Recent content by Rebis

Phallic Woman Samuel Fuller's 40 Guns (recently out on DVD, at least in the US), gorgeous widescreen black and white with Barbara Stanwyck as the phallic woman ("She's a high-riding woman with a whip...")

merchant capital According to Giovanni Arrighi, who I am reading now and who pretty much follows Braudel, the "systematic accumulation of capital" dates back to merchants in Italian city-states (Venice, Florence, Genoa) of the 15th & 16th centuries.