[HN Gopher] On the Wire Above the Ruins: Funambulism in Postwar ...
___________________________________________________________________
On the Wire Above the Ruins: Funambulism in Postwar Germany
Author : lermontov
Score : 13 points
Date : 2021-03-30 07:58 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.cabinetmagazine.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.cabinetmagazine.org)
| ggm wrote:
| What people need is Maslow. What they want is cigarettes, sex,
| and to watch people who might die doing tricks for cheap laughs.
| People did things for entertainment to forget the horrors of war,
| and to earn a crust.
|
| "Rome, open city" and "Les Enfants du Paradis" come to mind. The
| article mentions Rosselini who made "Germany year zero" as well.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2021-03-31 23:01 UTC)