I really enjoyed this short essay by Shuja Haider. You might too.
Category Archives: Recommended Reading
Excerpts (485)
These excerpts could prove useful to a discussion of Ravenous and The Sorrow of War.
Two entries from Ness, Immanuel, Cope, Zak (Eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.
Film Form (303/485)
Here are some resources for film analysis.
Yale Film Analysis Guide: https://filmanalysis.coursepress.yale.edu
Amy Viiiarejo, Film Studies (excerpts): VillarejoCH2 VillarejoGlossary
Happy Ides Day
A rare photo taken by a witness to Julius Caesar’s assassination.
Nineveh (485)
The Book of Nahum, chapter 3 (New International Version)
1Woe to the city of blood,
full of lies,
full of plunder,
never without victims!
2The crack of whips,
the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
and jolting chariots!
3Charging cavalry,
flashing swords
and glittering spears!
Many casualties,
piles of dead,
bodies without number,
people stumbling over the corpses—
4all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute,
alluring, the mistress of sorceries,
who enslaved nations by her prostitution
and peoples by her witchcraft.
I Don’t Monkey Around (303/415/485)
Before I can start on you,
you have to be shaved clean and close. I perfected my own special technique before I was kicked out of the Medical Association. My method is based partly on calling a spade a spade. I don't monkey around. -Have you got the money? -Yeah, you want it now? Sam said you could afford $200. Put it on the table there. Ever see any botched plastic jobs? If a man like me didn't like a fellow... he could surely fix him up for life. Make him look like a bulldog or a monkey. I'll make you look older, but good. -I'll make you look as if you've lived. -I have, Doc. I hope I'm not a coward when you start in. We're all cowards.
Skills
Energetically and thoughtfully studying the literary rendering of hard historical realities seems like a good one.
