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Every Saturday, "Cultural Weekly" summarizes and presents to you the major and minor events worth knowing about in the foreign literary and art circles, publishing industry, and bookstore industry in the past week. This week we are paying attention to the announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners, Disney’s announcement of adjustments to its superhero film production plans, and the artificial intelligence-generated Met Gala pictures that are “fake and real”.
01 The 108th Pulitzer Prize announced the winners list
On May 6, local time, the 108th Pulitzer Prize (the pulitzer prizes) was announced. The Pulitzer Prizes have 23 categories, 15 of which honor the best journalism of 2023, and eight focusing on arts categories such as books, music, and drama. Each winner will receive a $15,000 cash prize and certificate.
Writer Jayne Anne Phillips won this year's novel award for "Night Watch". "Night Watch" tells the story of a mother and daughter who seek refuge in the chaos after the war and work together. A story about overcoming the difficulties brought about by war, this book was also shortlisted for last year's National Book Award in the fiction category. Writer Li Yiyun's new work "Wednesday's Child", which discusses aging and death, published last year, and writer Ed Park's work " Same Bed Different Dreams " (Same Bed Different Dreams) were shortlisted for this year's Puley. Shortlist for the Novel Prize.
"The Night Watch"
The Biography Award was awarded to two works at the same time, namely "King: A Life" by writer Jonathan Eig and "King: a Life" by Ilyon Woo. Master slave husband wife: an epic journey from slavery to freedom. "The Life of King" depicts Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the American black civil rights movement, and the era in which he lived. It presents readers with a picture of the life of this civil rights leader at various stages, and dramatically demonstrates his life course. Wu's work takes readers back to 1848 and tells the story of the self-liberation journey of a young enslaved couple, Allen and William Craft, who disguised themselves as wealthy white men and traveled across the United States in pursuit of freedom.
won the nonfiction award for "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy" by Nathan Thrall ). This book tells the story of a Palestinian father who lost his five-year-old son in a school bus accident. A father's journey to find his son is intertwined with the stories of a group of Jews and Palestinians, providing readers with new perspectives on the conflict unfolding in the West Bank. John Vaillant, the writer who won the Baillie Gifford Award last year for "Fire Weather: a true story from a hotter world" It was also shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
"A Day in the Life of Abid Salama: Analyzing the Tragedy of Jerusalem"
This year's Pulitzer Prize also awarded two special awards, one to the late writer and cultural critic Greg Tate ( Greg Tate), and the other was awarded to journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip in recognition of the courage of media workers. Marjorie Miller, administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, said: "In the horrific war, scores of journalists have died covering the stories of Palestinians and aid workers in Gaza, and the war has also claimed the lives of many poets and The life of a writer, "We award the Pulitzer Prize to them to commemorate the disappearance of precious human experience."
02 Super British aesthetic fatigue, Disney plans to cut the Marvel series of movies
Disney CEO Bob Iger (bob iger) recently stated that the company will produce fewer movies related to the Marvel Universe (Marvel) and "focus more on quality." In recent years, in order to compete with Netflix in the streaming media business, Disney has paid a very expensive price, including the addition of Super The release of the Heroes film series.
It is reported that Disney plans to adjust the arrangement of producing four Marvel movies a year to "up to three" per year, and the number of spin-off TV series produced per year will also be changed from the previous four to two per year. This move is considered to be an adjustment made due to the public's aesthetic fatigue towards superhero movies in recent years.
Despite the poor box office performance of Disney's films over the past year, Iger said that in his opinion, Disney's upcoming slate of movies is "great." He believes that Disney has a great advantage in IP and is satisfied with the balance the company maintains between producing original movies and movie sequels. He noted that "sequels are extremely valuable" because they are part of a known series and have relatively low marketing costs. In the next few months, Disney will release a series of IP sequels, including Pixar's "Inside Out 2" (Inside Out 2), "Moana 2" (Moana 2) and Marvel's " "Deadpool & Wolverine" (Deadpool & Wolverine), etc. - all to ensure that Disney maintains a competitive advantage in the increasingly fierce entertainment industry.
"Inside Out 2" Chinese version poster
In addition to changes in film production, Iger also emphasized that he believes Disney's streaming business will be a "growth driver" in the next few years. This week, Disney announced that its core streaming business, Disney+, earned $47 million in profit in the first quarter of this year. This is the first time this business has achieved a quarterly profit since its launch in 2019. However, because Disney+ has been losing money for a long time and its subscribers have failed to meet the growth expected by analysts, this profit did not bring much confidence to investors.
03 metgala was inspired by Ballard, and ai photos "invaded"
On May 6, local time, the 2024 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball (metropolitan museum of time) was held with the dress theme of "the garden of time" Art's Costume Institute in New York City (referred to as Met Gala) is held in New York, USA. Met Gala is held on the first Monday of May every year and is known as the "Oscars of the fashion industry." Invited celebrities and fashion industry figures will dress up according to each dress theme.
It is reported that this year's dress theme "The Garden of Time" comes from the dystopian-themed short story "The Garden of Time" published by the writer J.G. Ballard in 1962. The protagonists in the novel are the Earl and the Countess. Work together to take care of the garden in a manor, and you can turn back time by picking the blooming flowers in the garden. As the "rabble" who threaten the peaceful life of the count and countess get closer, they have to pick more and more flowers to turn back time - until the last flower is picked, the manor is occupied, and the count and countess Turned into a statue. The New York Times commented that as the "most luxurious" event of the year, Met Gala has the theme of "Garden of Time", which is both appropriate and ironic - when society is generally angry with the "elites", at Met Gala What is celebrated at the gala is a group of "contemporary aristocrats".
Ballard's "Garden of Time" metaphor also extends beyond the star-studded red carpet of Met Gala. "Imposters" generated by artificial intelligence have unknowingly invaded the "Garden of Time" - a large number of AI-generated, Photos of celebrities "attending" the Met Gala who weren't actually in attendance went viral on social media. On social media Some still received thousands of likes and shares.
Picture source: x
Some comments expressed concern about those pictures related to Met Gala that are fake and real. "Forbes" commented in an article that a large amount of artificial intelligence-generated content blurs the line between fiction and reality. The Internet, a "digital oasis" built by human interaction, is being threatened by artificial intelligence-generated content.
Reference:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/disney-bob-iger-movie-output
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/marvel-tv- shows-movies-reduced-bob-iger-disney-1235994149/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/05/07/met-gala-2024-ai-generated-impostors-invade-the- garden-of-time/?sh=9cae97925af4
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/fashion/garden-of-time-jg-ballard-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024 /05/06/books/booksupdate/pulitzer-prize-books-winners-finalists.html
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94978-night -watch-a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-king-among-2024-pulitzer-prize-winners.html
https://www.pulitzer.org/
It is reported that Disney plans to adjust the arrangement of producing four Marvel movies a year to "up to three" per year, and the number of spin-off TV series produced per year will also be changed from the previous four to two per year. This move is considered to be an adjustment made due to the public's aesthetic fatigue towards superhero movies in recent years.
Despite the poor box office performance of Disney's films over the past year, Iger said that in his opinion, Disney's upcoming slate of movies is "great." He believes that Disney has a great advantage in IP and is satisfied with the balance the company maintains between producing original movies and movie sequels. He noted that "sequels are extremely valuable" because they are part of a known series and have relatively low marketing costs. In the next few months, Disney will release a series of IP sequels, including Pixar's "Inside Out 2" (Inside Out 2), "Moana 2" (Moana 2) and Marvel's " "Deadpool & Wolverine" (Deadpool & Wolverine), etc. - all to ensure that Disney maintains a competitive advantage in the increasingly fierce entertainment industry.
"Inside Out 2" Chinese version poster
In addition to changes in film production, Iger also emphasized that he believes Disney's streaming business will be a "growth driver" in the next few years. This week, Disney announced that its core streaming business, Disney+, earned $47 million in profit in the first quarter of this year. This is the first time this business has achieved a quarterly profit since its launch in 2019. However, because Disney+ has been losing money for a long time and its subscribers have failed to meet the growth expected by analysts, this profit did not bring much confidence to investors.
03 metgala was inspired by Ballard, and ai photos "invaded"
On May 6, local time, the 2024 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball (metropolitan museum of time) was held with the dress theme of "the garden of time" Art's Costume Institute in New York City (referred to as Met Gala) is held in New York, USA. Met Gala is held on the first Monday of May every year and is known as the "Oscars of the fashion industry." Invited celebrities and fashion industry figures will dress up according to each dress theme.
It is reported that this year's dress theme "The Garden of Time" comes from the dystopian-themed short story "The Garden of Time" published by the writer J.G. Ballard in 1962. The protagonists in the novel are the Earl and the Countess. Work together to take care of the garden in a manor, and you can turn back time by picking the blooming flowers in the garden. As the "rabble" who threaten the peaceful life of the count and countess get closer, they have to pick more and more flowers to turn back time - until the last flower is picked, the manor is occupied, and the count and countess Turned into a statue. The New York Times commented that as the "most luxurious" event of the year, Met Gala has the theme of "Garden of Time", which is both appropriate and ironic - when society is generally angry with the "elites", at Met Gala What is celebrated at the gala is a group of "contemporary aristocrats".
Ballard's "Garden of Time" metaphor also extends beyond the star-studded red carpet of Met Gala. "Imposters" generated by artificial intelligence have unknowingly invaded the "Garden of Time" - a large number of AI-generated, Photos of celebrities "attending" the Met Gala who weren't actually in attendance went viral on social media. On social media Some still received thousands of likes and shares.
Picture source: x
Some comments expressed concern about those pictures related to Met Gala that are fake and real. "Forbes" commented in an article that a large amount of artificial intelligence-generated content blurs the line between fiction and reality. The Internet, a "digital oasis" built by human interaction, is being threatened by artificial intelligence-generated content.
Reference:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/disney-bob-iger-movie-output
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/marvel-tv- shows-movies-reduced-bob-iger-disney-1235994149/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/05/07/met-gala-2024-ai-generated-impostors-invade-the- garden-of-time/?sh=9cae97925af4
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/fashion/garden-of-time-jg-ballard-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024 /05/06/books/booksupdate/pulitzer-prize-books-winners-finalists.html
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94978-night -watch-a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-king-among-2024-pulitzer-prize-winners.html
https://www.pulitzer.org/
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