{"id":1222,"date":"2010-03-26T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/26\/food-desert-mansions\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T19:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:27:05","slug":"food-desert-mansions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/26\/food-desert-mansions\/","title":{"rendered":"food &amp; desert mansions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(great scenes, part 4)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rxpfO90mg8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A propos the <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2010\/03\/mugu_declaration.html\">previous post<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This may be one of Antonioni&#8217;s worst, or at least most dated, films, but the climactic scene is certainly memorable, especially if you know Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Careful with that axe, Eugene&#8221; (though, honestly, once the screaming starts, the music feels pretty dated too). It&#8217;s a Deleuzian time-image if I&#8217;ve ever seen one. (Non-vegetarians might wish to fast-forward to about 3&#8217;20&#8221; to get to the meat of it.)<\/p>\n<p>Visiting the point itself in Death Valley several years ago &#8212; during one of those springs when it was blooming like it very rarely does &#8212; made me realize that both the mansion and the movie are a little out of place at the real Zabriskie Point.<\/p>\n<p>But the slowly exploding food does resonate with latter-day <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2009\/06\/will_the_21st_century_be_foucauldianpollanian.html\">food politics<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(great scenes, part 4) A propos the previous post&#8230; This may be one of Antonioni&#8217;s worst, or at least most dated, films, but the climactic scene is certainly memorable, especially if you know Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Careful with that axe, Eugene&#8221; (though, honestly, once the screaming starts, the music feels pretty dated too). It&#8217;s a Deleuzian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688745,689701],"tags":[5701,16847],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema_zone","category-media_ecology","tag-food","tag-great-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-jI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1217,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/14\/two-or-three-scenes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1222,"position":0},"title":"two or three scenes&#8230;","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"How \u00e0 propos: Today's Guardian's piece on The Greatest Film Scenes Ever Shot. What are your favorite scenes, your most indelibly etched screen memories, those \"tiny pieces of time\" as the article quotes James Stewart saying, that have remained with you ever since seeing them? (The comments open things up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/e4LWwhFJoUw\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1220,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/22\/more-great-scenes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1222,"position":1},"title":"more great scenes","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6pOXjQLh7Y&hl=en_US&fs=1& From Bande a Part. (Thanks to Annette for suggesting it.) Or these two from Blow Up: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zeza1xeWKM&hl=en_US&fs=1& But I distinctly remember someone else coming along and kicking what was left of Jeff Beck's guitar neck right after this. Am I misremembering? 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