This week I have chosen to write a creative piece in the style of James Agee and Walker Evans: Continue reading “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Walker, 1941)”
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Nanook of the North: Fiction or non?
There is a thin line between fiction and reality. William Rothman points out that “fiction films do bring real life to the screen”, as the subjects that are being filmed are real. However, it is also true that documentaries are fictional, because once they appear on screen, the subjects being filmed become virtual ones. So how do we distinguish between the two? Continue reading “Nanook of the North: Fiction or non?”
Does History repeat itself, or it is that it never changed in the first place?
“They are the stones by the builder rejected. There is no place for them in the social fabric, while all the forces of society drive them downward till they perish. At the bottom of the Abyss they are feeble, besotted, and imbecile. If they reproduce, the life is so cheap that perforce it perishes of itself.” -Jack London. Continue reading “Does History repeat itself, or it is that it never changed in the first place?”
Who really did "murder the vets"?
Wet, deserted, silent.
The stench of death emanating from the heaps of scattered mangled bodies.
But whose fault was it? Continue reading “Who really did "murder the vets"?”