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Greenaway's Books, Steven Marx
Greenaway's Books, Steven Marx
English
Peter Greenaway's adaptation of The Tempest is titled Prospero's Books, renaming and representing Shakespeare's play as a work made of books. Prospero begins imagining, speaking and writing The Tempest in his bath while turning the pages of "The Book of Water." It and the other 23 books which inspire and empower him appear in Greenaway's version both as props in the narrative and as "real" documents located in a separate picture plane, where they are described by a donnish voice distinct from that of the protagonist-author.
They Kill For Love: Defining The Erotic Thriller As A Film Genre, Douglas Keesey
They Kill For Love: Defining The Erotic Thriller As A Film Genre, Douglas Keesey
English
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The Bombay Boys Of Mira Nair, Firdaus Kanga And Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
The Bombay Boys Of Mira Nair, Firdaus Kanga And Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
English
The valorization of traditional sources that has come to be termed nativism has a broad politics that can distort the historical record by romanticizing the past. When Leopold Senghor or Amilcar Cabral speak of a "national culture"1 as the source for post-independence development and Frantz Fanon warns against the exoticization of "native"2 culture, the contours of the argument seem to be obvious: critics in one camp seek first to counter colonial cultural dominance; critics in the other camp wish to temper such rejection with a "domestication" of European culture. Westerners, even well-meaning ones, can get caught in related entanglements when …
Highball, Princeton Station, Kevin Clark
Platter, Kevin Clark
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Victims, Villains, And Vigilantes In Gilman's Detective Novel, Catherine Golden, Denise D. Knight
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Victims, Villains, And Vigilantes In Gilman's Detective Novel, Catherine Golden, Denise D. Knight
English
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Stay With Me, Susan Steinberg
Moses And The Egyptian: Religious Authority In Olaudah Equiano's Iteresting Narrative, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Moses And The Egyptian: Religious Authority In Olaudah Equiano's Iteresting Narrative, Eileen Razzari Elrod
English
From the first image that greeted readers of his book, Olaudah Equiano presented the self of his 1789 autobiographical narrative as a pious Christian, one whose religious conversion meant a kind of freedom as significant as his manumission from slavery. In the striking frontispiece portrait Equiano sits with biblical text in hand, insisting-in his visual as in his textual presentations of himself-that the Christianity he embraces is the defining feature of his life-story. He responds, as Susan Marren has suggested, to two paradoxical imperatives: one, to write himself into creation as a speaking subject and, two, to write an antislavery …