Tag: CG Fewston

by CG FEWSTON November 23, 2013
Non-Fiction

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008) by Robin Wright

”The Constitutional Rebellion of 1905-1911 forced the weak Qajar dynasty to agree to Iran’s first constitution and parliament. Foreshadowing the 1979 revolution, the revolt was launched by the same powerful troika–the clergy, bazaar merchants, and the intelligentsia–that would come together again later in the century. Their goal was to curtail the monarchy’s power.”

by CG FEWSTON November 15, 2013
Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

Techno-Culture and the Future of Education

Immediately there is a question of metaphor in the title itself. ”A day made of glass” has an untold number of connotations. First, glass can either be extremely durable (as advertised in the video) but it can also be fragile. The future itself, as presented in the video, would be in a delicate state, or flux, of durability and destruction.

by CG FEWSTON November 13, 2013
Fiction Pictures

50 Great Short Stories (1952) edited by Milton Crane

The collection starts with a bang with ”The Garden Party” (1922) by Katherine Mansfield and then tumbles its way through some well-known stories that are usually read in high school and college. There’s Hemingway’s ”The Three-Day Blow” (1925), E.M. Forster’s ”The Other Side of the Hedge” (1947), Henry James’s ”Brooksmith” (1892), Rudyard Kipling’s ”The Courting of Dinah Shadd” (1899) and Alexander Poushkin’s ”The Shot” (1894) translated by T. Keane.

by CG FEWSTON November 7, 2013
Fiction Film

Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan

”At first, when she pushed open the door and stepped in, she saw nothing at all. The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood. When she took another few steps she saw them, dark shapes in the furthest corner. “

by CG FEWSTON November 7, 2013
Fiction Pictures

The Open Boat (1897) by Stephen Crane

”The welcome of the land to the men from the sea was warm and generous, but a still and dripping shape was carried slowly up the beach, and the land’s welcome for it could only be the different and sinister hospitality of the grave.”

by CG FEWSTON November 6, 2013
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

Utopian and Dystopian Cultures in Four Short Films

The short film Bendito Machine III consists of a primitive tribe/culture worshiping a higher form of technology that falls from the heavens.

by CG FEWSTON October 27, 2013
Fiction

A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway

“On the days of false spring it was very nice, after boxing and taking a shower, to walk along the streets smelling the spring in the air and stop at a cafe to sit and watch people and read the paper and drink vermouth; then go down to the hotel and have lunch with Catherine.”

by CG FEWSTON October 23, 2013
Fiction Film Pictures Videos

The Sign of Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The mystery begins when Mary Morstan (in Chapter 2) tells Holmes and Watson about the disappearance of her father, Captain Morstan, and the arrival of a pearl each year for six years.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”