![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I could easily have gotten into Stephen King, or any other writer from the current century. This was 1980s northern California very “Stranger Things,” down to the fact that we lived next door to a mental hospital. The summer before fifth grade, my mother would stand on the front porch and yell, “Ma-a-a-a-n-dy.” That was my cue to run home from playing in the clearing at the end of the street so we could watch Masterpiece Theatre re-runs together. In my case, however, the path to Brit Lit started someplace unexpected: in front of the TV. One thing I have in common with my main character, Mary Porter-Malcolm, is that both of us got hooked on the classics at a young age. Amanda Sellet’s debut novel, By the Book: A Novel of Prose and Cons, releases out into the world on Tuesday, May 12th! To celebrate, I’m excited to host Amanda today as she talks about the TV and movie adaptations that inspired her love of classics and British Literature. ![]()
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Austin Grainger sat with his legs kicked up, his booted feet crossed at the ankle, perched on the porch banister as he watched Kitt work his beloved quarter horse, Hooch, in the corral a few hundred feet away. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It goes further to demonstrate how the Nigerian comic character dismantles European language to enable him ‘write back’ to the Center. The paper also evaluates thematic and structural relationships of Zebrudaya and Molière. It shows in what ways Nigerian Zebrudaya shares some artistic and socio-cultural features with the French Molière or his characters, despite their spatial, temporal and artistic differentiations. The character of Chief Zebrudaya is typically encapsulated in the persona of the classical French dramaturge/playwright, Molière. The language of the soap is full of heterolinguistic permutations, modifications, transfigurations and total transgressions of conventional English structures, recreated and manipulated with local parlances and dialects as raw material for the service of the viewing masses. The sense and science of humor in The New Masquerade are informed by its postcolonial linguistic appropriation. The episodic representations, although full of caricatures and farcical qualities, express serious disillusionment, becoming an indictment of the postcolonial Nigeria. The Nigerian comedy series, “The New Masquerade” or “Masquerade”, remains “one of the Nigeria’s longest running and most watched television show as transmitted by Nigerian Television Authority in the 80s and 90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s not September anymore,” the septuagenarian says with bittersweet self-awareness, just before he’s shown wielding a scythe to prepare a garden for renewal. The film regards not just the seasons of the year but the seasons of Oudolf’s life. ![]() His emphasis on the changing seasons highlights the ways the gardens adapt and thrive. His multihued drawings are a delightful cross of simplicity and sophistication (and the eventual subject of an exhibition), and Piper effectively connects the studio work to the field work, when the selected shrubs and herbs and grasses are set in the ground. Piper opens the film, intriguingly, with the scratch of markers on drafting paper as Oudolf sketches a new garden plan. A complex, dimensional portrait of Oudolf never quite emerges, though, and the brief doc, however lovely, lacks an essential dynamism that would make it truly compelling. “And I let them perform.”Įvocatively scored by David Thor Jonsson and Charles Gansa, and handsomely shot by the director, the film is, at its strongest, an inspiring sensory immersion in that performance, one in which the (mostly unidentified) plants are the stars. It’s a curated wildness “I put plants onstage,” Oudolf says. As he follows Oudolf’s travels through Europe and the States to completed projects and works-in-progress, director Thomas Piper illuminates the striking, seemingly rough-hewn beauty of his subject’s landscapes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dalton, a wealthy white man whose daughter, Mary, soon takes an interest in the young black man. Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a poor black man living in Chicago during the Great Depression. But as source material, it’s grisly and heavy-handed, a tale that originally was met with either horror or adulation. It might seem, then, that Wright’s novel is the kind of story that lends itself easily-or at least fruitfully-to visual renderings. By 2014, there had been yet another Native Son film and two more plays. ![]() Ten years later, Wright played his own protagonist in an unfortunate Argentinian film adaptation, Sangre negra (“black blood”). In March 1941, Wright and the playwright Paul Green staged a contentious, Orson Welles–directed production at New York’s St. Just over a year after the author Richard Wright published his first novel, Native Son, in March 1940, the text was adapted for the first time. ![]() This article contains spoilers for Native Son. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything I loved about the first book was diminished and the choices Lu made changed the entire world, leaving me wondering what was the first book for if none of that buildup would matter with the second book? The only thing that really pushed me through my disappointment was my built-up anticipation after the mind blowing first book. But I do have to judge this one with that context. ![]() If I viewed this book in isolation from the first and from Lu’s other works, I doubt that I would be reviewing it so harshly. After all the momentum created by Warcross, what happened? How could such a cool premise and intriguing plot line fall flat? I was so sure that after the depth of world/character building in book one that this book would take off running. For the first time with a Marie Lu book, I have been left feeling dissatisfied. I hate to say that I was really disappointed with this book. Hi, it’s Aashna! Today I am going to be reviewing Wildcard by Marie Lu. ![]() ![]() ![]() Save Your Soul.) reprising their roles, with Billy Barratt ( Invasion) and Taeho K ( Colony) coming aboard for new ones. ![]() The STXfilms/Madison Wells Studio production will also have Nicola Correia-Damude ( The Boys), Noah Dalton Danby ( Titans) and Devere Rogers ( Honk for Jesus. ![]() In the sequel from Amazon Studios, a now teenage Sophie convinces JJ to chaperone her school choir trip to Italy where they both unwittingly end up pawns in an international terrorist plot targeting CIA Chief, David Kim and his son, Collin - who also happens to be Sophie’s best friend. The film written by Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber and directed by Peter Segal broke out as one of the major unexpected successes of 2020, as the third most-watched film on SVOD according to ScreenEngine, following Disney+’s Hamilton and Prime Video’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Simona Tabasco Joins Sydney Sweeney In Psychological Horror Film ‘Immaculate’ ![]() ![]() ![]() Witness Harleen’s first steps on a doomed quest that will give birth to the legendary super-villain Harley Quinn in this stunning reimagining of Harley and The Joker’s twisted and tragic love affair by visionary storyteller Stjepan Šejic (AQUAMAN: UNDERWORLD, SUICIDE SQUAD, Sunstone). But with the criminal justice and mental health establishments united against her, the brilliant young psychologist must take drastic measures to save Gotham from itself. Harleen Quinzel has discovered a revolutionary cure for the madness of Gotham City-she just needs to prove it actually works. 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