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Daniel Cookney, The Conversation

How Daft Punk became an example of anti-celebrity celebrity

The ‘Epilogue’ video message is then a fitting end, highlighting remoteness and attachment, anonymity and familiarity, and all delivered by self-destruction.

Daniel Cookney, The Conversation
· Feb 28, 2021 · 11:30 pm
The posters that inspired the May 1968 general strike that shook France

The movement produced an important visual language for protest that still resonates half a century later

Daniel Cookney, The Conversation
· May 15, 2018 · 08:30 pm
Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ uses music and dance to make a political statement

Donald Glover’s music video is multi-layered and aims to kick its audience out of its complacency.

Kirsty Fairclough, The Conversation
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Daniel Cookney, The Conversation
· May 12, 2018 · 09:30 pm