Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster)'s Blog – January 2012 Archive (2)
The Only Ship, the Only Wreck
Listen, Jena, I want to dig more into the scale of adventure. You know Daniel Defoe was sort of the father of the novel, but J.M. Coetzee's Foe goes after Defoe's best book, exploring the reasons we must tell stories, showing how details keep us speaking and listening.
Before…
ContinueAdded by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on January 31, 2012 at 8:00am — No Comments
Batman and A Tale of Two Cities
Listen, Jena, it turns out Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was a key inspiration for The Dark Knight Rises. Seeing as the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth is this coming February 7, I thought it’d be nice to explore the themes Christopher Nolan might be drawing on.
It’s clear that Gotham explodes with civil unrest in the film. The trailer shows scenes of a wealthy house being raided, the people inside it dragged down the stairs and…
ContinueAdded by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on January 18, 2012 at 7:30am — 4 Comments
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