Culture
Highlights Column
Periodically Updated
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Featured music:
"Footprints
in Paradise"
Title track excerpt
from Larry Lagerberg's
first CD release.
Smooth, relaxing jazz.
Album available at Larry's website
here
Play music sample
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Recommended reading:
Nihilism in Film and Television
(2006)
by Kevin L. Stoehr
Stoehr offers a critical overview of the nihilistic vision of film noir
from Citizen Kane
to The Sopranos.
Though I offer an alternative to a noir interpretation of The Sopranos
(click here), Stoehr's chapter on this TV
series is insightful, as is the entire book. For publisher's
information click on the title.
Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy
and Satanic Abuse in History
(2006)
by David Frankfurter
Consistent
with the thesis of Our Faith in Evil,
Frankfurter challenges the social/cultural value invested in the
traditional concept of evil by revealing how this fictional concept
creates very real horrors in human community. For publisher's
information click on the title.
Featured
reading among recent additions to this
site:
W. B. Macomber's
Love and
Culture
A Philosophical commentary inspired by Plato's
Symposium
Chapters released monthly
For Table of Contents, further information,
and chapter links click
here
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Recommended viewing:
No
Country for Old Men
(2007)
Directed by
Ethan and Joel Coen
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy and winner of four Academy Awards. See further comments and links on the home page.
Merry
Christmas
Mr. Lawrence
(1983)
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
Optimum's 2005 DVD release of this classic film contains an interview
with the author of the book on which Oshima's screenplay is
based--Laurens Van Der Post--as well as interviews with David Bowie and
Ryuichi Sakamoto. This World War II POW drama presents an extraordinary
clash of cultural differences and individual wills. Click on the title
above for my commentary on the film.
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Recommended art:
The
Salvador Dali Gallery
Browse a complete collection of Dali's work along with a wealth of
information about each work and his life
The Zeugma Mosaics
Beautiful GrecoRoman art saved from a flooded section of the Euphrates
River. See the video fly-through at this link for the 14 room Roman
villa that housed these amazing mosaics.
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