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 »
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 [...]
Atul Gawande: realities of medicine hidden and mostly misunderstood
Posted in 20th century culture, medicine, men's memoirs, science, tagged Atul Gawande on December 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, Another blog where I’m turning my lecture notes into a blog for my students and in the hope other readers involved in some aspect of medicine (and which of us is not?) will find them of interest. I begin with Gawande’s Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, his introduction, [...]
EC/ASECS conference on liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: enslaved families; professional women, Priestley, the Paterno library
Posted in 18th century, America 18thcentury, conference report, Conferences, feminism, library books, Plays, Poetry, politics, science, Slavery, Theater, women's novels, tagged Elizabeth Farren, elizabeth inchbald, enslaved women, gambling as liberty, heroine's text, hester thrale piozzi, mary wells, Susannah Centivre on November 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The family broken up in a slave auction Dear friends and readers, I continue my report of the fine conference (East Central Region meeting of ASECS at Penn State) centering on the concept of liberty in the long 18th century. Over the course of three days, there emerged a developing definition for different groups of [...]
Steve Olson’s Mapping Human History: how we came to look and live the way & where we do now
Posted in 20th century culture, science, tagged class lecture, evolution on October 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The excavation of Herculaneum, 18th century print He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddhartha. Instead he saw other faces, many faces, a long series, a continuous stream of faces – hundreds, thousands, which all came and disappeared and yet all seemed to be there at the same time, which all continually changed [...]
