Wes Anderson’s new movie Fantastic Mr. Fox takes a beloved children’s book–his beloved book from childhood I assume–and turns it into a film for adults–I’m hearing tales of kids leaving the theatres disappointed and bewildered. Spike Jones and Dave Eggers transformed Where the Wild Things Are in a very similar vein, bringing the sad weight [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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From Minal Hajratwala, author of the recently released and well-received Leaving India:
“I noticed the other day that my Amazon sales ranking had disappeared. Now I know why: all books labeled as having “gay and lesbian” content have been stripped of rankings and searchability. The main entry for my book no longer shows up under either [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Moon
An astronaut movie more like Solaris and nothing like Apollo 13.
Why: A great scifi plot, Sam Rockwell, an amazing actor who has so far skimmed slightly under the radar, and Kaya Scodalerio from Skins, my favorite show from 2008.
Light Boxes
A novel by Shane Jones about a war waged by a group of balloonists against the [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Ang Lee’s most recently released film, 2007’s Lust, Caution has been described by critics as an espionage thriller, which does little to convey the major themes of this elegant elegy that follows a young girl’s journey from student to spy.
Posted on December 17th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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I recently had to read my first bit of Chomsky for a class, and was as thrilled as everyone else. It’s easy to see why his work has been so influential across many fields. Much of what Herman and Chomsky note in “A Propaganda Model” is strikingly relevant to issues developing around the growth of [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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With the release of Malcolm Gladwell’s third book, Outliers, and accompanying public tour, it seems everyone wants a piece or a punch. We’ve got The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell: A guru for the brain dead, Malcolm Gladwell’s Secrets of Success, and the most considered and thoughtful of the lot (even if the name [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Society of the Spectacle is a foundational work from the Situationist movement active in Europe in the 1950s and 60s, written by Guy Debord, founding member and central figure of the group Situationist International. The work applies Adorno and the Frankfurt School’s Marxist theory of the commodification of culture to mass media and society and [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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The paper “Youth Culture” defines and situates the term “global youth culture” within the currently dominant theoretical frameworks from cultural and media studies, including the Frankfurt School as well as the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. The paper also touches upon recent work done in “Post-subcultural Studies” that incorporates the influence of recent new [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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The article, presented as a guide for prevention professionals, focuses on differentiating immigrants by legal status, migration experiences, and cultural values and urges prevention professionals to consider all three when designing prevention strategies for individuals. The article is written for service providers in the field of prevention and assumes that readers are familiar with the [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Published fourteen years ago, Hopes, Dreams & Promises describes the state of homelessness in New York and presents a case for funding longer-term solutions through a case study of a program run by Homes for the Homeless. The RET Center’s operations and individual programs are profiled and intercut with snapshots of individuals within the system [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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