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2015-01-05T17:14:41-07:00

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Paved-Over Grace Along “The Road to Perdition”

Last updated on: January 5, 2015 at 5:14 pm By Joseph Susanka

The artistic gulf between cinematic works and literary ones is so vast, I sometimes marvel that anyone is courageous enough to attempt to marry the two. Aside from the occasionally successful (if often bland) A&E or BBC miniseries, cinematic adaptations are forced by time constraints to simplify so drastically that there is little chance of accurately reflecting the topics and themes addressed in their source material. The necessity of using “cinematic shorthand” to compress story lines and distill dramatic elements... Read more

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2015-09-18T16:48:40-06:00

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The Specter of Broken Fatherhood in the Films of Wes Anderson

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 4:48 pm By Joseph Susanka

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” -– Mark Twain Wes Anderson is a hard case. As a director whose indebtedness to past cinematic masters is matched only by his influence on current indie filmmakers, Anderson is a crossroads unto himself: Often imitated; never duplicated.... Read more

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2015-01-06T13:09:52-07:00

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Searching Amidst the Bread and Circuses

Last updated on: January 6, 2015 at 1:09 pm By Joseph Susanka

There are few writers who have written so clearly or so well about the art of cinematic interpretation as has that charmingly blunt hillbilly Thomist, Flannery O’Connor. It might seem counter-intuitive to search for insights on understanding film among the essays and lectures of a fiction writer — and a short-story writer, at that. But in her essay, “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction,” O’Connor reminds her fellow authors (and storytelling artists of any stripe) of an incredibly important insight regarding... Read more

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2015-10-27T10:55:31-06:00

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The Brutality of Grace

Last updated on: October 27, 2015 at 10:55 am By Joseph Susanka

Throughout much of her life, Flannery O’Connor struggled against what she perceived as dangerous and excessive sentimentality among her readers, defending her stories against accusations of violence, brutality, and “gothic grotesqueness.” For her, violence was an essential part of her message, for “to expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.” Responding to her critics, O’Connor made an important point: “Our age not only does not have a... Read more

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