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...allowing her to act in plays in New Delhi. By 18, studying and performing at university in the Indian capital, Nair was applying to every U.S. college she could think of, already displaying the resolve and energy that would mark her life. Mamdani describes film as Nair's ideal medium. "Mira often says she left documentaries for fiction because she got tired of waiting for things to happen." The role of the headstrong itinerant is not without a price, however. Time and again, Nair returns on screen to themes of displacement and immigration, the ache of exile. "The parallels between...
...July 19], then Moore should surely have testified before the properly constituted bipartisan 9/11 commission, where his claims would have been thoroughly investigated and tested, along with the testimony of 1,200 other witnesses. But rather than face such scrutiny, Moore appears to have chosen to use the powerful medium of film to exploit a gullible audience, possibly hoping that his assertions would be swallowed by a majority - at least for a time. The net result of his film could be the end of unity in the fight against terrorism. Was that, perhaps, Moore's intention? John A. Arkcoll Lilydale...
Spiegelman's first book, Breakdowns (1977; now out of print), collected early works that used the medium's history to wildly play with the form. One series of strips took a single melodramatic panel of a 50's romance comic and extended the lines past the border, recontextualizing the scene in various, absurd speculations. Comprised of ten broadsheet-size strips by Spiegelman with an addendum of selected turn of the century newspaper strips, In the Shadow of No Towers takes a similar, (co)mixed-up approach. Any one of Spiegelman's pages will use a multiplicity of styles to simultaneously...
...Though it may be brief, In the Shadow of No Towers synthesizes Art Spiegelman's incomparable talents for personal history and comix theory into a timely and unique work of art. Using the medium's past to explore new kinds of expression, the book captures the visual experimentation of the old strips and updates them to modern times. What a treat to see Spiegelman back in his element. Let us hope it doesn?t take another atrocity to keep him going...
...Film, especially for those under 35, is the medium through which we get our primary stories, our myths, our read on reality," says Robert K. Johnston, professor of theology and culture at the Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of the newly published Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith. It was members of that generation, says Johnston, who "even if they loved God, were simply not going to church. Clergy are realizing that unless we reorient how we talk about our faith, we will lose the next generation." He sees movies as modern parables that connect...