Here’s a link to a short description of Revolución [Revolution] (2010) made by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal’s company Cananea: Curt Hopkins (2010) “The (Mexican) Revolution Will be Televised – But on YouTube, and 100 Years After it Began” Readwrite, November 5th, http://readwrite.com/2010/11/05/the_mexican_revolution_will_be_televised_-_but_on. It includes a short video interview with the filmmakers. The film was first…
Month: February 2013
His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara
The full review will be published in the Journal of Socialist History. Today, I have been working on a review of His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara, a book of lyrics and poetry by the Chilean folk singer, Víctor Jara, whose life story has been overshadowed by his torture and death, yet the power…
Restless and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
I don’t normally write anything that is not directly related to my research area, but the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a trope that has caught my attention over the last couple of years. Here, Dominic Kelly writing in The Guardian describes the character as “a recurring trope in the romantic genre, [who] are…
Edward Saïd On Orientalism
I came across this video http://vimeo.com/14326780 today on a listserv. It’s an interview with Edward Saïd framed by an academic introduction to his work and uses a very interesting montage of images to establish its argument at the beginning. It is by Global Information Services, about whom you can find out more here: http://www.gisfilms.org/about.htm, whose “primary…