Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Inspiring Ideas and Insights from the Matriarchy

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In her addictive 1988 book The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects , Barbara G....
Saturday, April 4, 2020

"Eden": A Femme Fatale in the Homosocial Garden

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Eden (2019) is a short horror film, indeed, lasting approximately six-and-a-half minutes. Three som...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

From The Breakfast Club to Deadly Detention

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Have you ever wondered which of deviants and losers of The Breakfast Club (1985) would survive if...
Monday, July 9, 2018

H. G. Wells: The Art of "The Cone"

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman H. G. Wells's masterful short story, “The Cone,” tells a simple, straightforward tale of ve...
Friday, November 25, 2011

A Dirty Little Secret About Horror Movies: They Hurt So Good!

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman We say that we fear death, disability, insensibility, insanity, incarceration, apathy or hatred, p...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Not-So-Gratuitous Nudity, Part 2

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Context helps to determine how onscreen nudity registers--how, in other words, a moviegoer interpr...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Here, the Now, and the Eternal

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Paintings and illustrations are, of course, visual modes, whereas fiction is a narrative form. A painting...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Borrowed Malice

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? -- Edgar Allan Poe When it comes to fas...