Film mother and daughter, walking and talking Dear Friends and readers, ON this Memorial Day Weekend in the US and Bank Holiday in the UK (and very hot it is today), yesterday afternoon Izzy and I went to see our third (at least) movie by Holofcener: Please Give. We’ve seen and enjoyed very much Lovely [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Please Give by Nicole Holofcener: in which acts of kindness beat out acts of meanness
Posted in feminism, women's art, womens' films, tagged friends with money, James Schamus, lovely and amazing, nicole holofcener, please give on May 31, 2010 | 8 Comments »
ASECS, Albuquerque: Film Studies/Avoiding Erasure of Women’s Literary History/Race a cultural not biological construct/self-parodying theater
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Austen, Fanny Burney, feminism, Film adaptations, film studies, political novels/films, Theater, women's memoirs, tagged race theory on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Olivia Williams as Jane Austen, writing Emma (Miss Austen Regrets, Ch 3) Dear friends and readers, This is the second of two conference reports on the ASECS conference I attended this past spring. You have ahead of you brief records of a session on “The Eighteenth Century on Film,” and of the titles of the [...]
ASECS, Albuquerque: epistolary, gothic, violent, and landscape novels (from Riccoboni & LaClos to Scott & Stael’s Corinne)
Posted in 18th century novels, conference report, Conferences, feminism, French culture, French novels, gothic, novels of sensibility, suzy mckee charnas, women's memoirs, women's novels, tagged clarissa, corinne, germaine de stael, Walter Scott on May 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Olivia Williams as Jane Austen in quiet creative reverie (Gwyneth Hughes and Anne Pivcevic, Miss Austen Regrets 2008) Dear Friends and readers, You see above my new avatar for my “Reveries under the Sign of Austen” blog. I’ve put a copy on the wall of my room too. It pictures a mood I wish I [...]
Mary Smith, schoolmistress and governess; autobiographer, poet and journalist-reporter (1822-1889)
Posted in 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Anne Bronte, feminism, Film adaptations, Foremother Poetry, Margaret Oliphant, women's memoirs, women's novels, tagged cranford, jane eyre, jane fairfax, kathryn hughes, mary smith on May 16, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Mary Smith (Lisa Dillon), invented character from 2008 Cranford Chronicles Dear friends and readers, A couple of months ago I read Kathryn Hughes’s moving sterling account The Victorian Governess, Cover based on painting, The Governess by Richard Redgrave (1840), and there encountered Mary Smith (1822-1889) who wrote an autobiography of herself; I was so engaged [...]
Pallisers 12:26: Retrospective
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, political novels/films, Trollope, Uncategorized on May 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Susan Hampshire as Lady Glen realizing no one will help her not marry Plantaganet Palliser and that on her own she cannot withstand the pressure to marry him (1:1) Dear friends and readers, This will be my last Palliser film blog for now. It’s a commentary on 12:26 (how the Duchess died and yet remained [...]
Pallisers 12:26: How the Duchess died and her story was righted in Mary’s apparent destiny
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, film studies, political novels/films, Trollope, tagged kate nicholls, pallisers on May 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Standing next to the Duchess’s (Susan Hampshire) portrait, with a glimpse of the windows beyond which is the grave, Mary (Kate Nicholls asks her father why he wants to make her miserable for the rest of her life) Dear friends and readers, So I come to the end of a three-year journey. The first time [...]
Pallisers 12:25: The Duke and his son; parents and their adult children
Posted in 19th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, political novels/films, Trollope, tagged Jeremy Irons, pallisers on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Duchess (Susan Hampshire), having painfully made her way to her mirror, looks at old photos. Archetypal motif for women in later life, last seen by me in Bergman’s Saraband Dear Friends and readers, Two days ago I resumed my journey through the 26 part 1974 BBC Palliser series, with a summary, commentary and transcripts from [...]
