Auteur theory isn't about independendently minded artists with a personal vision.
It's about professionals working in a business delivering a product.
Forget about directors a second and think about a makeup artist. A professional working on films as assigned. Now, if you can look at a film and identify the makeup artist without looking at the credits, what you have is an auteur.
]]>The British Empire was on a far bigger scale both in time and space. Ruling for centuries over vast and populous territories it was bound to oppress, exploit and kill far more people than the Germans had any chance to.
Still, according to Wikipedia: 'The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered to have been the first genocide of the 20th century. It took place between 1904 and 1907 in German South-West Africa (modern day Namibia), during the Herero Wars.'
]]>Boy and girl scout movements were independent of the state which is why both fascist and communist regimes suppressed them. And also murdered boy and girl scout leaders.
]]>True Thomas, he pulled off his cap And bowed low down to his knee All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven For thy peer on earth I never did see
Oh no, oh no, Thomas, she said That name does not belong to me I am but the Queen of fair Elfland That am hither come to visit thee.
]]>Constant hunger doesn't figure in.
]]>So much is adapted, restored, renovated or rebuilt that it's difficult to be sure of the age of places you've drunk, eaten or slept in. But I would reckon back to 16th century. Certainly one of the first pubs I drank in claims 1530.
]]>We make take a lesson from these women, together with aristocrats and hunter-gatherers (males). What did Jane Austen do all day - apart from scribble, scribble? I've been taking a look at her collected letters and it's basically all social life. What we're built for. Work is new. Working clocktime even newer.
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