Category Archives: Documentary
September 29, 2011 Educating the Daily Mail
Caulorlime watches a real British hero in action and is dismayed by the press response Regular readers (hi, Dave) will be aware that I don’t really like much. My longer pieces for this blog tend to consist of me ranting about one of the many things that have annoyed me. I write pseudonymously because the [...]
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September 2, 2011 2011: A Film Odyssey
Philip Concannon previews More4′s history of film and cinematic innovation “At the end of the 1800s, a new art form flickered in to life. It looked like our dreams.” The Story of Film is a story told through moments; images thematically linked to tell us how this art form, created by inventors and visionaries in [...]
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July 21, 2011 Looking Back into Darkness: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah
By Philip Concannon Simon Srebnik should have died in 1945. As a teenager, Srebnik was a prisoner at the Chelmno extermination camp, where he managed to stay alive thanks to his agility and melodious singing voice, both of which pleased the SS guards. Two days before the Soviet troops arrived, the guards began killing all [...]
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April 19, 2011 Doctors vs prophets
by Neil Hargreaves I failed to make it past the introduction to Edward Said’s Orientalism when I first encountered it at University. Since then I have fingered and then abandoned more than one copy in second-hand bookshops, telling myself that I would need to make time for it one day. A couple of months ago [...]
Tags: Edward Said, Orientalism
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