Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "Therese Desqueyroux" by Francois Mauriac
âTherese Desqueyrouxâ was a very strange book because I had felt like I had read similar storylines in the works of Virginia Woolf and other authors of that liking. But, in this case there was darkness looming beneath it. When Therese Desqueyroux fails to poison her husband, she is acquitted of attempted murder and goes free into the world without him. Believing at first that she was the one who did wrong, she looks back on her life with him as the abusive, oppressive overlord and observes the jail that we call marriage as now, a free woman. Only then does she learn to see the world in an increasingly new way. The story is both a celebration of a womanâs freedom and a journey of self-discovery - it wanders and loops in on itself and Therese is there for the ride in its ups and downs. The dark aspect of the story is constantly there and looming - the fact that she tried to kill him. But as you learn more and more about him through her, it becomes apparent that you are no longer angry that she tried, but angry that she did not succeed. It is written in an amazing way with these grotesque images pouring through grand descriptions of France and its cultural landscape, littered with everything that is poetic and beautiful. An excess makes it look almost naturalistically decadent in all the wrong ways.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide: True Crime Cinema
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Kant's Philosophies
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Last Witnesses" by Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievichâs nonfiction novel entitled âLast Witnessesâ is exactly what it states. It is a bunch of recollections by people, now fully grown Russians, about the Nazi German invasion and what they remember of it from their childhood. From losing their parents to bombs dropping, from hiding amongst rubble to losing cherished childhood memories, from losing their own homes to migrating for safety - this book really does explore all the children and their lives that were impacted by war. Many of them not only lost their parents but lost their sense of belonging - they were flung into the midst of the war with no safety net and, as they grew up you get a clear sense that not a single one of them forgot even a slither of memory of what happened in those dark times. Recounting their tales are people from every walks of life, from the pensioners to the hairdressers, the accountants and the philosophers, the linguists and television technicians, the engineers to the chefs and so on. This book explores what it was like to lose your childhood to a war someone else started and how that memory haunts the countryâs youth growing up like a black shadow. Here are some of the most touching quotations that I could see in this text. They were all pretty heartbreaking and I had trouble picking key ones I enjoyed, I hope you like the selection I did choose though.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "American Predator" by Maureen Callahan
In the book âAmerican Predatorâ I think that even though there is a great amount of research and well written extracts to be had in here - there is also a certain amount of laziness with the way in which it has been put together. There is a clear bias in which certain law enforcement officers are looked at as more important in the case than others and there is also a clear dislike for various attorneys on the case. This makes the book very difficult to judge for the crimes of Keyes alone. By now, everyone in our century knows that Keyes was an absolute monster and was thoroughly misinformed about his own intelligence, but I think that there is a certain amount of stuff you have to take with a grain of salt with this book because of the bias within the book. Not only this, but the interviews with Keyes are not really private information if you have heard of the guy before and to assume, in the beginning, that nobody has is a bit presumptuous. It is to assume that your reader is ill-informed about such cases in a âholier than thouâ attempt in true crime. I donât think anyone would really choose to hear about him and wish that they had not.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Punk
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Critiques of Mental Health
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Death at Intervals" by Jose Saramago
âDeath at Intervalsâ is one of the many books I am re-reading by Saramago and I have been really enjoying my relaxation of my first re-reads of Saramago in a long while. Along with this I have re-read âBlindnessâ - my favourite of his, and âThe Gospel According to Jesus Christâ - both of these books are amazing but I have to say, I have not felt the same in a very long time to when I first read âDeath at Intervalsâ some five or six years ago. Thankfully, it was like reading it for the first time, with fleeting similarities and familiarities in experience. The beginning, with all of its abruptness in media res, the style of the writing in all of its tragic passion and then we have the brilliance of this vagrant image which colours the book with the natural landscape, small villages and simple peoples. It is one of those things that I think is a real quality of Saramago and have enjoyed seeing it in his other great works. I have not read everything by Saramago, but from what I have read and re-read I can honest tell that he has a fascination in what happens when you take something very essential to human survival away. In âBlindnessâ Saramago takes away a manâs sight in a sudden act of apparent nothingness, changing the life of the man forever. But in this book we get something more extreme. In âDeath at Intervalsâ we get the whole concept of death being taken away and when it is finally returned, it really is no longer the same. It begs the question about whether someone should know when they are going to die and exactly how much power our own expiration should have over us. I personally believe that there is no way to conquer it and we should settle with what we are dealt with unless avoidable.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Non-Linear Narratives
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Quest for Corvo" by A.J.A Symons
âA Quest for Corvoâ was one of those books that I was really looking forward to reading and I can honestly say that I was not in the least bit disappointed. It was just as good and if not, better, than what I had first imagined. There was definitely a certain amount of trepidation going in since I already knew the book this book was constantly making reference to [âHadrian the Seventhâ by Rolfe] and yet, I had never really given the author a second look. I did not know that this author and the author of âA Quest for Corvoâ were both so interesting with the latter trying to find the other through intense amounts of passionate readings, searchings and research that lasts for the entire book. Through newspaper reports and other journalistic and non-fiction publications, we get an image of this man who was practically lost to literary history until right here and right now. The language is often wrought with passion, defiance and this want and urge to know as much as physically possible whilst also mourning the very strange loss of this author alongside it, almost like it is flowing underneath through the tunnel of the soul of the novel. I cannot describe how much I enjoyed reading this book, split up into sections entitled things such as âThe Problemâ - it gives us a chronological look at what happens when we follow the literary rabbit hole of a strange and estranged author.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Motifs
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the âfilmmakerâs guideâ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Prater Violet" by Christopher Isherwood
âPrater Violetâ is one of those books by Christopher Isherwood that if you like his book âGoodbye to Berlinâ and its writing style then you will probably love this one. I have never been a huge fan of Christopher Isherwood and I have admittedly not read too much by him other than the most popular novels. However, after reading âGoodbye to Berlinâ last year, I have been searching for the authorâs books just like this one and I can honestly say that the closest in its almost romantic writing style is âPrater Violetâ. Even though the latter is more of an autobiographical work and is based on things that actually happened whilst Isherwood was working in the film industry. I think that it still has some resonating factors with the book âGoodbye to Berlinâ in the fact that it is written with absolute passion - and it is rare for me to see that in a book by Christopher Isherwood as it is often cut up and overshadowed by a ton of back and forth dialogue-heavy passages that fail to interact with the reader.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
