfein (1)
    • Salivating Lickers of Coins (1)
    • Scientific Research Becomes Incompatible With The Predatory Mind Of Conservatism And Neo-Conservatism (1)
    • Setting Discord Between Groups and Populations (1)
    • Shift from “Communism” to “Democracy” in Russia (1)
    • Sissy Heroism or the Logic of an Abused Child (1)
    • Socio-political Dreams In Relation To Socio-political Realities (The Russian Communist Future And Totalitarian Present, German Aryan Superiority and The Third Reich,…) (1)
    • Socio-Psychological Essence of the Emotion of Hate (1)
    • Some Psychological Reasons For GOP’s Victory In Midterm Congressional Elections (1)
    • Stalin’s Political Ordeals (1)
    • Star Trek (1)
    • Symbolism Of Torture (1)
    • The Builders Of American Dystopia – Political Apparatchiks Of Neo-Conservative Cause (1)
    • The Destiny Of Soul’s Thinking In The 21st Century’ (1)
    • The Difference Between a Democratic and a Conservative Sensibility (1)
    • The God’s Humor (1)
    • The Magic Helpers (1)
    • The Moment That Could Change the History (1)
    • The Neck generation of American Leadership (1)
    • The One Who Cried When He Watched James Bond Movie(s) (1)
    • The Planetary Royalty of 21st Century (1)
    • The Political Dance Of A “One-sided Compromise” With A Despotic Money-power – President Obama Faces Future Of A Possible Impeachment (1)
    • The Poor People’s Paradise, the Rich’s Hell – Relaxed Existence VS. Over-calculation (1)
    • The Psychology of Human Immanent Fear, Sometimes to the Degree of Semi-unconscious Panic (1)
    • The Psychology of Pet Owning (1)
    • The Ultimate Question Is Not Economic Efficiency, Profit-making Strategies (1)
    • The Various Degrees of Intellectual Qualification and Judicial Objectivity in the Participants in President’s Impeachment Hearing (1)
    • There are Two Types of People (1)
    • There is No Place for Wishful Thinking (1)
    • This Sweet Propaganda (1)
    • Those Who Sold American Democracy to their Own Pockets (1)
    • Three Causes Of American Addiction To Weapons (1)
    • Three Historical Betrayals (1)
    • To Survive in Order To Live VS. Live Just to Survive (1)
    • To those Who are Trapped Iin Mass-cultural Satisfactions (1)
    • Today’s Political Conservatism in U.S. (1)
    • Two Types Of Human Blunders – One Made By Our Very Humanity And The Other By Our Reliance On Our Instrumental Reasoning (1)
    • Unconscious Lying (1)
    • Unconscious Need for Appropriation/Possession, for Hate/Fight/Wars, for Victories and Domination (1)
    • Victor Brauner’s “Symbolic Mutation I” – Socio-psychological Typology of Human Beings (1)
    • Virus Which Is Killing the Economy (1)
    • Vitalizing Addiction to Hate and to Fight (1)
    • Werner Herzog, A German Film Director And Screenwriter*, To America: (1)
    • What Communist party was for the Soviet (Totalitarian) Government, Corporations are for (Neo-conservative) American Government (1)
    • What Is the American Equivalent of What Communist Party Was for The Soviet Union? (1)
    • When Infantilization of Human Psyche… (1)
    • Why Americans with Conservative Sensibility vote against Their Own Interests and are Addicted to Hate-Talk Shows? (1)
    • Why Conservative Revolution In US Took Place Right After Soviet “Collapse”? (1)
    • Why is there no book Burning in U.S.? (1)
    • Why It‘s So Easy to Lie About the Necessity and the Urgency of Wars (1)
    • Why Most Heroes of Hollywood Productions And TV Serials Are “Charismatic Everybodies” (1)
    • Why the Neo-Republicans Are So Passionate And Democrats So “Cowardly” As Political Fighters (1)
    • Why Uneducated People Love to be Fists, Muscles… (1)
    • Worshippers of Wealth (1)
    • Young Males on the Bottom of the Social Pyramid (1)
    • Youth-abuse (1)
  • The Grand Slope (1)
  • Theatrical productions analyzed (1)
    • Robert Wilson (1)
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