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Cultural essays and fiction about culture and fiction and everything in between.
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Contempt, Commercial Culture & Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (opens the original)
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“A tragedy is not profound unless the poet imagines the crime—and thus imagining it, he symbolically commits it. Similarly, in so far as the audience participates in the imaginings, it also participates in the offense.”—Kenneth Burke“Immortal Judah lives, and Greece immortal lives, in a couple of poems.”—Walt WhitmanThanks for reading Discursions! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subsc
Clothed in the Sun: Michael Mann's Manhunter at 40 (opens the original)
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In terms of pure film, Michael Mann`s Manhunter is probably the best of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. It is a shame that is not as celebrated as its successors, Jonathan Demme`s overrated Silence of The Lambs and Ridley Scott`s over-hyped Hannibal, though it is not without its champions, like Variety critic Owen Gleiberman. Unfortunately, there is an i
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