Music and brass: La vie est belle
The University of Louisville kicked off the 2012 - 2013 Postcolonial Film Series today with La vie est belle (Life Is Rosy, 1987). Not knowing a lot about African film--or…
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The University of Louisville kicked off the 2012 - 2013 Postcolonial Film Series today with La vie est belle (Life Is Rosy, 1987). Not knowing a lot about African film--or…
Trajan's Arch, a novel by Michael Williams, is one of those rare contemporary works that deliver a "literary" experience while still offering a large portion of unpretentious fun. It may not…
BlackWyrm Publishing--the company that released Michael Williams's recent novels Trajan's Arch (2010) and Vine (2012) as well as many other compelling works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction--has signed my…
response to class discussion of the French experimental film "Le Ballet Mecanique" (1924) For the last couple of years, I've been inching toward acceptance of the so-called "experimental" tradition in…
a response to RiffTrax's presentation of the film Manos: The Hands of Fate Figure 1: DVD image for Manos At least in my own mind, for years I've been at…