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  Stop Making Senses: Thoughts on the Formal Experimentations and Non-Talking Heads of Jacques Tati and David Byrne

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  Joshua Louis Moss California State University Chico

  February 16, 2021

  distancing by humanizing Byrne. From the moment the show begins, Byrne directly address the audience with ... beginning. The illusory honesty of entertainment maintains distancing signifiers. In American Utopia, Byrne ... American utopia fantasy that obfuscates, at least for a few hours, the reality of suburbia, mediocrity, and ...
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  "Why a Big Suit?" David Byrne's questions as constitutive rhetoric in the Trailers for "Stop Making Sense" and "American Utopia"

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  Nprephan West Chester University

  February 17, 2021

  questions with the beginning of the American Utopia  trailer. David Byrne, in a voiceover, asks the viewer, ...