![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() viii, (4), 596, b/w photographs, “Meredith (In the Name of Apartheid) can’t match the inimitable voice of Mandela’s 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. He can portray President Mandela’s mix of stately wisdom, indecisiveness, indulgence toward comrades and stirring symbolic leadership.” Moreover, on the weakest area in Mandela’s own book (the time since his release from prison), Meredith has the advantage. He also gives a greater glimpse of the personal Mandela?a harsh disciplinarian toward his children who has nevertheless been indulgent toward his second wife, Winnie, whose imperiousness and suspected criminal behavior he refused to criticize after his release from prison in 1990. But Meredith’s broader mission allows him to provide more perspective and background on Mandela’s comrades in the African National Congress (ANC). All the events?trials, protests, prison negotiations?are here. But this book is a welcome complement to that work, as the author capably synthesizes a broad range of written sources and interviews, providing a more judicious?if less heartfelt?portrait of Mandela’s rich life. ![]()
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![]() Reader beware-you’re in for a scare! GoodReads Amazon Or change into terrifying creatures when the moon is full. But Grady knows his dog is just a regular old dog. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds.Įveryone thinks Grady’s new dog is responsible. Something really horrible.It started with the strange howling at night. There’s something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. I read a number of the Goosebumps series as a kid (I don’t recall reading this one), and love 90’s nostalgia, so I gave this a go. With grad school in full effect, I’m focusing on more lighter, simpler reads these days, so this was an easy choice from what was available at my library. ![]() ![]() This time I read Goosebumps #`14, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp by R.L. Boo!Īnywho, I’m back again with another book review! How was your weekend? Hope you took some time to do some fun things! My car’s in the shop so I pretty much stayed in, being stranded at my apartment and all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (2) The discussion that follows looks at how three cinematographic adaptations of Valle-Inclán's dramatic works portray a particular segment of rural and urban Spanish society through the lens of Valle-Inclán's particular form of protest, the esperpento. The spectator is often so immersed in this fictionalized reality that he or she forgets that the film text also represents the cultural specifics and values of a given society. Stock plots are created and narratives developed that imitate a reality that appeals to the dreams, aspirations, and fears of its viewers. (1) On the other hand, the classical realist film represents a genre that sets out to construct a world of fiction. ![]() The documentary purports to represent an unfiltered, non-fictionalized reality, although it carefully chooses and edits those segments of filmed scenes that support a given thesis. Film has the power to capture in images both an original verbal narrative text and the history and cultural life of a given society, ranging from the smallest detail in a close-up shot-the engraving of an initial on a piece of silver-to the wide panoramic shot of an epic battle scene. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Great attention has been paid to setting, dialog and character. Set in the sixteenth century Tudor court of Henry VIII, the book is reputedly Mark Twain's most carefully plotted novel. From here, adventure begins for both of them!įirst published in 1881, The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain is the famous American writer and humorist's first foray into historical fiction. Edward is fascinated by the free and unfettered life that Tom leads, while Tom is overawed by the wealth and luxury of the palace. The Prince is Edward, long awaited heir of the monarch, Henry VIII, while the vagrant is Tom Canty, the son of a thief and a beggar. Here the two boys sup alone and are stunned to discover that they bear a startling resemblance to each other. However, the young royal stops them and invites the vagrant to the palace. He ventures too close and is caught and beaten by the Prince's guards. A poor young boy from the slums of London watches a royal procession pass, with the youthful Prince of Wales riding at its head. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jean Coulter acted as Dee Wallace’s stunt double and was performing a scene alongside a trained dog named Cubby, who’d been taught to lurch forward whenever Coulter lunged towards him. Church: Which Evil Stephen King Animal Is a Better Villain For example, the dogs' wagging tails had to be tied down with fishing line to stop them from looking too happy on-screen, but there was also a rather serious injury that happened to stunt actress Jean Coulter when a dog accidentally bit off the tip of her nose. ![]() Bernards themselves seemed to enjoy the experience of performing in Cujo, overall, though being difficult-to-train dogs, there were some mishaps and accidents. Additionally, for some of the more involved scenes, stuntman Gary Morgan performed these scenes wearing a dog suit to keep both the dogs and the actors safe. So, for the scenes in which Cujo rams his head into the car window in an attempt to break through, a mechanical dog and dog head were used. Of course, there were scenes in the film that required the dogs to perform tasks deemed too dangerous or difficult for the actual dog actors to carry out. ![]() |