This week I am cheating a bit and referencing a video (with some text). It also may seem outside of my general posts concerning women and film – but, to the contrary, women in film will be horrifically affected by the destruction of net neutrality. It is the open internet that has made things possible for women directors who have been denied the route of the traditional studio system. Now there is a huge potential those roads will also be […]
Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR
Part II of II – Goethe’s views on Raphael, Michael Angelo, Italian society and being an artist Click here to view Part I (03 July) – about Goethe’s commitment to understanding art In Italian Journey, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s survey of architecture, sculpture and painting is an itinerary today for aficionados of Renaissance art. The famous Palladio is his muse, an “intrinsically great” architect “who has opened the road for me to… art and life.” There is, indeed, something divine […]
Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: Goethe
I come across all sorts of poems in my continuous hunt for poetry contests and literary journals that might house the verses I wrestle to write. Yesterday, I came across a jewel. A simple, stunning jewel. The poem was a finalist for Rattle Poetry’s 2013 Contest and was written by Los Angeles-based poet Chanel Brenner, pictured to the right. To read more poems by Ms. Brenner, click here. Below is the poem that left me stunned. A POEM FOR WOMEN […]
Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: children, death, grief, literature, poetry, writing
In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. “The day I Left My Son In The Car” is a self-exploratory article that details Kim Brooks’s experience with the juvenile court system. Brooks, the author, explains how the decision to leave her 6-year-old child in the car for five minutes led her through two years of involvement in the court system after being accused of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (i.e., she left the kid in need of services). […]
Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, memories, parenting
[print_link] [email_link] A query came into Zeteo—I wish I could remember who it was from. It reminded me of one of my favorite “found” books: This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class. I have a particular fondness for found books, even for The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women into Bed, which someone—frustrated by his own lack of success?—left out in the rain not far from a lonely New York bar. […]
Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: psychotherapy, reading, social class, work, working class
In trying to prepare another grant for my female filmmakers documentary this week I am once again steeped in reading about the lack of women directors in Hollywood. It’s kind of depressing – and often redundant. I did get a great quote though from a New York Times article announcing that Kristin Wiig will be making her directorial debut. The first half of the quote reiterates the dismal statistics. The second half is a comment made by TriStar chairman Thomas E. […]
Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Italian Journey is a memorable picture of Italy at the end of the eighteenth century. Italian Journey portrays Goethe’s joy and struggle to satisfy his intellectual curiosity and commitment to understanding art. “With great objects [of art] around,” he said, the purpose of his trip was “to learn and to improve myself ere I am forty years old.” (He began the journey at 37.) Goethe traveled throughout Italy from 1786 to 1788. Upon arriving he declared his “delight that the language I always […]
Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel
On a recent trip to New York City a made an obligatory stop at The Strand bookstore, quite possible the world’s best. Their poetry section is so rich with options that it is almost impossible not to make an interesting discovery. Among the discoveries I made is Taylor Mali’s book “What Learning Leaves.” I picked it because the cover looks like a classic composition book, the type that are sold in drugstores all over the country, which I happen […]
Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, writing
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