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He does mention that Cambell is an inspiration, but I haven't read his work. I only started reading Vogler because it's the year coursebook for fmp heh.
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He does mention that Cambell is an inspiration, but I haven't read his work. I only started reading Vogler because it's the year coursebook for fmp heh.
Ah, well you can pick Campbell's book up for a pittance on Amazon UK. I'd recommend reading it: it really is good.
If I remember correctly, when Vogler's book was first published THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES was out of print, and consequently a lot of people didn't see the direct ways in which Vogler riffs on Campbell's work (and, to some extent, misrepresents some of his ideas and misinterprets the central theme of Campbell's book).
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces at Amazon.
Most of Campbell's work is pretty good, including THE MASKS OF GOD.
Campbell escapes from the ghetto of navel-gazing that characterises quite a lot of Formalist-inspired critical work.
In 1988, PBS produced a pretty good documentary about Campbell's ideas entitled THE POWER OF MYTH. It's worth tracking down; I'm sure you could find a copy for download somewhere.
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I've avoided Shakespeare for as long as I can, but it's caught up with me now and I've had to bite the bullet and read MACBETH - loved it. Going on to KING LEAR and HAMLET now, all part of my MA reading list.
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Cormac McCarthy. I'm trying to get it done before I see the film on Wednesday. 80 pages in and I love what I've read so far.
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Just finished Essential Reporting by Jon Smith. A good educational read on non-fiction/journalistic writing.
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Took my own advice and cut down on the writing to do some reading; I've missed it.
A SCANNER DARKLY Philip K ****
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Anthony Burgess
THE SECRET AGENT Joseph Conrad
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Took my own advice and cut down on the writing to do some reading; I've missed it.
A SCANNER DARKLY Philip K ****
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Anthony Burgess
THE SECRET AGENT Joseph Conrad
All good books. I absolutely love Philip K ****. Wasn't too keen on the film adaptation of SCANNER DARKLY: it felt like it lost a lot of the political subtext and focused exclusively on delivering 'stoner humour', but I guess that's to be expected from a Richard Linklater film. My favourite PKD novel is probably THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. I tend to prefer his short stories, I have to admit. However, his work is more pertinent than ever before. Which is the novel that features a media-generated war that takes place in perpetuity, as a way of placating the masses? The parallels with the current situation are pretty obvious, even from that short plot description.
I love THE SECRET AGENT: it's one of the great early-modernist novels, and for my money it's a better text than some of the more obscure modernist literature by Woolf, Joyce et al. (I'd say the same about Hemingway's literature and Albert Camus.) There was a good film adaptation about twelve years ago, starring Bob Hoskins; of course, there's also the HitchLock adaptation, which is pretty good. I don't think it's out on DVD, and it's only shown on television once. It's a film that's almost dropped off the radar. Of Conrad's novels, this is probably my second favourite, topped only by NOSTROMO.
I'm not as keen on Marquez' LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA as I am on some of his other novels. I prefer his two openly political novels, THE AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH and THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH.
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I think THE SECRET AGENT would be my pick of those four. It's timeless novel and gives me even more ammunition for talking about The Wire which is definitely Conradian.
I like an unresolved question from a text and AGENT gives me plenty. I finished it more than a month ago and I still can't decide whether Verloc's wife was a strong female character. There's more than just an essay in that question alone.
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Took my own advice and cut down on the writing to do some reading; I've missed it.
A SCANNER DARKLY Philip K ****
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Anthony Burgess
THE SECRET AGENT Joseph Conrad
All good books. I absolutely love Philip K ****. Wasn't too keen on the film adaptation of SCANNER DARKLY: it felt like it lost a lot of the political subtext and focused exclusively on delivering 'stoner humour', but I guess that's to be expected from a Richard Linklater film. My favourite PKD novel is probably THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. I tend to prefer his short stories, I have to admit. However, his work is more pertinent than ever before. Which is the novel that features a media-generated war that takes place in perpetuity, as a way of placating the masses? The parallels with the current situation are pretty obvious, even from that short plot description.
I too am a big fan of Philip K. ****. I find it really annoying that's there's only been one decent film adaptation of his work, and I know I don't have to mention what that is 
However, I've not read THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, but it's on my bookshelf awaiting me. I love DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP... I've read it five times and I'm still struggling to fully understand the ending 
I'm currently trying to get through Arthur C. Clarke's RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA. I'm enjoying it, although simultaneously finding it slightly painful. It's full of ideas that are great for its time, but this modern world undoes their impact; I should have read it when I was younger.
It's been on my reading list for almost a year and I finally got round to picking it up after reading that David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac) has been hired to adapt it to the screen. I feel there'll be a lot of liberties taken with the story to create an adaptation to satisfy today's spectacle-loving audience, but at least it's Fincher at the helm.
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