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Hitch as a Teachable Moment

Usually, British cultural gossip is far more interesting than ours. One example is the recent controversy about whether popular cinema has a place in regular schools’ curricula. As British Film Institute’s creative director Heather Stewart recently commented, “The idea of … Continue reading

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Eagleton’s The Event of Literature

Terry Eagleton is promoting his latest book The Event of Literature, soon to be released by Yale University Press. In a recent interview — released by Yale Books and available online: part 1 and part 2 — he says that … Continue reading

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Melancolía (2011)

Melancolía (Zentropa, 2011) es la más reciente aventura cinematográfica del director danés Lars von Trier. Como muchas de sus obras anteriores, esta última también ha generado una gran cantidad de crítica, mucha de ella negativa y, en ocasiones, hasta hostil … Continue reading

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In Time (2011)

Noah Berlatsky is totally right, In Time (2011) wants to be a critique of capitalism but instead it ends up being a “searing satire of America’s utter inability to critique capitalism.” However, what Berlatsky fails to recognize is that the film … Continue reading

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Las brujas de Macbeth I

En su libro sobre William Shakespeare, Terry Eagleton adelanta la ingeniosa tesis de que las brujas de Macbeth constituyen una suerte de célula revolucionaria cuyo objetivo no es otro que el de subvertir el orden social del antiguo reino escocés … Continue reading

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