William Eaton

A Week of Reading About the Movies

September 24, 2013 by William Eaton

24 September 2013 Reading Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work by J.J. Murphy. It explores the distinct narrative features of independent cinema in the United States as compared to traditional Hollywood films. In the opening chapter Murphy provides a wonderful analysis and synopsis of the various banal screenwriting manuals that teach writers the rules of screenwriting. One of my favorite quotes that he shares is from an interview subject of my thesis project and documentary […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: film, storytelling

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Reading First Sentences

September 15, 2013 by William Eaton

A Week of Reading from . . . William Eaton, Zeteo Executive Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading. This one was first posted 15-21 September 2013.] 15 September 2013: K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality As this is a season for reading manuscripts that are being submitted for Zeteo’s Fall 2013 issue [see current Call for Papers], I have become interested in first sentences and what one can learn from them. So I want […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: American Revolution, Ancient Greece, bees, dreams, Eichmann, Freud, Gatsby, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, sexuality

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Reading 1-7 September 2013 ZiR

September 4, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 September 2013 I’m reading way too much right now, if that’s even possible, and it’s all rather intense. I just finished Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism (1955). His harsh criticism of colonialism’s poetic nature serves to further emphasize the emotional impact of his subject matter as he notes that in order for the colonizer to “civilize” the colonized, he must transform himself. …. They […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: poetics, poetry

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Translating Baudelaire

August 11, 2013 by William Eaton

My hobby this summer has turned out to be translating lines from Baudelaire.

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baudelaire, French, poetry, translation

Reading: 4-10 August 2013

August 5, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 4 August 2013 For a bit of summer reading, I just today finished Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog) (1899), which he originally intended as a serious travel guide but became an exercise in hilarity. We all hear that inner voice when we read, which is relatively consistent. For some reason, I heard the voice […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Franz Kafka, Henrietta Lacks

Reading: 7 July-13 July 2013 ZiR

July 7, 2013 by William Eaton

William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 7 July 2013 Reading various things in the process of preparing an essay on Plato’s dialogue Lysis, the foremost subject of which is φιλία (philia), which in this context has traditionally been translated as “friendship.” Thus a week of readings related to friendship beckons. A first bit—or salvo—from a journal entry of Thoreau’s, November 3, 1858: Nothing makes me so dejected as […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Aristotle, cancer, desire, evil, friends, friendship, Ian Craib, Plato, success, Thoreau

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Reading: 30 June-6 July 2013 ZiR

July 2, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 30 June and 1 July 2013 This weekend was a series of outings into the culinary adventures of New York City, walks in the hot sun and the gleeful return to the cool relief of air conditioning, and finally, a few BBC films. The first was called “Hawking” and told the story of Stephen Hawking‘s time at Cambridge, where he made his first great discovery. The second […]

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After von Trotta’s Arendt

June 21, 2013 by William Eaton

Notes after seeing Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (and doing a little reading) Version 2.0: As revised 27 June 2013 Taking clues from Hannah Arendt (2013), directed by Margarethe von Trotta; screenplay by Pam Katz and von Trotta; cinematographer Caroline Champetier; Barbara Sukowa in the title role. [Click for pdf] By William Eaton (1) In seeing plastered across Paris posters advertising Hannah Arendt, I wondered how one could possibly make an engaging feature film about this philosopher, focused […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Eichmann, ethics, Hannah Arendt, Heidegger, Holocaust, Kant, New Yorker, philosophy, thinking

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Reading: 16-22 June 2013 (ZiR)

June 17, 2013 by William Eaton

Patrick Rea, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 16 June 2013 Laertes’ advice from his father Polonius (Shakepeare, “Hamlet”) as it appears in The Art of Manliness: Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay’d for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Middle Ages, New York Public Library, New York Times, Shakespeare

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Author Archives: William Eaton

A Week of Reading About the Movies

Reading First Sentences

Reading 1-7 September 2013 ZiR

Translating Baudelaire

Reading: 4-10 August 2013

Reading: 7 July-13 July 2013 ZiR

Reading: 30 June-6 July 2013 ZiR

After von Trotta’s Arendt

Reading: 16-22 June 2013 (ZiR)