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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Classics</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/classics/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14225</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14225#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:33:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[identity crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liam Neeson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14225</guid> <description><![CDATA[Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole plot hinges on whether or not someone is who they claim to be. The quest for identity, whether inwardly or outwardly direction, may lead to all manner of obsession, danger, and mischief.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14225/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13205</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13205#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brighton Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gangster movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Hurt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Attenborough]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rowan Joffé]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rown Joffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Riley]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his debut, he has selected an auspiciously high-profile story. <em>Brighton Rock</em>, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13205/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12937</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12937#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:46:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bad movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[best movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[I Love You Phillip Morris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie title]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie titles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North by Northwest]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12937</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it is based on a very subtle detail in the story, which only becomes clear after multiple viewings. Sometimes a flaw in the film's execution simply fails to bring out the significance of the title. And sometimes movies just have stupid titles. This week, William Bibbiani and I (Dan Fields) meditate upon the sticky subject of Movie Naming.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12937/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12538</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12538#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children Of Paradise]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic French film]]></category> <category><![CDATA[French film]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jacques Prevert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marcel Carne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies french]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies nostalgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pantomime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theatre]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12538</guid> <description><![CDATA[A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse them, disgust them, terrify them, or in all too many cases bore them. One thing only a handful of films can do is inspire wonder. Every once in a while, a winning combination of writer, director, designers, composers and cast meet in perfect harmony. Such, I feel, is the case of Marcel Carné's 1945 epic romance, <em>Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)</em>.
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isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12373</guid> <description><![CDATA[It's almost Halloween, folks! Aren't we supposed to be having fun? Rather than dwell further on the shortcomings of modern horror, we salute the spirit of the campfire tale, the ghost story, and the urban legend in this nostalgic look at great horror stories in film and television. Join me - Dan Fields - and my fellow campers Julia Rhodes and William Bibbiani, as we pass the flashlight and torch a few marshmallows.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12373/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12251</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12251#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:38:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1900s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1910s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1920s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boris Pasternak]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Lean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Doctor Zhivago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russian Revolution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Silver Age]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12251</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the Bolsheviks on the grave of Tsarist Russia. Where Zhivago questions his every deed from the standpoint of conscience, left-wing leaders like Lara’s husband, Pasha Antipov, who styles himself as Strelnikov or “Shooter,” kill without blinking or thinking.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12251/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>History of Madness by Michel Foucault</title><link>http://calitreview.com/247</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/247#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:17:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>James Hollis</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/08/08/history-of-madness-by-michel-foucault/</guid> <description><![CDATA[By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and physical restraints in order to correct their aberrant attitudes or behaviors.   Many of these souls were chained as animals in appalling conditions which would get us convicted if we treated our dogs similarly today.  Such unfortunates included those convicted of debauchery, crime, and sexual license “where reason was the slave of desire and a servant of the heart.”  (I suppose all of us would require sequestration under those criteria).]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/247/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Denial of Death by Ernest Becker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/116</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/116#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:37:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denial of Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ernest Becker]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/denial-of-death-by-ernest-becker/</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The same creature that names himself, imagines, explores and speculates is in the end, food for insects.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/116/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Collector by John Fowles</title><link>http://calitreview.com/113</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/113#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:20:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/the-collector-by-john-fowles/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge of things. He would emerge now and again to play the part of the cantankerous recluse, but he was, in essence a private, even hermetic man.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/113/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>37</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fahrenheit 451: Avatar of the New Man</title><link>http://calitreview.com/34</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/34#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:22:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Pedro Blas Gonzalez</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dystopian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ray Bradbury]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/fahrenheit-451-avatar-of-the-new-man/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Francois Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 begins with a striking narration of the film’s credits. The premise is simple: talk becomes the natural medium in an illiterate state. When the firemen, that is, the book burners, arrive at a high rise with orders to burn books we are immediately struck by the stark and vulgar aesthetics of the buildings that are so typical in totalitarian countries – globs of spiritless, unimaginative, state-commissioned modernism.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/34/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
