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Postmodern studies: music
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Leuk 2016: A 10-year spectacle of sound. Yet another spectacular programme. Review. Tibetan peace warrior turns to pop. Not as weird as that sounds. Story. Songs for swinging singers, literally. Pendulum choir: the showstopper of the Leuk 2016 new music festival. Report. Leuk 2013: Celebrating the end of the tune. Leuk's annual festival showed what you can do in music without tunes. Review. Leuk 2014: Now, the end of the instrument? This was the festival with 100 premieres. Review. He blogs at crosslines.
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Mad Men: Which way to the Window?
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Which way is the window? Mad Men, 2007-2012. The Good Wife, 2009-2013. Six seasons after the breathtaking start of. Matthew Weiner's hymn to the psychotic 1960s, it is definitely duller, even though it is more sharply written and confidently filmed. Some people just move forward without our seeing any change in them no matter what happens. Roger Sterling (John Slattery), by contrast, has lifted off into a realm of his own. Even more hilariously misogynistic in his dialogue with women (and tender-hear...
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Postmodern studies: Film: Upstream Color
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A movie with pigs and worms. Available Amazon Instant Video. Written, photographed (in part), directed, produced, co-edited, composed, designed, cast by and starring Shane Carruth. Review by Peter Hulm. Audience empathy or identification with characters onscreen is one of the longest-lasting presumptions of film criticism. But what if you have no idea what is going on in a character's mind, or any one onscreen? And that is the fascination of. His first film released some nine years before. Carruth, a...
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Postmodern studies: Music: The End of Instruments
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Leuk 2014: The end of the instrument. ForumWallis: Festival of New Music. Once you've killed off tunes as not challenging enough to your creativity ( Leuk 2013. Where do you go next? An international festival of new music, pointed the way to an answer: take on the instruments. If you no longer treat your instruments and their traditional sonorities as sacred, you can take advantage of any of the sounds they produce. And once you have taken that step, any object can become a musical instrument. More adven...
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Reviews: Ford Madox Ford "complete"
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Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford. Illustrated), Delphi Classics, 2012. 14093Kb [Kindle Edition, $4.30]. A long way from complete. The Complete Works does not include his Memories and Impressions (e.g. And other non-fiction works such as his biography of Rossetti. Most students of Ford would consider these essential to any full consideration of his place in literary history. Wikipedia's entry on Ford can give you an idea of how much is missing. Nevertheless, here are some of his post-.
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Leuk 2013: Celebrating the death of the tune
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Leuk 2013: Celebrating the death of the tune. It's been a long time coming, but Whitsun 2013 at Leuk Castle was as good a time as any, it seems to me, to celebrate the death of the tune. The burial took place in two concerts, one by a jazz-based Swiss group Le Pot, the other by the Winterthur Theater am Gleis chamber orchestra offering pieces by eight Swiss composers. What's jazz, what's classical? In the circumstances the traditional dividing line between jazz and classical is it improvised? Didn't make...
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Mad Men: Don Draper self-destructs
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Don Draper self-destructs but who cares? Mad Men, 2013, 2014. As an addict of. The Bold and the Beautiful. As much for its schlock and outrageous plotting (i.e. for its qualities rather than quality), I can understand. S slide down the chute of soapiness while still remaining fascinating (rather than exciting) to watch. Season six gives us an office space closer to the glorious opening titles by Imaginary Forces. We are told they are deliberately reminiscent of Saul Bass's work for Alfred Hitchcock.
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Postmodern guides: Genre and the western
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Genre and the Western. Note: this piece makes several references to Internet World Wide Web sites and to commercial CD-ROMS for which there is no standard system of referencing or page numbering possible, even in the case of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Except in the references, I have lower-cased all references to the western, to avoid confusion between Western filmmakers (as distinct from Japanese directors) and western directors (as distinct from comedy filmmakers).]. The appeal of genre. That artist...
