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Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist?
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Click Here to Read: Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? As the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death approaches, Lois Banner argues in this extract from her new book that the star – complex and powerful – had many qualities associated with the women’s movement by Lois Banner on the guardian.co.uk website on July 21, 2012 .

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

John Huston’s Let There Be Light
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Click Here to View: John Huston’s World War II documentary Let There Be Light on the National Film Preservation Foundation website. 

This film is legendary for its censorship controversy that its sheer power as a film has been easy to miss. Produced by the U.S. Army in 1945, it pioneered unscripted interview techniques to take an unprecedented look into the psychological wounds of war. However, by the time the film was first allowed a public screening—in December 1980—its remarkable innovations in style and subject, which in the 1940s were at least a decade ahead of their time, could be taken as old hat, especially because of the poor quality of then-available prints. This new restoration finally reveals the film’s full force.