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(born 1933) Susan Sontag is an American essayist, novelist, and film-maker known for her insightful analyses of contemporary culture. Born in New York City, her diverse accomplishments include a prolific literary career, a performance in Woody Allen’s Zelig (1983) and an uncompromising dedication to humanitarian concerns. She has written many highly original essay collections, short stories and novels, and has also written and directed films. Her essay collections include Against Interpretation (1966), About Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Under the Sign of Saturn (1980).
Her novels include The Volcano Lover: A Romance (1992).
Industry:Culture
(born 1934) A dancer from childhood onwards, Maclaine has also received acclaim as a female comedian and serious actor in four decades of Broadway and in movies. Her roles have ranged from hookers to First Ladies, sensual but vulnerable ingénues to formidable Southern matrons. After several nominations since the 1950s, she won an Oscar in 1983 for Terms of Endearment. A political activist in the 1960s, Maclaine has also become deeply associated with New Age mysticism and has written extensively on reincarnation.
Industry:Culture
(born 1934) Author, editor, feminist activist and cofounder of Ms. magazine. Deemed by some historians to be as important to the second wave of American feminism as Susan B. Anthony was to the first. Steinem began her career as a journalist. As a feminist, she organized protests, recruited supporters, raised money, founded new feminist pressure groups and made speeches on behalf of the women’s movement. She published numerous books, including: Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), a collection of articles previously printed in Ms.; a feminist interpretation of Marilyn Monroe’s life; and Revolution from Within (1992), a guide to enhancing self-esteem.
Industry:Culture
(born 1934) Citizen advocate against corporate America. Nader came to national attention with Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) which blamed automobile casualties on design rather than drivers and spurred federal safety legislation. Later campaigns by this austere Ivy League lawyer and his “Nader’s Raiders” have focused on food safety water pollution, environmental poisons and other issues of corporate negligence. Public Citizen (founded 1971) has inspired nationwide PIRGs (public-interest research groups), while the Center for the Study of Responsive Law maintains an active schedule of lobbying and information. Nader appeared on the presidential ballot for the Green Party in 1996 and 2000. Yet his chief work remains creating and informing the citizen consumer, thereby reforming the nation.
Industry:Culture
(born 1934) One of America’s most prominent leftist intellectuals and cultural critics. Most widely cited for his 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, which situated him as the leading theorist on postmodernism as a cultural condition and an aesthetic style undertaken by visual artists and writers. The term that Jameson used as being indicative of postmodernism was “pastiche.” Jameson teaches at Duke University and is an editor of the controversial journal Social Text. He has written fourteen influential books in literary film and cultural studies.
Industry:Culture
(born 1934) One of the most original African American poets, playwrights and cultural critics to emerge from the 1960s, as well as a leading political advocate of black cultural nationalism. Under his birth name, LeRoi Jones, he gained notoriety in 1964 when four of his plays were produced offBroadway in New York City, NY. His poems and plays constituted an eloquent assault on the racism in mainstream American society. Blues People (1963), a volume of essays focusing on African American music, had a profound impact on Black Studies, helping transform analysis of black cultural traditions during and after slavery. Since 1967 he has published under his African name, been a leading force behind the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary Indiana, and undertaken housing ventures in his hometown of Newark, NJ.
Industry:Culture
(born 1934) Postmodern architect and theorist. Identified as one of the New York Five (with Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, John Hejduk and Charles Gwathney), Graves has become known for his interweaving of colors, classical and figurative references and natural themes. Among his best-known works are the Portland Building and the Humana Headquarters (Louisville, KY). Graves, based at Princeton, has also extended his design in the classroom and through association with major corporations like Disney and Target, for whom he designed a housewares line.
Industry:Culture
(1934 – 1992) Outspoken African American lesbian feminist poet, memoirist and activist. Her published poetry includes The First Cities (1968), Coal (1976) and Our Dead Behind Us (1986). Among her other works, Cancer Journals (1980) depicts her experiences with breast cancer, while Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) is constructed as a biomythography. Among political speeches, she was also the author of Apartheid USA (1986).
Industry:Culture
(1934 – 1996) Planetary astronomer and public intellectual. Professor at Harvard and Cornell, Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for The Dragons of Eden, which explored human intelligence. While he became a host on the PBS series Nova, he also became a science “star” with his Cosmos series (PBS, 1980–1), whose vivid explanations of the universe attracted a global audience as well as frequent satires of his hyperbolic delivery. Sagan was also active in establishing exobiological studies and working with those interested in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligent life.
Industry:Culture
(born 1935) First female candidate for vice-president of the United States; former New York congressional representative and senatorial candidate. Her 1984 nomination to the Democratic Party’s ticket as candidate for vice-president signaled the emergence of the women’s movement as a force in mainstream politics, highlighted the power of women voters and the significance of the gender gap and redefined the possibilities for American women in politics. Although she was ultimately defeated, Ferraro’s presence on the ticket encouraged other aspiring female politicians to run for office and caused female voters to contribute more money than ever before to a candidate’s campaign.
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