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Highlights Column




Featured Book Releases:

Radical Atheism and New Spirituality (2011)


Burning Banks
and
Roasting Marshmallows:
The Education of Daniel Marleau
(2009)


Featured Essays:

Choosing a Rhetoric 
of the Enemy: 
Kenneth Burke's Comic Frame, Warrantable Outrage, and the Problem of Scapegoating

Rhetoric Society Quarterly publication (2011)

Demonizing Derrida and Deconstruction 

(Skeptic Magazine publication 2006)




Additional featured reading:


W. B. Macomber's
Love and Culture

A Philosophical commentary inspired by Plato's Symposium

For Table of Contents, further information,
and chapter links click
here




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.




 
 
 

 

 

The Sopranos

The Sopranos
Gratuitous Violence or High Drama?


 

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The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli
What future for the book?

 

 

Harry Potter

Harry Potter
Popular Fantasy at What Cultural Cost?




Film Analyses and Reviews
(many of which can also be found in Part II of Our Faith in Evil)

Red River (1948)

Shane (1953)

Psycho (1960) and the Slasher Horror Genre

Bonnie and Clyde (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Jaws (1975) versus Moby Dick

Taxi Driver (1976)

Star Wars Epic (1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002, 2005)

Raging Bull (1980)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

The Terminator Series (1984, 1991, 2003)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Matrix Series (1999, 2003, 2003)

Harry Potter Series (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011)

Lord of the Rings Epic (2001, 2002, 2003)

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

The Sopranos (1999-2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

The Book of Eli (2010)








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