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Articles Written by: ELBERT VENTURA
If American independent cinema could be said to have a birthday, Nov. 11 is as good a date to celebrate as any. On that night 50 years ago, John Cassavetes, an actor then best known for his TV roles, unveiled for a downtown New York audience his ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Slate,
11 Nov 2009
Rian Johnson's caper comedy The Brothers Bloom begins its nationwide rollout already burdened with a reputation as an imitation of an American original. If Johnson's terrific debut, Brick, crackled with the borrowed brio of the Coen brothers, early ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Slate,
21 May 2009
For decades, the word "liberal" has been one of the most effective attacks in American politics. Republicans fling it at opponents with gusto; Democrats run away from it in fear.
It was not always thus. In 1952, President Dwight Eisenhower said, "To ...
In the shadow of Shea Stadium, a street urchin ekes out a living doing odd jobs at an auto-body shop. Further north, a dollar-store worker resorts to smuggling immigrants across the U.S.-Canada border to supplement her income. In the Mississippi Delta, ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Eyebeam reBlog,
30 Jan 2009
A study in the July 2008 issue of The Journal of Politics tackles that very issue. In "Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?" authors R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall and Morgan H. Llewellyn use survey data to investigate the issue of ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Miller-McCune,
29 Oct 2008
Click here for a video slide show on Bush at the movies.
Oliver Stone's W. is that rarest of spectacles: a fiction film depicting a sitting president. By one count, there had been only two movies depicting a current head of state before Bush came to ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Slate,
16 Oct 2008
Perhaps puffing up one’s self is a natural reaction in a city like this. The thing with DC — humid, ugly DC — is that nobody chooses to live here. The people who move here do so for specific reasons: a job, an internship, law school. Living here is ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
PopMatters,
24 Sep 2008
Is there a less spontaneous creature than the contemporary politician? Surrounded by banks of TV cameras, candidates have been trained to stay on script, follow stage directions, and play it safe, lest YouTube claim another scalp. The race itself may ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Slate,
5 Aug 2008
Scenes from the local evening news: a shrill breaking-news report from the scene of the crime; a fear-mongering story about the latest health or consumer scare; perhaps a news-you-can-use featurette that is neither newsy nor useful. For years, local ...
From ELBERT VENTURA,
Miller-McCune,
2 Jul 2008
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson defeated the Republican Barry Goldwater in one of the biggest routs in U.S. history, winning 61 percent of the popular vote and 44 out of 50 states. In 1972, President Richard Nixon won re-election over the Democrat ...
