Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison (Inner Circles) Dear friends and readers, My Christmas present from Jim and Izzy (bought by me on their behalf) was the complete set of Prime Suspect seasons, and while I was chuffed to get them, it was not until I opened the box three nights ago now and began to [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Prime Suspect: Jane Tennison’s evolving story & Inner Circles
Posted in 20th century culture, Costume drama, feminism, film studies, Movies, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, womens' films, tagged Helen Mirren, heroine's text, stuart wilson on December 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Boxing Day at the National Gallery : Wiseman & Warhol & Callahan
Posted in modern art, Movies, museums, Seasonal, visual art, tagged Andy Warhol, Frederick Wiseman, The Store on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Neiman Marcus, 2nd floor by escalators at Xmas time Dear Friends and readers, This year we had two minor disappointments. I really thought we’d get to see the new Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. As in the last few years, surely a star studded movie based on a super-famous good book was made to get academy [...]
A serene day to all
Posted in 19th century poetry, Seasonal, women's poetry, tagged RJoyce Heon, Tennyson InMemoriam on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Camille Pissaro, Louvenciennes in Snow (1770s) Dear year-long friends and readers, From the 19th century: Tennyson’s In Memoriam: Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possessed the earth, And calmly fell our Christmas-eve: The yule-clog sparkled keen with frost, No wing of wind the region swept, But [...]
Prime Suspect: Lost Child & Scent of Darkness; Song of Lunch
Posted in 20th century culture, feminism, Movies, mystery-suspense, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, rape, romance, sexual experience, women's art, womens' films, tagged emma thompson, Helen Mirren, heroine's text, Le Carre, Lynda La Plante, Prime Suspect on December 22, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) and Dr Patrick Schofield (Stuart Wilson), Scene of Darkness Dear friends and readers, A third blog on the unusually good police series, Prime Suspect: I’ve now watched The Lost Child, Scent of Darkness , which I want briefly to compare with Christopher Reid and Niall MacCormack’s Song of Lunch, a more [...]
“‘What are men to rocks and mountains?’” The content of Ann Radcliffe’s Landscapes
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, gothic, listserve life, Margaret Oliphant, novels of sensibility, painting, Poetry, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Ann Radcliffe, Beatrice Battaglia, book illustrations, heroine's text on December 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840), Man and Woman [?] Gazing at the Moon (1819) My friendly (and kind) readers, Will I hope remember last week I told of how I had come to decide to fulfill a long-held desire, to write a paper where I would have to gaze at, study, write about the landscapes of [...]
Watch what these primates do: Frederick Wiseman — with framing from Trollope, Agree, Montgomery
Posted in 20th century culture, film studies, medicine, politics, science, Trollope, tagged animal rights, Frederick Wiseman, primate on December 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, I have been given pause what we should call ourselves. Last night I watched the most horrifying film I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen some horror. It’s a 1974 Frederick Wiseman film called Primate where he filmed the people or scientists who “do” science at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in [...]
An enhanced humane Gounod’s Faust: Another HD opera
Posted in 20th century culture, feminism, French culture, Met HDOperas, Music, opera, politics, sexual experience, Theater, tagged Faust, Gounod, Jenufa, Marina Poplavskaya on December 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Valentin (Russell Braun) is murdered in a duel he insisted on having with Faust; he curses his sister, Marguerite (Marina Poplavskaya) as he lays dying Dear friends and readers. Score yet another triumph for the Met this season: an enhanced humane Gounod’s Faust. I had read that the reviews of this new production were unfavorable, [...]
Maggie Mahar’s Money-Driven Medicine: First, make a profit! the new Hippocrates’ oath
Posted in 20th century culture, medicine, politics, tagged drug companies, hospitals, medical insurance, physicicans on December 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, A final blog of notes and links on an important book I read with my students this term: Mahar’s Money-Driven Medicine. This remarkable book should be required reading for all adult Americans. Preface: Her achieved goal to tell the story of health care in the US through the eyes of doctors, [...]
In which I tell of a disappointment and how I’m overcoming it: Radcliffe replaces Trollope
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, book illustration, Conferences, Film adaptations, Italian culture, novels of sensibility, Trollope, visual art, tagged Battaglia, picturesque art on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“‘Is it the poorhouse, yer honor?’”, Rod Walter’s illustrations: Storytelling through Pictures for Castle Richmond or? Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (1712-74), Landscape with Bridge Gentle readers, good friends, I’m afraid I have another rejection from the Victorian &/or Trollope academic scholars to tell about. My proposal for a coming NVSA conference in spring 2001, a highly [...]
