![]() It was originally published in the UK as Ten Little Niggers, which was not shocking in 1930s Britain. The novel has been published under several different titles, as a direct result of Values Dissonance. The 19 versions are the only major adaptations that retain the original ending. Screen adaptations include a 1945 film, a 1965 film (titled Ten Little Indians), a 1974 film, a 1987 Russian film, a 1989 film (titled Ten Little Indians), and a 2015 BBC miniseries. The various film versions mostly use the play's ending or a variation thereof, which makes sense once you know the book's ending. It is also among the best-selling novels of all time in any genre.Īgatha Christie published the novel in 1939 and later adapted the story into a play (with an Adaptational Alternate Ending) in 1943. ![]() "Ladies and gentlemen! Silence, please! You are charged with the following indictments."Īnd Then There Were None is, without hyperbole, one of the most famous and popular murder mysteries ever written. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We want to see aspects of ourselves in the media we consume but it’s painfully clear that Hollywood and media in general skew towards the straight, white male demographic. ![]() It is gratifying to see that one of the biggest hot button topics coming up whenever new movies, television show, or comic book comes out are representation and visibility. The Modern Age of comics has seen the deconstruction of superheroes, the rise, fall, and rise again of comic book movies and television, and the elevation of geek culture. Television, books, movies, and music all contribute to how we perceive and relate to the world around us. Vaughan and Fiona StaplesĪs a global consumer culture one of the first things we’re introduced to is media. ![]() She’s also the host of That Girl with the Curls podcast where she takes the written word and voices it with her dulcet tones whether it’s in the company of friends or special guests.Ĭlick here for the introduction to the Comics, Human Rights and Representation Week. An historian and archivist, she’s a fan of comic books, movies, music, and television, never shying away from talking about or analyzing pop culture minutiae on her website The Maniacal Geek. Samantha Cross is best described as a poly-geek, soaking up as much information as possible in order to better appreciate the things she loves. ![]() ![]() You are not a servile copyist, but a poet!” cried the old man sharply, cutting Porbus short with an imperious gesture. “The aim of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. Remarkably, “The Unknown Masterpiece” pulls it off.įrenhofer’s philosophy of art doesn’t simply succeed in making the story work it’s been studied ever since by actual painters!Īnd that’s quite a trick on de Balzac’s part. That’s a ton of pressure for an author to take on when writing a story. He must talk about painting in ways that capture our attention, our imagination and our mind. He must speak very well about the nature of art. It’s a philosophical consideration pulled through a plot.Īnd for it to work, the character of Frenhofer must be very smart. Making the artistic philosophy espoused by one of the characters truly brilliantīut my own particular emotional response aside, let’s note that this is very much a story of ideas. The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac, 1832 ![]() ![]() ![]() King Lear is one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, but also one of his most nonsensical. The closest I’ve seen to a successful Lear starred John Lithgow outdoors at Shakespeare in the Park in New York City, where Lear’s final tempest-tossed scene took place in an actual deluge, Lear’s tears mingling with the rain like the end of Blade Runner. Its script poses so many problems most companies resort to melodrama: eye-gouging, full-frontal wandering in the wilderness, and many failed attempts to emulate a storm. In fact, Lear has always been my least favorite of Shakespeare’s plays. ![]() Sheltering in place with just a handful of books, he turned again and again to the same source materials–stories that his contemporaries would have been deeply familiar with, but which are largely unknown by audiences today. ![]() Even less known is the effect that the quarantine had on the bard’s writing of the play. According to The Guardian there were many plague years while Shakespeare was writing his plays, and historian James Shapiro points out that Lear was first acted in private for King James I in the middle of a plague outbreak in 1606 that closed London’s theatres. But the real story may be more complicated. Legend has it that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine from the plague. ![]() Tana Wojczuk is the author of Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity, out now on Avid Reader Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() As her mom gets sicker, Erica quickly learns that juggling family, friends, school, and fulfilling a promesa is stressful, but with a little bit of hope and a lot of love, she just might be able to figure it out.Ĭonfetti Girl author Diana Lopez returns with this sweet, funny, and utterly honest story about being a girl in a world full of good (and bad) surprises. When her family visits a cuarto de milagros, a miracle room in a famous church, Erica decides to make a promesa to God in exchange for her mom's health. And when Erica's mom is diagnosed with breast cancer, she feels worried and doesn't know what she can do to help. And she's passionate about the crushes on her Boyfriend Wish list. She's jealous that her genius little sister skipped two grades. She's happy when she hangs out with her best friends, the Robins. ![]() It's summer before eighth grade, and Erica "Chia" Montenegro is feeling so many things that she needs a mood ring to keep track of her emotions. ![]() |