Genre: Documentary
Plot: American popular culture has always been characterized by acceptance and dissidence, innovation and co-optation. These tensions have sparked creativity while simultaneously undervaluing or undercutting it. Innovators are frequently forgotten or neglected, while those who merely packaged or whitewashed more vital and potentially subversive forms have made enormous amounts of money.Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann has devoted much of his career to recording an alternative account of pop culture, one that gives the true pioneers their due and exposes the political motivations behind the construction of history. From Imagine the Sound (a portrait of the free jazz movement) to Comic Book Confidential (a study of comic book artists) to Twist (which examined dance crazes), Mann has revised and invigorated the way we look at pop culture. His latest, Tales of the Rat Fink, examines the career of what may be his ultimate subject: designer and graphic artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. In Mann’s eyes, Roth is one of the first and most subversive DIY artists – a proto-culture jammer. Roth’s career, which began in the fifties, was driven by an instinctive urge to remake and remodel the products of mass culture to reflect his own sensibility – one vigorously opposed to the egregiously complacent,
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Ron Mann
Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Go Further |
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Ann-Margret
Any Given Sunday, The Break-Up, Grumpy Old Men |
 | Stone Cold
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows, WWE Wrestlemania XX, Wrestlemania X-Seven |
 | John Goodman
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Monsters, Inc. |
 | Jay Leno
Cars, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Space Cowboys |
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Olive, the Other Reindeer, Hair High, The Simpsons: America's First Family | |
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