Resources for October 25, 2017

Blakeslee, David, et al. "Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up." Criterion Cast (June 23, 2017) ["In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of Herbie Hancock, a beautifully evasive performance by Vanessa Redgrave, and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow-Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists."]

Brayton, Tim. "Behind the Mask: The Skin I Live In." Cinematheque (October 25, 2017)

Coppola, Sofia. "On Filmmaking and The Beguiled." The Close-Up (June 22, 2017)

Cribbs, John, et al. "The History of the Planet of the Apes." Wrong Reel #284 (June 22, 2017)

Dufour, Jules. "The Worldwide Network of U.S. Military Bases: The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel." Global Research (March 7, 2016)

Johnson, Chalmers. "Militarism and the American Empire." Conversations with History (2005)

---. "On Our Managed Democracy." Truthdig (May 16, 2008)

Lack, Jonathan R. "Absolute Contingencies: The Double Life of Veronique, Under the Skin, Proteus, and the Wonder of Internalizing Art." Fade to Lack (May 7, 2014)





Lovelace, Grace. "Wonderstruck II: Todd Haynes’ Places of Discovery and Wonder." Bright Lights Film Journal (October 24, 2017)

Mayer, Sophie. "The new Wuthering Heights does not ignore racism; it tackles it full on." The Guardian (December 8, 2014)

Pilkington, Ed. "Rightwing alliance plots assault to 'defund and defang' America's unions." The Guardian (August 2017)