"Instrument: Ten Years with the Band Fugazi"

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In this review of the film, the idea of semiotics is brought up and symbolism is focused upon. It details what the band signifies, comments on the use of non-concrete, emotional and visual language and interprets the film's frequent use of personal interviews.

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"The film Instrument: Ten Years with the Band Fugazi, directed by Jem Cohen is not designed specifically as an exercise in semiotics. However, music or film critics, to better shed light upon the nature of the director's project, may interpret the film in a semiotic fashion. Over the course of the film, the band Fugazi takes on the significance of a symbol certain aspects of the alternative music movement, aspects that have emerged relatively uncorrupted by the mass media's adoption of alternative music because of the perseverance of the band's members. The band comes to symbolize what is pure and lasting about the aspects of the youth movement that began as "alternative music.""

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