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Reflections on British Cinema and Identity: From New Wave to New Wyrd
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Defining wyrd
In my book I draw a link between the music of the Old Weird America and the cinema of New Weird Britain. This requires some qualification.
One means of making cultural distinctions between the US and the UK has been to change the spelling of ‘weird’ to ‘wyrd’. In books, fables and films associated to British folklore, the alternative spelling "wyrd" is often preferred. Adam Scovell titled an essay Read more of this blog post »
One means of making cultural distinctions between the US and the UK has been to change the spelling of ‘weird’ to ‘wyrd’. In books, fables and films associated to British folklore, the alternative spelling "wyrd" is often preferred. Adam Scovell titled an essay Read more of this blog post »
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| 166 characters are in post death limbo - the most famous of whom is young Willie, son of Abraham Lincoln. A long sad eternity - a chorus of suffering and lamenting which I, as a reader, shared only insomuch as I found the structure of the novel both ...more | |
“Like the sinister creatures that hide in basements or the demons that lurk in dark woodlands, shadowy forces constantly threaten to lure the goodness out and let the evil in. Calls for more stringent rules and a tightening of regulations are understandable and inevitable but the weight of evidence shows that the scary monsters and super creeps are already ‘out there’ in the world. Movies are mirror visions of the terror, not the cause.”
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“Casting actors in movies on talent alone regardless of skin colour may be motivated by the best of intentions but this practice has two main drawbacks. The first is that it compromises stories that are explicitly about race. If skin colour is presented as an unproblematic ‘norm’ then there can never be a convincing point of tension over this issue. Secondly, this kind of casting renders a story inaccurate from a socio-historical perspective. It undermines any ‘truth’ a film wants to convey because racism is effectively erased from the historical record.”
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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.”
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“If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Writing is a craft like any other. It must be learnt from the masters, pursued with dedication and practised daily, until your fingers blister, your back hunches, your eyesight starts to dim.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
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