This is basically my take on these movies, both of which Iâve seen. Canât say I loved either but I left happy they tried.
"Megalopolis only seems 'indulgent' by the impoverished standards of American popular cinema, which has been so degraded by anti-intellectualism by this point that even Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Wes Anderson are mocked as pretentious." www.rogerebert.com/features/meg...
How many times in a filmmakerâs life do they get the chance to do something that makes no sense to anyone but them?
It's spooky month, so OUP made the first chapter of my #Buddhism#hungryghostacademic.oup.com/book/58038/chapter/477477607
Great interview on what will surely become a classic in Buddhist Studies, Adeana McNichollâs new book on ghosts, cosmology, bodies, and ethics. Just in time for Halloween đť newbooksnetwork.com/adeana-mcnic...
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The future of the field is bright with 3 articles by grad students/recent grads, including my award-winning advisee Mitsuhiro Kameyama; Jon Thumas, whose stellar dissertation I was on the committee for, and Katherine Whatley who is doing exciting work on music and literature at Stanford.
I am pleased to share my first piece for China Books Review, an essay on THE SOUTHERN TOUR by @jmchatwin.bsky.social, who blends history and travelogue in retracing Deng Xiaoping's 1992 journey to the south.
Deng Xiaopingâs Southern Tour of 1992 has been heralded as the unofficial act that kick-started Chinaâs economic miracle. But other voices were also calling for reform, even as Dengâs enemies in the P...
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