Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Radical chic

Index Radical chic

"Radical chic" is a term coined by journalist Tom Wolfe in his 1970 essay "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's" to describe the adoption and promotion of radical political causes by celebrities, socialites, and high society. [1]

92 relations: Academy Awards, Activism, Aestheticization of violence, American English, Antonio Banderas, Arab world, Baizuo, Bangor Daily News, Benicio del Toro, Black Panther Party, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, Celebrity, Champagne socialist, Charlotte Curtis, Che (2008 film), Che Guevara, Che Guevara in popular culture, Chevolution, Counterculture, Cultural appropriation, Elitism, Fashion, Felicia Montealegre, Forensic anthropology, French language, Frieze (magazine), Gael García Bernal, Geek, Golden Age of Porn, Graham Holdings Company, Guardian Media Group, Heroin chic, Hipster (contemporary subculture), Iconography, Ideology, Independent News & Media, Irish Independent, Italian language, Jet set, Keffiyeh, Left-wing politics, Leonard Bernstein, Liberal elite, Libertarianism, Lifestyle anarchism, Limousine liberal, Lipstick lesbian, List of chics, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, ..., Marxism, Militant, Moral blindness, New Statesman, New York (magazine), New York City, Political dissent, Political radicalism, Popular culture, Prada, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Rage Against the Machine, Reason (magazine), Reason Foundation, Rebellion, Red Army Faction, Regressive left, Revolutionary, Rutgers University Press, Santa Clara, Cuba, Semiotics, Social commentary, Social justice warrior, Socialism, Socialite, Steven Soderbergh, Subversion, Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine), Team America: World Police, Terrorism, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, The Observer, The Purple Decades, The Vacuum, The Washington Post, Time (magazine), Time Inc., Tom Wolfe, Tronc, Upper class, White guilt. Expand index (42 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

New!!: Radical chic and Academy Awards · See more »

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

New!!: Radical chic and Activism · See more »

Aestheticization of violence

The aestheticization of violence in high culture art or mass media has been the subject of considerable controversy and debate for centuries.

New!!: Radical chic and Aestheticization of violence · See more »

American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

New!!: Radical chic and American English · See more »

Antonio Banderas

José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor, singer, and producer.

New!!: Radical chic and Antonio Banderas · See more »

Arab world

The Arab world (العالم العربي; formally: Arab homeland, الوطن العربي), also known as the Arab nation (الأمة العربية) or the Arab states, currently consists of the 22 Arab countries of the Arab League.

New!!: Radical chic and Arab world · See more »

Baizuo

Baizuo (literally "White left(ies)") is a derogatory Chinese epithet that came into being in the middle 2010s.

New!!: Radical chic and Baizuo · See more »

Bangor Daily News

The Bangor Daily News is an American newspaper covering a large portion of rural Maine, published six days per week in Bangor, Maine.

New!!: Radical chic and Bangor Daily News · See more »

Benicio del Toro

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor.

New!!: Radical chic and Benicio del Toro · See more »

Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.

New!!: Radical chic and Black Panther Party · See more »

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

The Best Actor Award (Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

New!!: Radical chic and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor · See more »

Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

New!!: Radical chic and Celebrity · See more »

Champagne socialist

"Champagne socialist" is a pejorative political term originating in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Radical chic and Champagne socialist · See more »

Charlotte Curtis

Charlotte Murray Curtis (December 19, 1928 – April 16, 1987) was a journalist, columnist and editor at the New York Times.

New!!: Radical chic and Charlotte Curtis · See more »

Che (2008 film)

Che is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro.

New!!: Radical chic and Che (2008 film) · See more »

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)The date of birth recorded on was June 14, 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on May 14 of that year.

New!!: Radical chic and Che Guevara · See more »

Che Guevara in popular culture

Appearances of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara (1928–1967) in popular culture are common throughout the world.

New!!: Radical chic and Che Guevara in popular culture · See more »

Chevolution

Chevolution is a 2008 documentary film which examines the history and legacy of the photo Guerrillero Heroico taken by famous Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez.

New!!: Radical chic and Chevolution · See more »

Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

New!!: Radical chic and Counterculture · See more »

Cultural appropriation

Cultural appropriation is a concept dealing with the adoption of the elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture.

New!!: Radical chic and Cultural appropriation · See more »

Elitism

Elitism is the belief or attitude that individuals who form an elite — a select group of people with a certain ancestry, intrinsic quality, high intellect, wealth, special skills, or experience — are more likely to be constructive to society as a whole, and therefore deserve influence or authority greater than that of others.

New!!: Radical chic and Elitism · See more »

Fashion

Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle products, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body.

New!!: Radical chic and Fashion · See more »

Felicia Montealegre

Felicia Cohn Montealegre (3 March 1922 – 16 June 1978) was a Chilean stage and television actress born in San Jose, Costa Rica.

New!!: Radical chic and Felicia Montealegre · See more »

Forensic anthropology

Forensic anthropology is the application of the anatomical science of anthropology and its various subfields, including forensic archaeology and forensic taphonomy, in a legal setting.

New!!: Radical chic and Forensic anthropology · See more »

French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

New!!: Radical chic and French language · See more »

Frieze (magazine)

frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year from London.

New!!: Radical chic and Frieze (magazine) · See more »

Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal (born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican film actor, director, model and producer.

New!!: Radical chic and Gael García Bernal · See more »

Geek

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit, with a general pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".

New!!: Radical chic and Geek · See more »

Golden Age of Porn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2018/01#Another_Worthy_Journal_Article_on_Wordpress ---> The Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (around 1969–1984) in commercial American pornography, which spread internationally, in which sexually-explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, and the general public.

New!!: Radical chic and Golden Age of Porn · See more »

Graham Holdings Company

Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate, best known for formerly owning the newspaper for which it was once named, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.

New!!: Radical chic and Graham Holdings Company · See more »

Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer.

New!!: Radical chic and Guardian Media Group · See more »

Heroin chic

Heroin chic was a look popularized in mid-1990s fashion and characterized by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes, very skinny body, dark red lipstick and angular bone structure.

New!!: Radical chic and Heroin chic · See more »

Hipster (contemporary subculture)

The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of younger and middle-aged adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighborhoods.

New!!: Radical chic and Hipster (contemporary subculture) · See more »

Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

New!!: Radical chic and Iconography · See more »

Ideology

An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.

New!!: Radical chic and Ideology · See more »

Independent News & Media

Independent News & Media plc (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, and operating across several countries.

New!!: Radical chic and Independent News & Media · See more »

Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper, published by Independent News & Media (INM).

New!!: Radical chic and Irish Independent · See more »

Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

New!!: Radical chic and Italian language · See more »

Jet set

In journalism, jet set was a term for an international social group of wealthy people who travelled the world to participate in social activities unavailable to ordinary people.

New!!: Radical chic and Jet set · See more »

Keffiyeh

The keffiyeh or kufiya (كُوفِيَّة, meaning "from the city of Kufa" (الْكُوفَة); plural كُوفِيَّات), also known as a ghutrah (غُترَة), shemagh (شُمَاغ), (حَطَّة), mashadah (مَشَدَة), chafiye (چفیه), dastmal yazdi (دستمال یزدی) or cemedanî (جه مه داني), is a traditional Middle Eastern headdress fashioned from a square scarf, usually made of cotton.

New!!: Radical chic and Keffiyeh · See more »

Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

New!!: Radical chic and Left-wing politics · See more »

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

New!!: Radical chic and Leonard Bernstein · See more »

Liberal elite

Liberal elite (also metropolitan elite in the United Kingdom) is a pejorative term used to describe people who are politically left of centre, whose education had traditionally opened the doors to affluence and power and form a managerial elite.

New!!: Radical chic and Liberal elite · See more »

Libertarianism

Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.

New!!: Radical chic and Libertarianism · See more »

Lifestyle anarchism

Lifestyle anarchism is a term derived from Murray Bookchin's polemical Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm.

New!!: Radical chic and Lifestyle anarchism · See more »

Limousine liberal

Limousine liberal and latte liberal are pejorative American political terms used to illustrate purported hypocritical behavior by political liberals of upper class or upper middle class status; for example, calling for the use of mass transit while frequently using privately-owned luxury transportation, especially by limousines or private jets in the case of the extremely affluent, claiming environmental consciousness but driving fuel inefficient sports cars or SUVs, attacking income inequality while being wealthy themselves, or ostensibly supporting public education while actually sending their children to private schools.

New!!: Radical chic and Limousine liberal · See more »

Lipstick lesbian

A lipstick lesbian is slang for a lesbian who exhibits a greater amount of feminine gender attributes relative to other gender expressions, such as wearing make-up (thus, lipstick), wearing dresses or skirts and having other characteristics associated with feminine women.

New!!: Radical chic and Lipstick lesbian · See more »

List of chics

This is a list of notable chics.

New!!: Radical chic and List of chics · See more »

Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

New!!: Radical chic and Los Angeles · See more »

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

New!!: Radical chic and Los Angeles Times · See more »

Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

New!!: Radical chic and Marxism · See more »

Militant

The English word militant is both an adjective and a noun, and is generally used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in "militant reformers".

New!!: Radical chic and Militant · See more »

Moral blindness

Moral blindness is a state of unawareness or insensibility to moral issues pertaining both to oneself and to one's relations to others.

New!!: Radical chic and Moral blindness · See more »

New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

New!!: Radical chic and New Statesman · See more »

New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

New!!: Radical chic and New York (magazine) · See more »

New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Radical chic and New York City · See more »

Political dissent

Political dissent refers to any expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body.

New!!: Radical chic and Political dissent · See more »

Political radicalism

The term political radicalism (in political science known as radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.

New!!: Radical chic and Political radicalism · See more »

Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

New!!: Radical chic and Popular culture · See more »

Prada

Prada S.p.A. is an Italian luxury fashion house, specializing in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, perfumes and other fashion accessories, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada.

New!!: Radical chic and Prada · See more »

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe.

New!!: Radical chic and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers · See more »

Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

New!!: Radical chic and Rage Against the Machine · See more »

Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

New!!: Radical chic and Reason (magazine) · See more »

Reason Foundation

The Reason Foundation is an American libertarian think tank founded in 1978.

New!!: Radical chic and Reason Foundation · See more »

Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.

New!!: Radical chic and Rebellion · See more »

Red Army Faction

The Red Army Faction (RAF; German),See the section ''Faction'' versus ''Fraktion'' also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group or Baader-Meinhof Gang, was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970.

New!!: Radical chic and Red Army Faction · See more »

Regressive left

"Regressive left" (also formulated as "regressive liberals" and "regressive leftists") is a political epithet, used as a pejorative to describe a section of left-wing politics who are accused of holding paradoxical, reactionary views by their tolerance of illiberal principles and ideologies, particularly tolerance of Islamism, for the sake of multiculturalism and cultural relativism.

New!!: Radical chic and Regressive left · See more »

Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates revolution.

New!!: Radical chic and Revolutionary · See more »

Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.

New!!: Radical chic and Rutgers University Press · See more »

Santa Clara, Cuba

Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara.

New!!: Radical chic and Santa Clara, Cuba · See more »

Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

New!!: Radical chic and Semiotics · See more »

Social commentary

Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on issues in a society.

New!!: Radical chic and Social commentary · See more »

Social justice warrior

Social justice warrior (commonly abbreviated SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism, as well as identity politics.

New!!: Radical chic and Social justice warrior · See more »

Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

New!!: Radical chic and Socialism · See more »

Socialite

A socialite is a person (usually from a privileged, wealthy, or aristocratic background) who has a wide reputation and a high position in society.

New!!: Radical chic and Socialite · See more »

Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

New!!: Radical chic and Steven Soderbergh · See more »

Subversion

Subversion (Latin subvertere: overthrow) refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed, an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and norm (social).

New!!: Radical chic and Subversion · See more »

Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)

The Sun Journal is a newspaper published in Lewiston, Maine, US, and covers the west of Maine.

New!!: Radical chic and Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine) · See more »

Team America: World Police

Team America: World Police is a 2004 American-German adult animated puppet satirical action comedy film produced by Scott Rudin, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker, written by Parker, Stone and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated television series South Park.

New!!: Radical chic and Team America: World Police · See more »

Terrorism

Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.

New!!: Radical chic and Terrorism · See more »

The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

New!!: Radical chic and The Jerusalem Post · See more »

The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

New!!: Radical chic and The New York Times · See more »

The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

New!!: Radical chic and The Observer · See more »

The Purple Decades

The Purple Decades: A Reader is a collection of the non-fiction writing of Tom Wolfe, published in 1982.

New!!: Radical chic and The Purple Decades · See more »

The Vacuum

The Vacuum is a free newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland by the arts organisation Factotum.

New!!: Radical chic and The Vacuum · See more »

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

New!!: Radical chic and The Washington Post · See more »

Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

New!!: Radical chic and Time (magazine) · See more »

Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

New!!: Radical chic and Time Inc. · See more »

Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

New!!: Radical chic and Tom Wolfe · See more »

Tronc

Tronc, Inc. (stylized as tronc; formerly Tribune Publishing) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company based in Chicago, Illinois.

New!!: Radical chic and Tronc · See more »

Upper class

The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.

New!!: Radical chic and Upper class · See more »

White guilt

White guilt is the individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from racist treatment of ethnic minorities by other white people both historically and currently in the United States and to a lesser extent in Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Radical chic and White guilt · See more »

Redirects here:

Jihad chic, Jihadi chic, Militant chic, Prada-Meinhof, Rad chic, Radical Chic, Radical chics, Radical-chic, Terror chic, Terrorist chic.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_chic

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »