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Jesse James, myth-making and pop culture

10 septiembre 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, Book & film reviews, Social values
In the 2007 movie, The Assassination of Jesse James, we get to see a nascent American pop culture in a collision between its pop star (James) and a displaced fan (Ford), in an episode eerily similar to the fatal collision of John Lennon and Mark David Chapman. The difference, aside from the century between events, is that, for a while anyway, Ford...

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Alice in Blunderland: A Review

20 junio 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
If you haven't read the original books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, just stop right here. There's no sense in reading any further. I'm going to make...

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