#mediumcool

[vintagecinemaart]

Medium Cool-A Rare Original Vintage Movie Poster of Haskell Wexler's Romantic Political Drama with Robert Forster and Verna Bloom #mediumcool #haskellwexler #robertforster #vernabloom #vintagecinemaart #movieposter #wallart #1960s https://etsy.me/3RTQ4b5 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoiFHXkOktN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[buckeyebeaute1980]

💄Ok now on to the base! Primer- @urbandecaycosmetics #opticalillusion Complexion primer Foundation- @nyxcosmetics #totalcontrol in the shade #light /Clair Contour- @ultabeauty #youthfulglow in the shade #mediumcool Bronzer- @toofaced #chocolategoldsoleil Blush- @loraccosmetics #bakedmattesatinblush @nyxcosmetics #blush in the shade #bitten Setting powder- @clinique #invisibleblend in the shade #20 Setting Spray- @morphebrushes × @jeffreestarcosmetics #setandrefresh #starberryscent Highlight- @nablacosmetics #skinglazing in the shade #amnesia (at Columbus, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAolTWzFlGP/?igshid=b08097b3ip5v

[technicolor-cinema-fire]

Robert Wallace Foster Jr. July 13, 1941 Rochester, New York, U.S. October 11, 2019 (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. #ReflectionsinaGoldenEye (1967) #TheStalkingMoon (1969) #MediumCool (1969) #TheDonisDead (1973) #Avalanche (1978) #TheBlackHole (1979) #Alligator (1980) #Vigilante aka Street Gang (1983) #TheDeltaForce (1986) #Satan’sPrincess (1990) #TwinPeaks (1990) TV #ManiacCopIIIBadgeofSilence (1993) #ScannersTheShowdown aka ScannersII (1995) #UncleSam (1996) #JackieBrown (1997) #Psycho (1998) #MulhollandDrive (2001) #TheHuntfortheBTKKiller (2005) #RiseBloodHunter (2007) TwinPeaks (2017) TV #ElCaminoABreakingBadMovie (2019) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hYF0aADXi/?igshid=8ax695gse0kj

[technicolor-cinema-fire]

Robert Wallace Foster Jr. July 13, 1941 Rochester, New York, U.S. October 11, 2019 (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. #ReflectionsinaGoldenEye (1967) #TheStalkingMoon (1969) #MediumCool (1969) #TheDonisDead (1973) #Avalanche (1978) #TheBlackHole (1979) #Alligator (1980) #Vigilante aka Street Gang (1983) #TheDeltaForce (1986) #Satan’sPrincess (1990) #TwinPeaks (1990) TV #ManiacCopIIIBadgeofSilence (1993) #ScannersTheShowdown aka ScannersII (1995) #UncleSam (1996) #JackieBrown (1997) #Psycho (1998) #MulhollandDrive (2001) #TheHuntfortheBTKKiller (2005) #RiseBloodHunter (2007) TwinPeaks (2017) TV #ElCaminoABreakingBadMovie (2019) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hYEb6ACqA/?igshid=5yzlj80muxxe

[technicolor-cinema-fire]

Robert Wallace Foster Jr. July 13, 1941 Rochester, New York, U.S. October 11, 2019 (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. #ReflectionsinaGoldenEye (1967) #TheStalkingMoon (1969) #MediumCool (1969) #TheDonisDead (1973) #Avalanche (1978) #TheBlackHole (1979) #Alligator (1980) #Vigilante aka Street Gang (1983) #TheDeltaForce (1986) #Satan’sPrincess (1990) #TwinPeaks (1990) TV #ManiacCopIIIBadgeofSilence (1993) #ScannersTheShowdown aka ScannersII (1995) #UncleSam (1996) #JackieBrown (1997) #Psycho (1998) #MulhollandDrive (2001) #TheHuntfortheBTKKiller (2005) #RiseBloodHunter (2007) TwinPeaks (2017) TV #ElCaminoABreakingBadMovie (2019) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hYC0igHXd/?igshid=1vj3r484wbme5

[john-mulligan]

. Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers . Film Club #94 . Medium Cool . #mediumcool #robertforster #alamodrafthouse #alamodrafthouseyonkers #alamodrafthousegreaterny #alamodrafthouseyonkersmulligan #alamoyonkersfilmclub @alamoyonkers (at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers) https://www.instagram.com/john_mulligan/p/Bv0fAN_lyQS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xua9buozswu8

[cityutopiadystopia]

Poking Fun at Objectivity

For my final paper, I am interested in exploring objectivity as seen by Haskell Wexler throughout Medium Cool as well as by David Buuck, in “The Alibi” section of SITE CITE CITY. By using a mixture of documentary as well as narrative footage and interweaving the narrative structure into real events, Wexler is drawing the viewer’s attention to the inherent bias within documentary filmmaking and furthermore television News.

By blurring the lines between what is reality and what is fiction, Wexler makes the audience question what part of our news is constructed and curated for our entertainment. One technique he uses to make the viewer be aware of this is through alienation. The viewer is never not aware that he or she is watching a film, just as a viewer should never be unaware that he or she is watching a documentary or TV News special that is curated and edited for a very specific agenda. Wexler identifies the problematic nature of the media both in their appeasing the government by giving up footage as well as their sensationalizing and glorifying violence for views. 

I would like to compare this to “The Alibi” selection of SITE CITE CITY because this is a section that claims to be documentarian and objective. I want to explore how even this simple tracking of a body through space is biased and completely non-objective. If I have time I also would like to argue that Wexler believes that fictional stories and narrative devices can tell the experiential truth of a situation better than sources that claim to be “objective.”  

Emma Maltby

[m10247]

Silly film project: Medium Cool edition. #criterion #bluray #haskellwexler #mediumcool #screenshot #12345 #iphone6 #gridlens