Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Uttered in the original story, in the 1988 version and now again in 2012 Holmes (Jeremy Brett) comforting the rescued Miss Stapleton (found on stairwell beneath great house, 1988 The Hound [...]
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A new Sherlock (cont’d): ensemble camp art
Posted in 20th century culture, Costume drama, Film adaptations, film studies, gothic, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, rape, satire, science, tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, Camp art, Jeremy Brett, John Watson, sherlock holmes on May 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Maureen Corrignan’s Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading & Stevie Smith on the 12 Dancing Princesses
Posted in 20th century culture, American literature, feminism, George Eliot, girls books, gothic, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, novels of sensibility, teaching, Winston Graham, women's novels, women's art, tagged Bobbie Ann Mason, Girl Sleith, heroine's text, jane eyre, Little Women, Maureen Corrigan, portrait of a lady, Stevie Smith on April 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Woman reading, artist or photographer unknown Dear friends and readers, The title may be off-putting, but Corrigan’s book is an inspiriting book to read in the dark near-dawn hours of a spring into summer morning, one intended to keep the reader company in her journeys with others through books. Corrigan writes of reading as intense [...]
Maggie Wadey’s Precious Bane out of Mary Webb’s novel, featuring Janet McTeer & John Bowe
Posted in 19th century novels, 20th century culture, disability issues, Disabilty studies, Elizabeth Gaskell, Film adaptations, film studies, gothic, political novels/films, romance, women's novels, women's art, womens' films, tagged drama, Hardy, heroine's text, Janet McTeer, Lawrence, Mary Webb, Poldark, prue sam, Stella Gibbons on March 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Janet McTeer as Prue Sarn and John Bowe as Kester Woodseaves (1989 BBC Precious Bane) Dear friends and readers, I watched this powerful two-hour film last night, partly because I’ve had it so long and it has Janet McTeer in the star role, the disabled heroine. We read and discussed Mary Webb’s Precious Bane and [...]
Prime Suspect 7: Full Circle
Posted in 20th century culture, gothic, history play, men's memoirs, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, Theater, tagged current-events, hatred of women, Helen Mirren, heroine's text, jane tennison, Prime Suspect, society on March 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Helen Mirren, final shots: walking quietly away from a lifetime of work Dear friends and readers, I have now watched this last mini-series (two episodes of well over an hour each) and found it did not disappoint. The final act shows Jane Tennison understandably faltering before her own need for companionship with a girl as [...]
Charles Dickens and Sandy Welch’s Our Mutual Friend: A book of a river
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, 20th century culture, About this blog, autism, Autobiographical, Charles Dickens, gothic, political novels/films, politics, rape, tagged Our Mutual Friend, Sandy Welch on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Filmic rendition in Welch’s movie of the famous opening scenes of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: opening shot of movie; Lizzie (Keeley Hawes) at center; John Harmon (Steven Mackintosh) back from the dead and drowned the last Dear friends and readers, Over the past 10 weeks I’ve been listening to Mil Nicolson (Librivox) read aloud Dickens’s [...]
“‘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 [...]
Prime Suspect 2 & 3: The Walking Wounded
Posted in 20th century culture, film studies, gothic, men's memoirs, mystery-murder book, political novels/films, rape, women's art, womens' films, tagged Helen Mirren, heroine's text, police procedural, Prime Suspect on October 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Jimmy Jackson (David Thewlis), Prime Suspect 3 Dear friends and readers, This blog may be read as a continuation of my blogs on Lynda LaPlante’s Prime Suspect (1), starring Helen Mirren, and “New hook-up culture another name for “old” casual encounter. In the first I showed the first mini-series was feminist, progressive, advanced ideas of [...]
