It may well be an unconscious impulse but the writers are directly or indirectly influenced by their socio-political millieu, even when opposing it, and you don’t need to be a Marxist to acknowledge that.
As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.
The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.
The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
- 9/4/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The first James Bond film, ‘Dr. No,” starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord and Joseph Wiseman, opened in England on Oct. 2, 1962. But the 007 classic didn’t open in New York and Los Angeles until May 29, 1963. Let’s travel back almost six decades to look at the top events, movie, TV series, books and other cultural events of that year in James Bond history, which was punctuated by the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22.
35th Annual Academy Awards
Best Picture: “Lawrence of Arabia”
Best Director: David Lean, “Lawrence of Arabia”
Best Actor: Gregory Peck, “To Kill a Mockingbird
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft, “The Miracle Worker”
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley, “Sweet Bird of Youth”
Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke, “The Miracle Worker”
Top 10 highest grossing films
“Cleopatra”
“How the West Was Won”
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
“Tom Jones”
“Irma La Douce...
35th Annual Academy Awards
Best Picture: “Lawrence of Arabia”
Best Director: David Lean, “Lawrence of Arabia”
Best Actor: Gregory Peck, “To Kill a Mockingbird
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft, “The Miracle Worker”
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley, “Sweet Bird of Youth”
Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke, “The Miracle Worker”
Top 10 highest grossing films
“Cleopatra”
“How the West Was Won”
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
“Tom Jones”
“Irma La Douce...
- 10/8/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Jill Halfpenny, Jonas Armstrong and Rupert Penry-Jones are to star in an identity thriller for British broadcaster Channel 5 from Noel Clarke and Jason Maza’s Unstoppable Film & Television.
The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with shows including Cold Call and Penance.
The Drowning starts when Jodie, played by Liar’s Halfpenny, catches sight of Daniel, played by newcomer Cody Molko, a teenage boy, she is convinced she has found her missing son. Whether she is right or not, in that moment her spark of hope is ignited and she commits to a dangerous and transgressive path that will take her to the edge of reason. How far will she go? How far would any of us go to find a missing child?
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life...
The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with shows including Cold Call and Penance.
The Drowning starts when Jodie, played by Liar’s Halfpenny, catches sight of Daniel, played by newcomer Cody Molko, a teenage boy, she is convinced she has found her missing son. Whether she is right or not, in that moment her spark of hope is ignited and she commits to a dangerous and transgressive path that will take her to the edge of reason. How far will she go? How far would any of us go to find a missing child?
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life...
- 2/19/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
On Monday night, friends of E. Jean Carroll gathered at a small party for her at a Brooklyn brownstone. Someone had baked a heart-shaped pink cake with the word “Brave” spelled out on it in red sugar. Carroll, the advice columnist and author — and Trump’s latest sexual assault accuser — had just come off a day spinning through the media cycle. She sipped Chartreuse on ice, and maintained a cool, calm and wry demeanor, a little distracted by hugs and well-wishers’ tears. She told everyone she was doing fine, that...
- 6/26/2019
- by Nina Burleigh
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Good Deed Entertainment’s Cranked Up Films has acquired North American distribution rights to the Irish supernatural comedy Extra Ordinary from Epic Pictures with an eye toward a fall 2019 theatrical release.
Extra Ordinary, which premiered at SXSW in March, is the debut feature from co-directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, who also co-wrote the script for the fantasy-based comedy. The movie was filmed on location in Ireland.
The film stars Maeve Higgins, the Irish comedian, podcaster (she hosts My Best Break-Up on Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine roster) and author. The cast also features Barry Ward (Sky’s Britannia), Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth) and Claudia O’Doherty (Trainwreck).
The quirky tale follows Rose (Higgins), a sweet-hearted driving instructor who hides her supernatural gifts from other residents of her Irish small town. Rose must overcome her own...
Extra Ordinary, which premiered at SXSW in March, is the debut feature from co-directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, who also co-wrote the script for the fantasy-based comedy. The movie was filmed on location in Ireland.
The film stars Maeve Higgins, the Irish comedian, podcaster (she hosts My Best Break-Up on Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine roster) and author. The cast also features Barry Ward (Sky’s Britannia), Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth) and Claudia O’Doherty (Trainwreck).
The quirky tale follows Rose (Higgins), a sweet-hearted driving instructor who hides her supernatural gifts from other residents of her Irish small town. Rose must overcome her own...
- 6/25/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
The Oscar ceremonies have had their share of controversial moments over the years, from Marlon Brando sending a Native American surrogate to refuse his Best Actor Oscar for “The Godfather” to Michael Moore being booed off the stage when he tried to get political while accepting the Best Documentary trophy for “Bowling for Columbine.” No controversy was as big and dramatic though as the Best Supporting Actress category at the 1978 Oscar ceremony, which was awarded to Vanessa Redgrave for “Julia” (1977). On this the 40th anniversary of her win Gold Derby takes a look back at an incredibly memorable Oscar night.
Vanessa Redgrave was a popular and frequent nominee with academy members in her early years in film. She received three Best Actress nominations in quick succession for “Morgan” (1966), “Isadora” (1968) and “Mary, Queen of Scotts” (1971). For 1977 she received her first Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in “Julia.” That film...
Vanessa Redgrave was a popular and frequent nominee with academy members in her early years in film. She received three Best Actress nominations in quick succession for “Morgan” (1966), “Isadora” (1968) and “Mary, Queen of Scotts” (1971). For 1977 she received her first Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in “Julia.” That film...
- 2/22/2018
- by Robert Pius
- Gold Derby
Turner Broadcasting, whose portfolio includes TBS, CNN, truTV, Adult Swim, and Cartoon Network, among multiple others, is moving forward with more original programming. The big news comes at TBS, which got The Daily Show funny couple Jason Jones and Samantha Bee on their own projects. As had been announced, they would be producing a show for TBS starring Jones, and we now know it's called The Detour. They're also set to do an "issues-oriented series" (we're thinking it'll be similar to something we saw on Tds) with Bee headlining. Steve and Nancy Carell have a show on TBS called Angie Tribeca starring Rashida Jones, and Conan O'Brien reunites with The Office producer Greg Daniels for a TBS comedy pilot about alien abductees called The Group (nope, not the Mary McCarthy kind). Cary Fukunaga, True Detective's great man-bun, is doing a TNT show called The Alienist, based on the novel...
- 5/13/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
Fiction sometimes seems to contain almost as many recipes as cookery, but which are the most appetising?
James Bond was always fussy about his food – remember that breakfast in Casino Royale with "half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, and a double portion of coffee without sugar". Now William Boyd has taken 007's foodie fetishism to a new level with a footnoted recipe for salad dressing.
It opens up a whole new perspective on your bookshelves – what if you tried to live off the recipes buried between the covers of your favourite fiction? There's an old joke about Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) – you might not enjoy the novel, but you can certainly learn how to make the French classic dish boeuf en daube. But this is completely untrue: the dish is made by Mildred (a cook who seems to spend most of her time...
James Bond was always fussy about his food – remember that breakfast in Casino Royale with "half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, and a double portion of coffee without sugar". Now William Boyd has taken 007's foodie fetishism to a new level with a footnoted recipe for salad dressing.
It opens up a whole new perspective on your bookshelves – what if you tried to live off the recipes buried between the covers of your favourite fiction? There's an old joke about Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) – you might not enjoy the novel, but you can certainly learn how to make the French classic dish boeuf en daube. But this is completely untrue: the dish is made by Mildred (a cook who seems to spend most of her time...
- 11/8/2013
- by Moira Redmond
- The Guardian - Film News
Greta Gerwig shines as a privileged drifter struggling to grow up in a film she co-scripted with Noah Baumbach
Greta Gerwig, a Californian educated in New York, emerged from that low-budget area of American independent cinema known for its stumbling verbosity as "mumblecore", first making an impression in the 2008 movie Hannah Takes the Stairs as a would-be playwright with a temporary job in Chicago. Noah Baumbach's parents were writers. Raised in the Manhattan literary world, he was educated at Vassar, the prestigious Ivy League college that went co-educational in 1969, and established himself as a writer-director in 2006 with the semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale. His leading characters both male and female are spiky misfits, deliberately alienating themselves from their families. Although his genre is comedy, laughter isn't always his object.
Gerwig first worked with Baumbach in his 2010 film Greenberg, giving an outstanding performance as a sad Los Angeles dreamer with musical ambitions,...
Greta Gerwig, a Californian educated in New York, emerged from that low-budget area of American independent cinema known for its stumbling verbosity as "mumblecore", first making an impression in the 2008 movie Hannah Takes the Stairs as a would-be playwright with a temporary job in Chicago. Noah Baumbach's parents were writers. Raised in the Manhattan literary world, he was educated at Vassar, the prestigious Ivy League college that went co-educational in 1969, and established himself as a writer-director in 2006 with the semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale. His leading characters both male and female are spiky misfits, deliberately alienating themselves from their families. Although his genre is comedy, laughter isn't always his object.
Gerwig first worked with Baumbach in his 2010 film Greenberg, giving an outstanding performance as a sad Los Angeles dreamer with musical ambitions,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Greta Gerwig shines as a privileged drifter struggling to grow up in a film she co-scripted with Noah Baumbach
Greta Gerwig, a Californian educated in New York, emerged from that low-budget area of American independent cinema known for its stumbling verbosity as "mumblecore", first making an impression in the 2008 movie Hannah Takes the Stairs as a would-be playwright with a temporary job in Chicago. Noah Baumbach's parents were writers. Raised in the Manhattan literary world, he was educated at Vassar, the prestigious Ivy League college that went co-educational in 1969, and established himself as a writer-director in 2006 with the semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale. His leading characters both male and female are spiky misfits, deliberately alienating themselves from their families. Although his genre is comedy, laughter isn't always his object.
Gerwig first worked with Baumbach in his 2010 film Greenberg, giving an outstanding performance as a sad Los Angeles dreamer with musical ambitions,...
Greta Gerwig, a Californian educated in New York, emerged from that low-budget area of American independent cinema known for its stumbling verbosity as "mumblecore", first making an impression in the 2008 movie Hannah Takes the Stairs as a would-be playwright with a temporary job in Chicago. Noah Baumbach's parents were writers. Raised in the Manhattan literary world, he was educated at Vassar, the prestigious Ivy League college that went co-educational in 1969, and established himself as a writer-director in 2006 with the semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale. His leading characters both male and female are spiky misfits, deliberately alienating themselves from their families. Although his genre is comedy, laughter isn't always his object.
Gerwig first worked with Baumbach in his 2010 film Greenberg, giving an outstanding performance as a sad Los Angeles dreamer with musical ambitions,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Prolific film director with a reputation for exploring social and moral issues
Sidney Lumet, who has died aged 86, achieved critical and commercial success with his first film, 12 Angry Men (1957), which established his credentials as a liberal director who was sympathetic to actors, loved words and worked quickly. For the bulk of his career, he averaged a film a year, earning four Oscar nominations along the way for best director, for 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).
It is arguable that, had he not been so prolific, Lumet's critical reputation would have been greater. Certainly, for every worthwhile film there was a dud, and occasionally a disaster, to match it. But Lumet loved to direct and he was greatly esteemed by the many actors – notably Al Pacino and Sean Connery – with whom he established a lasting rapport.
The majority of his films were shot not in Hollywood, but in and around New York.
Sidney Lumet, who has died aged 86, achieved critical and commercial success with his first film, 12 Angry Men (1957), which established his credentials as a liberal director who was sympathetic to actors, loved words and worked quickly. For the bulk of his career, he averaged a film a year, earning four Oscar nominations along the way for best director, for 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).
It is arguable that, had he not been so prolific, Lumet's critical reputation would have been greater. Certainly, for every worthwhile film there was a dud, and occasionally a disaster, to match it. But Lumet loved to direct and he was greatly esteemed by the many actors – notably Al Pacino and Sean Connery – with whom he established a lasting rapport.
The majority of his films were shot not in Hollywood, but in and around New York.
- 4/10/2011
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
The La Times has reported that actor Kevin McCarthy passed away on Saturday.
Kevin McCarthy, the veteran stage and screen actor best known for his starring role as the panicked doctor who tried to warn the world about the alien “pod people” who were taking over in the 1956 science-fiction suspense classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, died Saturday. He was 96.
McCarthy died of natural causes at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., said his daughter Lillah.
During a career that spanned more than 70 years, beginning on stage in New York in the late 1930s, McCarthy played Biff Loman opposite Paul Muni’s Willy in the 1949 London production of “Death of a Salesman.” Reprising his role in the 1951 film version opposite Fredric March, he earned a supporting-actor Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe as most promising male newcomer.
McCarthy had appeared in several other films and had a string of...
Kevin McCarthy, the veteran stage and screen actor best known for his starring role as the panicked doctor who tried to warn the world about the alien “pod people” who were taking over in the 1956 science-fiction suspense classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, died Saturday. He was 96.
McCarthy died of natural causes at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., said his daughter Lillah.
During a career that spanned more than 70 years, beginning on stage in New York in the late 1930s, McCarthy played Biff Loman opposite Paul Muni’s Willy in the 1949 London production of “Death of a Salesman.” Reprising his role in the 1951 film version opposite Fredric March, he earned a supporting-actor Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe as most promising male newcomer.
McCarthy had appeared in several other films and had a string of...
- 9/12/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Joanna Smith Rakoff alternately skewers and celebrates a certain type of person in her debut novel, A Fortunate Age. Paying homage to Mary McCarthy’s classic upper-middle-class melodrama The Group, Rakoff follows a clique of post-grads as they settle into New York City in the mid-’90s, and as their political and social ideals are put to the test by the realities of finding jobs, getting married, and having kids. As independent-minded as these young women are, they fall into the same patterns as their parents and grandparents, starting with A Fortunate Age’s well-observed opening scene, which takes place ...
- 5/14/2009
- avclub.com
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