#Victor Navasky

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Victor Navasky Explores the Power of Political Cartoons

Columbia University

Victor Navasky, award-winning author and editor of the Nation, dies at 90

Martin Pengelly in The Guardian obituary for Navasky quotes Christopher Hitchens, "His core is quite hardline, very tenderly presented." That's such a good sentence and a reminder that as much as Hitchens irked me, I appreciated his writing a lot. The work of editors for the most part isn't public. Navasky work with some of the best writers and journalists over a long career. He made a big difference.

Victor S. Navasky

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More than a decade ago, when we published ''The Experts Speak,'' Christopher Cerf and I did not claim that the experts were always wrong in predicting the future. It was just that in our work we had never uncovered any accurate predictions. However, our critics have argued persuasively (we are nothing if not humble) that some prognosticators are right as much as half the time. Hence our conclusion: Prediction is at best an unpredictable business.

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#47 of The 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time 

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The Terminal

The Terminal The overall storyline:

The protagonist of the story is Victor Navasky (played by Tom Hanks), a traveler from the Eastern European country of Krakozia. However, when he arrived in the United States, there was a coup in his country and the United States no longer recognized his passport. Without valid documentation, he was detained in the international terminal at JFK Airport, unable to enter the United States or return to his home country.

Due to political reasons, Victor was trapped at the airport and became a stateless man. He had to live at the airport. He forms relationships with airport staff and other travelers, using his ingenuity and resourcefulness to adapt to this unfamiliar environment. At the airport, he gets to know the staff, security personnel and regular passengers, while also developing a special relationship with a flight attendant (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones).

Throughout the process he found his own way to connect with those around him, solve problems, and ultimately impact everyone at the airport. The film shows Victor's days at the airport in a humorous way, while also revealing the warmth of human nature and its response to difficult situations.

Analysis of the opening scene of "The Terminal":

Upon landing in the United States, he was informed that his country had undergone a coup and his passport was no longer valid. This sudden problem quickly throws the normal journey into a complicated dilemma, creating a dramatic opening.

The emotional investment of the audience makes the audience worried about his fate and want to know how he will deal with this unexpected dilemma.

The audience is led into the international terminal of JFK International Airport. The busyness and emptiness of this environment contrast with Victor's predicament, making his sense of isolation more prominent.

Through interactions with airport staff, security personnel and other passengers, the audience had a preliminary understanding of some important characters at the beginning. This foreshadows character development and relationships in subsequent stories.

Identify the key locations and environments in the opening scene:

International Terminal Hall: The main location of the opening scene is the international terminal hall. There are a large number of passengers, staff and security personnel in the hall, forming a busy and diverse crowd. This lobby reflects the hustle and bustle of the airport and provides a unique backdrop for the subsequent story developments.

Check-in counters and security areas: Victor interacts with staff and security personnel in the opening scene at the airport. These interactions occur at the check-in counters and security areas. These places mabe become key locations in the story where events occur and plot unfolds.

What to me is the most memorable part of the opening scene?

Close-up shots of Viktor's reactions, such as his shock and disbelief, allow the audience to connect with his emotional state.

The use of music, lighting, and the overall atmosphere of the airport adds to the emotional impact.

effective framing and camera angles to highlight the isolation and vulnerability.

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Antonio Velardo shares: Notable Deaths 2023: Books by Unknown Author

By Unknown Author Remembering Cormac McCarthy, Milan Kundera, Louise Glück, Robert Gottlieb, Martin Amis, Kenzaburo Oe, A.S. Byatt, Russell Banks, Victor S. Navasky, Anne Perry, Jonathan Raban, Charles Simic and many others who died in 2023. Published: December 18, 2023 at 11:37AM from NYT Obituaries https://ift.tt/lB7rf3S via IFTTT

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New story on NPR: Remembering Victor Navasky, longtime editor and publisher of 'The Nation' https://ift.tt/z9ClMWF

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Victor Navasky Recognized the Power of Cartooning#Victor #Navasky #Recognized #Power #Cartooning

Victor Navasky. (Leo Sorel) EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspThis article originally appeared in Hazlitt on April 12, 2013, with the headline “Hitler’s Cartoon Problem and the Art of Controversy.”  Although Adolf Hitler was a master of propaganda, he was continually flummoxed by one particular form of communication: the editorial cartoon. Perhaps because the Nazi leader had a high opinion of himself, he…

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Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023#Victor #Navasky #Avatar #American #Left

Victor Navasky in 1962. (Ben Martin / AP) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or…

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I think it was Walter Cronkite who used to end his nightly newscasts by saying, ‘That’s the way it is.’ Well, I wanted to put out a magazine which would say: ‘That’s not the way it is at all. Let’s take another look’

Victor S. Navasky, director (1978-1995) i editor (1995-2005) de The Nation, la revista progre estatunidenca de referència. +23.01.2023

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I found this on NewsBreak: Victor Navasky, historian and Nation editor, dies at 90

I found this on NewsBreak: Victor Navasky, historian and Nation editor, dies at 90

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Bombshell (2019) by Jay Roach

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Kennedy Justice (1971) by Victor Saul Navasky

The Statue of Liberty: The Monumental Dream (2019) by Robert Belot and Statue of Liberty Foundation

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (1970) by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard 

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Although Adolph Hitler was a master of propaganda, he was continually flummoxed by one particular form of communication: the editorial cartoon. Perhaps because the Nazi leader had a high opinion of himself, he couldn’t stand to be caricatured. The very sight of an inky mockery of his goose-stepping gait and toothbrush moustache drove Hitler into a spittling, almost frothy, spasm of rage.

As Victor Navasky notes in his new book, The Art of Controversy, the New Zealand–born cartoonist David Low, whose political art appeared in England’s Evening Standard, was especially gifted at targeting the dictator’s most tender psyche spots. Low’s specialized in drawings that literally belittled the der Führer, showing him not as a fearsome tyrant but as a bratty child or small-statured screwball. Low famously dealt with the Hitler-Stalin alliance of 1939 by depicting the two totalitarian leaders bowing to each other with exaggerated courtesy while a corpse lies between them. The murderousness of Hitler and Stalin is acknowledged in the drawing but what gets highlighted is the ridiculous spectacle of two former and future foes greeting each other with the daintiness of prospective dance partners.

Low’s strategy of making Hitler silly rather than scary pinched a touchy nerve. When the English government was pursuing the policy of appeasement before the Second World War, they found that one of Germany’s demands was that Low stop making fun of Hitler. As Lord Halifax, a leading architect of the appeasement policy explained to the publisher of the Evening Standard, “You cannot imagine the frenzy these cartoons cause. As soon as a copy of the Evening Standard arrives, it is pounced on for Low’s cartoons, and if it is of Hitler, as it usually is, telephones buzz, tempers rise, fevers mount, and the whole governmental system of Germany is in an uproar.”

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Neil postman amusing ourselves to death

As a result, it is most commonly used in its most suitable manner, which shapes the media consumer in powerful ways. The point is not that technology is bad, but that technology is most effective if it is used in a particular manner. It would be easy to claim that Postman was merely clutching at pearls, if the evidence did not point overwhelmingly toward the aggravation of the problems he identifies. Thus, the endurance to learn and slog through difficult tasks has been diminished by the medium that is very effective in achieving short term gains. According to Postman, whatever good is done by teaching through entertainment is undermined as it forms the learning human to expect education to be exciting. Postman notes that Sesame Street is a prime example of this, though certainly neither the worst nor the only platform that does this. Instead of doing the long, hard work of training minds, much of our educational methodology has shifted to entertainment. Not only has news changed, but education has changed. Notably, it is much easier for me to find out about the personal lives of political leaders across the globe than to find out what the local city council is talking about. The change was not wrought overnight, but the shift of concern from local issues to global ones has completely overtaken us today. The telegraph sped up the spread of national and international news, so that information could be had within minutes rather than days or weeks. In other words, the facts of the news are the same (if written well), but the secondary signals created by the means that the news is transmitted also shape the reception of the news.įor example, Postman notes that prior to the invention of the telegraph, most newspapers focused almost exclusively on local news. He wrote more than twenty books.Postman’s clarification is helpful, since it separates the content of the message from vehicle that carries the message. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldĪbout the Author Neil Postman (1931-2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed." -Camille Paglia "A brilliant, powerful, and important book. "As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman's dark picture of our media-saturated future. "All I can say about Neil Postman's brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged." -Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons "I can't think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary - and yes, more entertaining - book about media culture." -Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "A brilliant, powerful, and important book. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media-from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs-it has taken on even greater significance. It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman." - CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. About the Book Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media-how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged.īook Synopsis What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.

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Victor Navasky, Who Saved “The Nation,” Tried to Save the World#Victor #Navasky #Saved #Nation #Save #World

Victor Navasky at the Atlantic Monthly State of the Union Dinner in New York City. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Getty) The first piece Victor Navasky published in The Nation ran under the byline “G. Mennen Williams”—not a pseudonym, but the name of the Michigan governor who had employed the newly minted Yale Law School graduate as a speechwriter. My own introduction to Victor came in 1979, after…

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The profile of controversial journalist George Seldes and a piercing examination of America's news media.  Narrated by Susan Sarandon, with readings of writings by Ed Asner, this Academy Award-nominated film includes stunning archival materials.