... pop art movement had started, there was a newfound reverence for American art, and culture. The enthusiastic, and ironic, paintings of these artists chose to embrace what the German called Capitalist Realism. The artists chose to incorporate the mass media and this consumerism into their art, both celebrating it and critiquing it. These artists painted for the now, they didn't use an ... its usual setting. They highlighted not the commonplace in a painting, but the commonplace as a painting. Each artist in this movement had their own way to express their take on Capitalist Realism. One ...

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... , as a viewer we know whose film we are going to watch and how it's going to be from the start. Lee has used numerous experimental techniques in order to transfer realism to the big screen. On the Do the Right Thing film set, he purposely raised the temperature so that the actors would appear extremely hot and sweaty. He did this ... ...

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... shots of real world places in New York. They do nothing to build character, further plot, or even (after a while) establish setting. If anything, they serve to establish only the realism of the setting, without providing information relevant to understanding the story of the film. They also add to our comprehension of the film's style. "The montages screen like raw footage ... ...

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