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After today’s class I naturally ran back home and checked out IMDB for some references of film noir. I never really got anything too good, but then I got to thinking of current pop culture references to 50’s-detective-sherlock-holmesy type icons … Continue reading →

Watching “Yojimbo” for the first time gave me the chance to witness, in my opinion, one of the finest actors of any generation; and for that I am grateful.  This class forces us to strip down films, and analyze parts … Continue reading →

Alright then, so I said I have more to say about The Glass Key. And I do, but, I forgot it. Maybe it’ll come back to me? Probably not, but I’ll leave the possibility open. For now I want to … Continue reading →

“All creativity can be understood as taking in the world as a problem.” I know we already talked this one to death, but I’m feeling the need to explore it further. We explored the nature of the statement, but not … Continue reading →

So as usual, my magnificent blogging ideas have sufficiently dimished since returning home from class because most of them have left my head already (which is sad so because I had such high hopes). I guess the main points that … Continue reading →

I had a really cool moment in class today during our discussion of where Dashiell Hammett (if I spelled that wrong, a thousand apologies) fits in on the scale of literary modernism, the two ends being Virginia Woolf’s theory that … Continue reading →

Here are some memes I found online. Enjoy. Original post by anniek

Yojimbo   The movie (free access) available online, for those who missed the movie, missed part of it, or just want to review it. Select the link under Yojimbo (Stage 6) for the movie! Original post by Amanda

I am copying the handouts from today’s class below: Rules of Love The following set of rules is based on the De Amore of Andreas Capellanus, as adapted in Appendix 1 of Ann S. Haskell’s A Middle English Anthology (Detroit: … Continue reading →

It was a late night last night so I was only able to get through Orientalism and most of that there “The Arabian Nights.” But seeing as how some other intellectual minds have covered “Nights” I’ll just move on to … Continue reading →