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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

677 Warner's poster is organized around an A for Alex. The tip of that A features a phallic knife in the hands of the "delinquent" Alex (Malcolm McDowell). Inside the open "legs" of the A is the "Milk Bar" figure, a naked woman in a submissive position also with her legs spread. The piercing knife above thrusts in the same direction, although artfully, not literally into the open inverted V[agina]. Lest this reading seem too sexually violent, the film's plot-generating scene in Act I is the graphic gang rape of Mrs. Alexander (Adrienne Corri)--her only role in the film because in the plot Mrs. Alexander commits suicide after this trauma. Publicity Poster. Fair use claim for critical study with scaled-down copy. Image embedded from wikimedia.

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1. A TRIP THRU A HOLLYWOOD STUDIO
2. A U.S. Army Air Force North American B-25C Mitchell bomber (s/n 41-12823) in flight near Inglewood, California (USA), October 1942
3. A U.S. Air Force Convair F-106A-105-CO Delta Dart aircraft firing a Hughes air-to-air AIM-4 Falcon missile. Hughes Aircraft's heat-seeking air-to-air guided missile. In this night-sky photo, A U.S. Air Force Convair F-106A-105-CO Delta Dart aircraft (s/n 59-0027) from the 119th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 177th Fighter Interceptor Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, firing a Hughes AIM-4 Falcon missile during the air-to-air weapons meet "William Tell '84" in October 1984. Photo by TSgt. Ernest Sealing, USAF. Source: U.S. Department of Defense.
4. Aerial view of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum looking north from Olympic Park between Vermont Avenue and Hoover Street, February 12, 1932 [Large]
5. A Princess of Mars, 1917
6. A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s
7. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Warner's poster is organized around an A for Alex. The tip of that A features a phallic knife in the hands of the "delinquent" Alex (Malcolm McDowell). Inside the open "legs" of the A is the "Milk Bar" figure, a naked woman in a submissive position also with her legs spread. The piercing knife above thrusts in the same direction, although artfully, not literally into the open inverted V[agina]. Lest this reading seem too sexually violent, the film's plot-generating scene in Act I is the graphic gang rape of Mrs. Alexander (Adrienne Corri)--her only role in the film because in the plot Mrs. Alexander commits suicide after this trauma. Publicity Poster. Fair use claim for critical study with scaled-down copy. Image embedded from wikimedia.

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1. Richard 37th, Act III: Thermidor, 1968-1974
2. Race, Space, Violence, and Voting: 1964, 1978, 1994
3. Good Times, 1974-1979
4. The Jeffersons, 1975-1985
5. Richard 37th, Act IV: Ronald the Great, 1975-1994
6. All in the Family, 1971-1979
7. New Art Spaces after Watts and the Blowouts: Samella Lewis and ASCO, 1965-1978
8. Phase II: Defiance, Resistance to Police Violence, and Ghetto Pride, 1971-1980s
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Warner's poster is organized around an A for Alex. The tip of that A features a phallic knife in the hands of the "delinquent" Alex (Malcolm McDowell). Inside the open "legs" of the A is the "Milk Bar" figure, a naked woman in a submissive position also with her legs spread. The piercing knife above thrusts in the same direction, although artfully, not literally into the open inverted V[agina]. Lest this reading seem too sexually violent, the film's plot-generating scene in Act I is the graphic gang rape of Mrs. Alexander (Adrienne Corri)--her only role in the film because in the plot Mrs. Alexander commits suicide after this trauma. Publicity Poster. Fair use claim for critical study with scaled-down copy. Image embedded from wikimedia.
10. Race-Ethnic Majorities by Census Tract, 1970, Showing Pico-Whittier and Lakewood-Rosemead Transections
11. Life of Nixon, Richard 37th
12. Sanford and Son, 1972-1977
13. Photography's Ironic Arrival as Fine Art: Ed Ruscha and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1970
14. "Black Bag Operations," White House Tapes, 21 March 1973
15. Nixon on Busing, 1972
16. Brady Bunch (ABC, 1969-1974)
17. Julia , 1968-1971
18. Life of Nixon Life of Nixon, Photomontage by Phil Ethington (2010) TOP ROW: Nixon family home, Yorba Linda, California (Nixon Birthplace and Library). Furniture and artifacts from Nixon family since Richard M. Nixon's childhood. SECOND ROW: Nixon, "Checkers Speech" 1952, Frame Still of kinetescope of broadcast; Nixon's resignation speech 8 August 1974, suburban family living room with Sears color television set. Live photo on 35mm Tri-X Pan negative; BOTTOM ROW: Nixon family kitchen sink, fawcett not leaking, at sunset, 2002.; The Watergate, also called Traitor's Gate, Tower of London, 2003. All photos except Checkers Speech frame still by Phil Ethington, 1974-2004.
19. The Contradictory Mayoralty of Tom Bradley in the Age of Reagan, 1973-1993
20. Cancer On the Presidency, 21 March 1973 White House Tapes, Nixon Libray. "Cancer on the Presidency" Conversation Date: Wednesday, March 21, 1973 between 10:12am and 11:55am Conversation Number: 886-6 Cassette Number / Minutes: E - 7 – E - 9 (1 hour 23 minutes) Location: White House Oval Office Exhibit Number: Exhibit 12 – U.S. v John N. Mitchell, et al. Exhibit 12 continues onto Reference Cassette Numbers E - 8 and E - 9 Abstract: Dean recaps the history of the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up for the President. They guess at who was responsible for setting the break-in in motion. Dean tells the President that the cover-up is "a cancer on the Presidency" that must be excised or his Presidency would be in danger. Also discussed: references to blackmail, perjury; discussion of paying the burglars off with one million dollars. Participants: President Nixon H.R.Haldeman John W. Dean III This conversation segment was released in context as part of the: Watergate Trial Conversations Transcripts
21. Philip Ahn as Master Kan from television series Kung Fu (n.d, publicity photo, circa 1972-1975)
22. Bradbury Building (George Wyman, 1893), by Julius Shulman The Bradbury Building (George Wyman, 1893), photographed in infra-red film by Julius Shulman (1970). Standing on George Wyman's exquisite wrought-iron stairways, on the occasion of a recently-completed 1991 restoration effort by then-owner Ira Yellin, Julius Shulman observed to LA Times architecture critic Suzanne Muchnik that Wyman played with light as though with sound: "Visual Acoustics." Conversation with author, 2003.
23. The LA and New York Cinematic Rebellions, 1970s-1990s
24. Note: Reeves 2001; White House Tapes, 1971
25. The Ed Sullivan Show, 1948-1971
26. "This Film is Dedicated..." Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
27. John Amos interviewed about role as James Evans in Good Times (1974-6)
28. ASCO, "Spray Paint LACMA," with Patssi Valdez (1972)
29. "Black Bag Operations" The Dean-Nixon Cancer converstation, 21 March 1973
30. Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, and the Artistic Apotheosis of the New Hollywood, 1971-1980
31. J. Paul Getty Interviewed by David Frost in Great Hall of Sutton Place, Televised Interview, 1970. Photograph by Julius Shulman.
32. Race-Ethnic Majority Map, Los Angeles County, 1970
33. Dirty Harry (Warner Bros. 1971) Warner's iconic poster stars Dirty Harry's limb-ripping .44 Magnum, a weapon far too powerful for police work. Like the comparably-powerful 1911 Colt .45 automatic that U.S. Army officers wore as sidearms in both World Wars, the .44 Magnum can rip a man's arm off. Police handguns, like the classic "Service Revolver," use the deadly but not necessarily maiming 38 caliber bullets. This Big Gun, like Freud's Cigar, is an obvious Big Dick, accentuated in the poster by the from-below POV, as though the .44 is Eastwood's phallus. Publicity Poster. Fair use claim for critical study with scaled-down copy. Image embedded from wikimedia.
34. The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) Embedded URL from Wikimedia, which cites fair use rights as follows.: "This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration...qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. " The author of Ghost Metropolis claims this same right, but only displays a publication by wikimedia here.
35. Conceptualism and the the CalArts Mafia, 1971-1980
36. Life of Nixon, Captions
37. Richard Nixon Press Conference 3/24/1972 Nixon press conference on March 24, 1972. The press conference opens with a question about the suspension of Paris Peace talks to end the Vietnam War. Nixon maintains that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are not serious in negiotiations and using them for propaganda purposes. Other topics discussed include desegregation, the ITT scandal and inflation. From the Nixon Presidential holdings at the National Archives, identifier P-720312. Notes 00:46 Suspension of the Paris Peace talks with North Vietnam 02:23 ITT scandal 04:20 Proper contact between White House and ongoing legal matters before Federal agencies 05:40 "The War on Inflation" 09:50 Political influence of large campaign contributions. Nixon adds at length and unprompted that ITT has had no influence on his administration. 12:31 Desegregation, a return by Nixon to "seperate but equal"? 20:01 ITT 20:16 Primary elections 21:41 Assess military situation in Vietnam 23:45 Desegregation 25:03 Division of power in the world 26:38 Peace with Castro 26:53 Marijuana 27:44 Upcoming trip to Canada, trade, cleanup Great Lakes 29:05 Trip to China 30:09 Confidence in Ambassador Watson 31:15 George Meaney 33:34 Agnew on ticket 34:00 Arms talks with Soviet Union, SALT
38. The Fall of American Censorship, 1953-1973
39. Diff’rent Strokes, 1978-1986
40. Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States
41. Suzanne Jackson, "Sundown" (1974)
42. Thelma and Louise (1991) Sexual Assault Scene Thelma and Louise (1991), scene in which Harlan Puckett (Timothy Carhart) attempts to rape Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), ending with Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) killing Puckett. 1 min 33 sec clip. Written as a feminist counter-attack on rape cinema by the screenwriter Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri, this scene marks the most important turning-point for Hollywood cinema's gender relations. That it took until 1991 to tell the truth about violent sexual assault, replace the male protector with a big sister who pulls a Dirty Harry by killing the man in cold blood after the immediate danger had been de-escalated. Louise (Susan Sarandon) kills Harlan (Timothy Carhart) for his insulting taunts after the confrontation was over, making the scene heavily colored by "payback" for women all over the world. In the portrayal, Harlan really seems to "deserve" being killed at that moment. The attempted rape is frighteningly violent, and Louise's speech to Harlan before killing him, included here, is a complete refutation of Clint Eastwood's rapist fantasy in High Plains Drifter (1973), in which the victim relaxes and enjoys the attack as real sex. Khouri won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for Film (the film's only Oscar, but it won a total of six nominations). So the Industry itself honored not only a great screenplay but a feminist revision of scores of Hollywood myths and codes. This anti-rape scene is not alone in the film as a feminist rebuke. Thelma and Louise also blow-up a fuel tank truck because the driver had been catcalling them.
43. Dirty Harry (1971) District Attorney Scene
44. Race-Ethnic Bar Charts, Central Los Angeles , 1970 by Census Tracts
45. Edward Ruscha, The Back of Hollywood, 1977
46. Population Size and Race-Ethnic Proportions, 1970: Central Los Angeles by Census Tracts
47. Enter The Dragon (1973)
48. "Starring The Black Community," Title Credits, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
49. Nixon at Hungarian Border, 1956, by Ferenc Daday, 1971
50. Deep Throat (1972)
51. Tom and Ethel Bradley at Southwestern's First Annual Tom Bradley Scholarship Fund Dinner in 1978
52. "Starring The Black Community," Title Credits, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
53. Race-Ethnic Majority Map, Los Angeles County, 1970, With August 1965 Qaurantine Area
54. Fraser 1979
55. Suzanne Jackson Sundown 1974
56. Resignation of Richard Nixon, Sears Color Television Set, Suburban Family Room, 8 August 1974
57. "The most troublesome post-thing," White House Tapes, 21 March 1973
58. Note on Rape Scene in High Plains Drifter (1973)
59. Race-Ethnic Bar Charts by Census 1970 Central LA
60. Sanford and Son, Frame Still 1972
61. Note: Nixon White House Tapes 1972
62. "You can get a million dollars..." White House Tapes, 21 March 1973
63. Ahn Chang-ho, Philip Ahn, Susan Ahn Cuddy, 1905-1975
64. Brady Bunch (ABC, 1969-1974)
65. Transcript of "Cancer on the Presidency" Tape, 21 March 1971. Nixon Library, Yorba Linda. "Cancer on the Presidency" Conversation Date: Wednesday, March 21, 1973 between 10:12am and 11:55am Conversation Number: 886-6 Cassette Number / Minutes: E - 7 – E - 9 (1 hour 23 minutes) | Adobe Acrobat PDFTranscript | Listen Location: White House Oval Office Exhibit Number: Exhibit 12 – U.S. v John N. Mitchell, et al. Exhibit 12 continues onto Reference Cassette Numbers E - 8 and E - 9 Abstract: Dean recaps the history of the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up for the President. They guess at who was responsible for setting the break-in in motion. Dean tells the President that the cover-up is "a cancer on the Presidency" that must be excised or his Presidency would be in danger. Also discussed: references to blackmail, perjury; discussion of paying the burglars off with one million dollars. Participants: President Nixon H.R.Haldeman John W. Dean III This conversation segment was released in context as part of the: Watergate Trial Conversations Transcripts
66. Table 5.1: Explaining the Vote for Proposition 13 -- Property Tax Limitation, 1978
67. Robinson 1975
68. Vote for Proposition 13 (Property Tax Limitation), 1978. Above (red) and Below (blue) Median (white).
69. "Moratorium" (1973), by Willie Herron and Gronk Estrada Courts Housing Community, Olympic Blvd between Orme Ave and Lorena St
70. Title, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
71. Plagens (1974): 21.
72. Hollywood Sign, c 1977
73. "Nixon Praises Troops: Contrasts with 'Bums' Blowing up Campuses"
74. Behind the Green Door (1972)
75. Women in Design Conference Poster by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (1975)
76. Race-Ethnic Bar Charts by Census Tracts, Central LA, 1970
77. The Art of Feminism and Women of the LA Avant Garde, circa 1975
78. McCoy (1979)
79. "Nixon Praises Troops: Contrasts with 'Bums' Blowing up Campuses"
80. High Plains Drifter (1973)
81. L.A. Rebellion | Medea (1973)
82. ASCO, "First Supper (After a Major Riot)," 1973
83. Gebhard and Winter (1977)
84. Patton (1970)
85. Wattstax 1972 Full Documentary