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filmfreedonia.com
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| | | | | . Director: Denis VilleneuveScreenwriters: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve By Roderick Heath Two and a half years since the first part of Denis Villeneuve's bifurcated adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic was released, the second comes charging out of the deep desert of current cinema-going, that vast and dread wasteland left to us by Hollywood. The first... | |
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dimitrafimi.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The lecture explores the complex relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and race, focusing on the portrayal of non-human races like the Easterlings and Haradrim. It analyzes how Tolkien's descriptions of these races, influenced by his academic background and the cultural context of his time, reflect both the mythopoeic elements of his work and the racial prejudices of the early 20th century. The lecture also discusses the visual adaptations in Peter Jackson's films, which draw from non-European cultural elements to portray these races, raising questions about the ideological implications of such representations. The discussion culminates in a reflection on the moral and ethical dimensions of war and the dehumanization of enemies, as ... | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More | |
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kennethvennormorris.blogspot.com
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| | | Lament of the Ladies of the Siang River After Yuen I-Shan Sweet-scented are the Kiu-e Mountains, where the white bright spring clouds fly ... | ||
