Visual Lessons Against Racism
Many films are written and produced, advocating a collective stance against racism in whichever ugly form it manifests itself. I recall a handful. They cause me to react in shock and anger. On certain occasions I am inspired. It forced me to take stock of my surroundings, particularly when prejudice reared its ugly head. These films show…
Meeting Oskar Schindler
In spirit, as an agnostic Christian, chastised into the Roman Catholic faith from birth, along with my younger brother, Giovanni, I first met Austrian-born maverick entrepreneur, Oskar Schindler at Cape Town’s Victoria and Alfred Waterfront on the eve of South Africa’s first democratic elections. Unbeknown to us at that time, racially categorised Hutu’s were sharpening…
FROM TEXT TO SCREEN: SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
In this post I discuss the implications of two statements made, one by Thomas Leitch and the other by Hammond and Regan (from Making the Novel: Fictions and Society in Britain). According to Leitch (in his Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads) “the film must communicate definite ideas about the integral meaning and value of the…
The Holocaust Files are Open
The Holocaust, as a matter of history, cannot be denied, and similar atrocities that have followed it cannot be excused or accepted. My thoughts, feelings and strategies on writing about films in which the Holocaust is portrayed remains a work in progress. The current project, sub-titled, War and Literature, is drawing to a close. So,…
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