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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
Posted in Art, Films, Literatura, News
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cine, Education, films, Walter Benjamin
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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
Posted in Analytic Philosophy, Literatura, Public Opinion, Terry Eagleton
Tagged Criticism, Eagleton, Literatura, literature, The Event of Literature
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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
Posted in Films, Romanticism
Tagged Cine, films, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, romanticismo
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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
Posted in Evil, Films, Philosophy, Public Opinion
Tagged Benthamism, capitalism, Charles Dickens, films, George Orwell, In Time, Michael Niccol, Victorianism
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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
Posted in Literatura, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion, Terry Eagleton
Tagged Eagleton, Lacan, Literatura, Macbeth, Obscene juissance, teatro, teoría crítica, William Shakespeare
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