The January 2010 reading journal addresses In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Our Idiot Brother, Filmed Thought, and Jamaica Inn
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Does Philosophy Do Film?
“Clearly you are not a bowler”: Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?
Continue reading...Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”
Why do some works of art age better than others?
Continue reading...Patricia Highsmith’s “Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes”
The promise of unnatural catastrophes turns out not to be catastrophic nor unnatural enough
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