By Hitch Go To PostYeah. Sounds interesting but if it requires a lot of knowledge of religious and geographical history I'll bounce right off of it.they made it into a movie with Sean Connery and Christian Slater. If those two knuckleheads could handle it...
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By Hitch Go To PostYeah. Sounds interesting but if it requires a lot of knowledge of religious and geographical history I'll bounce right off of it.Just because Eco was a snooty semiotics professor, it doesn't mean he couldn't write a riveting period detective murder mystery. In fact, the two might've been related.( I'm happy you liked Pentiment this much).
Now, Foucault's Pendulum on the other hand... a bit more demanding imo.
All I know about Umberto Eco is that Chris Remo used to bang on about him on Idle Thumbs all the time
He was one of the most brilliant scholars of the 20th century. If you studied anything related to literature, philosophy or media I'm guessing anywhere after the 60s, but 100% surely between the 80s and the 2000s, every university syllabus was filled with his works and essays, so pretty hard to escape and not bang on about, I imagine know.
He'd just as easily write about classic literature as he'd do about Star Wars or Superman, and he was very insightful when breaking down the reach of mass media and its proliferation of mass culture.
I'd recommend this essay to everyone: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025015.pdf
He'd just as easily write about classic literature as he'd do about Star Wars or Superman, and he was very insightful when breaking down the reach of mass media and its proliferation of mass culture.
I'd recommend this essay to everyone: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025015.pdf
Apropos of the spooky season (sorry if a bit late) here's a recommendation of the best book I've read this month.
Our Share of Night (2019) by Mariana Enriquez, an argentinian writer. Takes place in ~1980s Argentina during the dictatorship. It's a book about a father and his son, and their role inside of a demonic cult and the father's attempts to cut ties with it. It deals with mediums, superstitions and the occult and it goes into chilling detail in a sobering way.
More here:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61111034-our-share-of-night
Our Share of Night (2019) by Mariana Enriquez, an argentinian writer. Takes place in ~1980s Argentina during the dictatorship. It's a book about a father and his son, and their role inside of a demonic cult and the father's attempts to cut ties with it. It deals with mediums, superstitions and the occult and it goes into chilling detail in a sobering way.
More here:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61111034-our-share-of-night
Had this laying around for a while but started reading it a bit, really good insights in Tarantino's experiences watching movies and his critiques.
About 1/3 of the way through but it's an easy recommend.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55922488-cinema-speculation
About 1/3 of the way through but it's an easy recommend.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55922488-cinema-speculation