Posts By Ivan Maksimovic
How important is music to film? The American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences would say important enough to merit an Oscar each year since 1935, not only for an original score, but an original song as well. Most prestigious film festivals give awards to composers and musicians thereby acknowledging their work as a creative and invaluable contribution to… Read more »
The birth of cinema was a natural consequence of the era of hedonistic prosperity that arose in the Western countries at the end of the XIX century. In may have been called the Gilded Age in the United States, or Belle Époque in Western Europe, but it was present on both sides of the Atlantic, and both sides have their… Read more »
Ever since Thomas More coined the term “utopia” in 1516, in order to name an imaginary island community in his treatise, it became associated with every literary attempt at envisioning a society which is profoundly different in one or more aspects from our own. However, given the fact that More imagined his Utopia as a generally favorable place to live,… Read more »
Greatest changes to a society come after wars. In all honesty, wars themselves are rarely cause for change, serving merely as a catalyst for it, by shaking the society’s structure to its core and weakening it, making it susceptible to the impending forces. Did the British society really change after the Second World War? The upper classes would certainly say… Read more »
From authentic 50s diners to renaissance fairs, it seems that wherever we turn, someone is cashing in on the notion that the past is something to be experienced again. To do so, one must make the past attractive, or at least highlight its more alluring aspects. Still, what works for some, doesn’t work for all: not everyone would let a… Read more »
