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Film Noir, decoded
Cover art for audio version of unabridged Mildred Pierce This is the analysis of James M. Cain’s popular novel Mildred Pierce, especially as interpreted by HBO this Spring (2011). I started by finding...
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Links to Cormac McCarthy and Mark Twain blogs
http://clarespark.com/2011/11/17/blood-meridian-and-the-deep-ecologists/ http://clarespark.com/2011/11/21/cormac-mccarthy-vs-herman-melville/ http://clarespark.com/2012/01/13/mark-twains-failed-yankee/...
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The Great Dumbing Down (2)
Devils from Rila Monastery In a prior blog, I attempted to “periodize” the moment when American culture turned toward stupidity and away from the Prometheanism implied in the conception of American...
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LABOR DAY 2014
Labor Day was a counter-revolutionary exercise in its very foundation during the administration of Grover Cleveland. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day. Revolutionary socialism was the last...
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Penny Dreadful’s sinister significance
In the US, late 19th century dime novels were the precursors to early movies; while in the UK, their similarly cheap, sensational analogs were “penny dreadfuls”...
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