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contrapuntal Music characterized by counterpoint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Her contrapuntal handling of sources endows the study with persuasiveness and immediacy, while rooting it firmly in a unique time and place. Newly released on DVD to coincide with Munch's current retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Edvard Munch (1973) is an essay with actors that has the form and tropes of a documentary film: direct address, contrapuntal voice-over, casual framing, verite zooms. In the imperial mode, contrapuntal reading means considering the facts of imperialism in a work with the realities of resistance, which are often elided. |
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