Ziad Shihab

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Vertiginous Hauntings: The Ghosts of Vertigo

October 3rd, 2019

Vertiginous Hauntings: The Ghosts of Vertigo. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli & Martine Beugnet - 2019 - Film-Philosophy 23 (3):227-246. While the initial reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was unspectacular, it made its presence felt in a host of other films – from Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, to Brian De Palma's Obsession, and David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.. What seemed to have eluded the critics at the time is that Vertigo is a film about being haunted: by illusive images, turbulent emotions, mot...

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Knights on Marx, Pitt, Paltrow and the dialectic

October 3rd, 2019

Knights on Marx, Pitt, Paltrow and the dialectic IMOGEN WEST-KNIGHTS OCTOBER 1, 2019 Anna Kornbluh MARXIST FILM THEORY AND ‘FIGHT CLUB’ 200pp. Bloomsbury. Paperback, £14.99. Richard Ayoade AYOADE ON TOP 229pp. Faber. £12.99. Lift up the carpet at any sixth form college and students will scuttle out from under it, ready to tell you how deep Fight Club is. Since its release in 1999, David Fincher’s film about two disillusioned men who meet and start an underground fight club has become a cult ...

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tuning hammer - Marcellus

September 28th, 2019

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2tuning hammer(thing)by ApoxyButt Thu Jun 20 2002 at 16:31:17A tuning hammer is the tool used to change the tension on the strings of a piano. It's called a hammer mainly because of its shape. It's a metal rod with a handle. The head of the rod is bent 90 degrees and has a socket wrench-style end. You can get one for around $30 at any good piano dealer. An important note: vice grips or pliers are not a good substitute for tuning hammers. You'l...

Epistemology of Folk Epistemology

September 2nd, 2019

The Epistemology of Folk Epistemology Richard F Kitchener Analysis, Volume 79, Issue 3, July 2019, Pages 521–530, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz042 Published: 10 July 2019 ...

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Drugs, death and documentary ethics - Amazing Johnathan director Ben Berman on his meta-movie | Salon.com

August 21st, 2019

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The intellectual coward. Victor Serge knew the type: playing word games with philosophy

August 19th, 2019

"I often feel like I’m being suffocated in my magnificent desert." So wrote Victor Serge to Dwight Macdonald of his exile in Mexico. For Serge, exile was nothing new; he’d been a persecuted militant for most of his life. But his simultaneous opposition to Stalin and refusal to renounce the revolution left him isolated in the stifling hothouse of the country’s left-wing exile community. Macdonald tried to find Serge publishers in the United States, but with little luck. (Of the editors who rej...

Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'

August 9th, 2019

Forty years since its first release, the director has been reworking his masterpiece for a definitive edition. How does he view his film – and the madness of its making – after all these years? Founded in 1887 by a Finnish sea captain named Gustave Niebaum, Inglenook is a sprawling 1,680-acre winery known as "the Queen of the Napa Valley". The estate contains 280 acres of vineyards, a Queen Anne-style Victorian mansion and a magnificent stone-and-iron chateau, all of which combine to create...