December 2010
2 posts
"Shocking Blocking" from Capra to Cox
In his ongoing series called “Shocking Blocking”, Johsua Glenn considers the half-wall divider as an architecture element. In Frank Capra’s directorial hands, it is “used to signify a quasi-utopian chaotic goodness”. However, Alex Cox decodifies the same element, then recodifies it to “signify the end of any such open-plan idealism”, consonant with the...
Where Ideas Come From (according to TFD)
