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Maggie's plan : based on a story by Karen Rinaldi
\"Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However, she meets John (Ethan Hawke), an attractive, older university professor, caught in an unhappy marriage, and they start a relationship. Maggie's rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife, the domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard (Julianne Moore). The film moves forward three years and the couple have married and settled down with a daughter together. Everything has gone according to Maggie's plan, so why isn't she happy? And what sort of meddlesome scheme will she concoct next? Maggie's Plan, based on an unpublished novel by Karen Rinaldi, is both an affectionate send-up of highbrow academic culture and a treatise on modern self-realization. Rebecca Miller exhibits her characteristic sensitivity to female experience, but with a playfulness given freer rein than ever before in her work.\" --Back cover.
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The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts
The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors associated with the so-called Berlin School, perhaps Germany's most important contemporary filmmaking movement. Christoph Hochhäusler, the movement's keenest spokesperson, stated that the Berlin School, despite what the label suggests, is not a specifically German phenomenon. All over the world there are filmmakers exploring related terrain. In response to this transnational turn, editors Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher have assembled a group of scholars who examine global trends and works associated with the Berlin School. The goal of the collection is to understand the Berlin School as a fundamental part of the series of new wave films around the globe, especially those from the traditional margins of world cinema. For example, Michael Sicinski and Lutz Koepnick explore the relation of the Berlin School to cinema of Southeast Asia, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-liang; Ira Jaffe and Roger Cook take a look at Middle Eastern film, with Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Abbas Kiarostami, respectively. The volume, however, also includes essays engaging with North American filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Derek Cianfrance as well as European auteurs like Antonioni, Tarr, Porumboiu, McQueen, and the Dardennes. Bringing German cinema into dialogue with this series of global cinemas emphasizes how the Berlin School manifests-whether aesthetically or thematically, politically or historically-a balancing of national particularity with global flows of various sorts. Abel and Fisher posit that since the vast majority of the films are available with English subtitles (and at times also in other languages) and recent publications on the subject have established critical momentum, this exciting filmmaking movement will continue to branch out into new directions and include new voices. The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts folds German-language cinema back into conversations with international as well as transnational cinema. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of German and global cinema.
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Censorship, Artistic Freedom, and Shakespeare Restored Reimagining Ing K.'s Censor Must Die as a Thai Hamlet
This article discusses Thai director Ing K.’s Censor Must Die (2014), a documentary that portrays her efforts to overturn the Thai government’s banning of her film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, titled Shakespeare Must Die (2012). Though the latter work remains banned as of 2023, this article demonstrates that Censor Must Die may be “read” and interpreted as a Shakespeare film as well, specifically as a dystopian Hamlet and sequel to Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet 2000. While Hamlet 2000 depicts the struggles of individual artists against postmodern entities such as “the System” or “the State” through the figure of Prince Hamlet, Censor Must Die dials this concern to its extreme by documenting censorship against artists not in the realm of fiction but in the “real world” of current events that can influence the production and distribution of art in the first place. In this way, Censor Must Die may be said to have a place in the tradition of Shakespearean adaptations, yet it also suggests the potential end or logical terminus of this tradition due to state-sanctioned assaults on artistic freedom. In offering such a reading, this article attempts to restore a semblance of Shakespeare in Ing K.’s work against the grain of Thai government censors and implicitly raises the question of to what extent Shakespeare’s corpus intersects with and may help to frame, reimagine, and bear witness to international current events.
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Soulmate
Featuring unforgettable performances from Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun, who made history by tying for \"Best Actress\" at the most prestigious Chinese language film award, Soulmate portrays the decades-spanning friendship between Qiyue and Ansheng, two disparate women who both struggle to find positions for their real selves within the modern world. This poignant, intelligent and honest drama is a heartfelt tribute to everyone's best girl friend and an accurate capture of the evolving gender role in fast-changing urban China.
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V.F. Perkins and television
There is a correlation, beginning roughly at the start of the twenty-first century, between the sustained resurgence of interest in V.F. Perkins' critical legacy and a turn in Television Studies towards some of the methods and approaches also found within his work. Here, Walters examines the ways in which the work of Perkins can usefully inform our understanding and appreciation of television drama. He also explores the extent to which our appreciation of television's special characteristics can be enriched by evaluating some of its qualities in the context of Perkins' scholarship.
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The Virtual Tempest, Digital Caliban and Robotic Ariel in the Trans-Created Toufann: A Mauritian Fantasy by Dev Virahsawmy
Shakespeare has always been the source of inspiration to the generations all over the world stage. Toufann by Dev Virahsawmy is one such piece of clone. The world has taken a drastic turn in the 21st century. Digitalisation is the only normal in abnormality of the millennials with the upsurge of 'technology' as the 'spear' of Shakespeare and 'network' a 'villain' as Prospero creating 'magic' and 'illusion' in our lives. 'Virtual' has become 'real' and real has taken a backseat in the heaven called 'home'. In this techno-savvy, digital, virtual world; it is imperative for the 'Humanities' to adapt the new normal. Toufann is one such child of this techno-renaissance playwright Dev Virahsawmy, a Mauritian playwright creating a 'tempest' by virtual slides on computer.Caliban is no more looked as black, beast, filthy or low born; he is a smart, handsome, creative, technical man with a heart already lost to Cupid's bow. Miranda is a feminist; reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex pregnant with Kalibann's child. Ariel is a Robot; now emotionless, mechanical and artificial. Ferdinand is infertile, fickle minded and wants the companionship of Robot Ariel. The present paper will discuss the techno aspect of the play in detail with the tinge of focus on the turns of events in the neo-millennials.
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CHARACTERISATION AND THEATRICALITY IN KING LEAR OF THE STEPPES: THE REWRITING OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN CLASSIC
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the rewriting of King Lear, the Shakespearean classic, as it appears in Ivan Turgenev’s novella King Lear of the Steppes, published in 1870. In order to study this case of appropriation in Russian literature, which was received with skepticism by many of his contemporaries and forgotten for a long time, the focus is placed on two fundamental aspects: characterisation and theatricality. These two features connect Turgenev’s work with the source text and exemplify how adaptation and appropriation function within target cultural systems. Far from being a mere literary experiment, the appropriation of some of Shakespeare’s characters in Turgenev’s works and their use as literary archetypes was based on ideological reasons that would influence the evolution of nineteenth-century Russian thought. The present research highlights the importance of processes of rewriting, such as adaptation and appropriation, for the development oftarget cultural systems and, in order to do so, the perspective of adaptation studies is adopted.
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The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is one of the world's most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating analysis of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his stage plays and the films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a resource for students and practitioners it is unrivalled, providing an authoritative and enquiring approach to his work that moves beyond the tired discussions of national identity to offer a comprehensive critical exploration. Patrick Lonergan provides a detailed analysis of each of his plays and films, their original staging, critical reception, and the connections within and between the Leenane Trilogy, the Aran Islands plays and more recent work. It includes an interview with Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company, and offers four critical essays on key features of McDonagh's work by leading international scholars: Joan Dean, Eamonn Jordan, Jose Lanters and Karen O'Brien. A series of further resources including a chronology, glossary, notes on McDonagh's use of language and a list of further reading makes this the perfect companion to one of the most exciting dramatists writing today.
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Critique, Dialogue, and Action
In recent decades, the museum world has devoted time and resources to studying the opinions and actions of their visitors; however, it is much more difficult to access perspectives of a more general public that includes non-visitors. This article situates popular visual culture as a form of engagement between museum professionals and the public. By analyzing the museum scene of the Marvel Studios movie Black Panther , as well as responses to it, and then contextualizing these within the history and current events of the museum field, I identify ways in which popularly received visual culture can spur change in other cultural industries—creating productive critiques that can evolve into impactful dialogue and action to model responsive research and more inclusive museum practices.
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Crosscurrent
A Berlinale Silver Bear winner from master cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (In the Mood for Love, The Assassin), this mysterious, sublime and elegiac odyssey blends breathtaking images of the river that has nurtured Chinese civilization with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex universe. From the spinning Shanghai metropolis to snow-capped Tibet mountains, Gao Chun steers a cargo up the Yangtze and comes across a reversely aging woman named An Lu at every port recorded in a poetry book. He wonders whether she is supernatural or he is traveling back in time. After passing a pagoda that reverberates Buddha's voice, a flooded town reappeared elsewhere and the grandiose Three Gorges Dam, he finally arrives at the start of the river and unveils the secret of his past and An Lu.
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