Public mythsof evil are framed by theprivate mythologies of innocence, developed in two earlier films, Ludwig (1972,two hours twenty minutes) andKarl May—In Search ofParadise Lost(1974, three hours), which Syberberg treatsas the first ...
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
From the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award.
WHAT TO DO with such knowledge as photographs bring of faraway suffering? People are often unable to take in the sufferings of those close to them. (A compelling document on this theme is Frederick Wiseman's film Hospital.) ...
Includes the full-texts of four works from the author, political activist and feminist including Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, On Photography and Illness as Metaphor.
In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity-from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographic documents of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death ...
Over the summer and fall of 1978, Susan Sontag engaged in a series of deeply stimulating, provocative and intimate conversations with Jonathan Cott of Rolling Stone magazine.
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933–2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career.
While Adler favored Lamarck over Darwin because the former's teleology supported his own evolutionist optimism , * Freud's version had a consistently gloomy cast . What appealed to Freud was not its teleological verve but the near ...
Tucson: At night, from my upper bunk, testing Judith on the capitals of all the States in the U.S. The Chandler St. "Red Car" [Los Angeles]. Martha and Bill Hirsch. ... Learning that the Cord Meyer Apts. next door were "restricted.