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Response: New Media in Art: CH3 160-179pgs

The artist, and filmmaker Steve Mcqueen video installation Five Easy Pieces, familiar male athletes from the spotlight to ordinary life "filling the empty spaces in the representation of the black male in contemporary media that nowhere zone between the glorified athlete, or pop start to a thug in the street) (171). Not much has changed from the late 1990s as a society we still glorify celebrities and when they mess up or show imperfections, no longer this perfect deity that can do no harm.

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