Have you thought of collecting your film and poetry reviews in a book, Noah? That’s a book I would happily buy, or help crowdfund. I’m not much of a movie buff but I love writing that opens a door, offers new insight, translates across media, gives me thought-food to munch on, and stirs up the feelings that accompany a fresh understanding of things/ideas previously closed to me. Love your work!
This may very well be more trouble to you than it's worth, but: if there were a way to pay you some money and simply download PDFs of these collections I would do it in a heartbeat (okay, maybe not a heartbeat but pretty quickly). This isn't because Amazon sucks but simply because I don't use Kindle and I like the option of printing stuff out.
Would your thoughts have been different if it ended with her walking through the city eating pizza listening to Nona Simone with the headphones on awaiting her ultimate death but at this moment still alive and free happy to have helped others escaped death what she knows she can’t.
I thought she gave herself to the monsters at the end because she ran out of pain pills and the death by cancer was becoming unbearable. In your context that is still disturbing. Why not rifle the stores for pain pills and go by that end?
The sacrificial act to save the white guy and then die at the hands of the creature is a failure of the imagination
Have you thought of collecting your film and poetry reviews in a book, Noah? That’s a book I would happily buy, or help crowdfund. I’m not much of a movie buff but I love writing that opens a door, offers new insight, translates across media, gives me thought-food to munch on, and stirs up the feelings that accompany a fresh understanding of things/ideas previously closed to me. Love your work!
Hah; well, no publisher is going to do that; I'm not enough of a name.
However! I self published a number of collections...which no one really buys. But you could!
Here are a couple
On fascism in film
https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Dreams-Films-About-Fascism-ebook/dp/B0774GL9WV
On colonial films
https://www.amazon.com/Yet-Another-Heart-Darkness-American-ebook/dp/B07GYBHQ1G
This may very well be more trouble to you than it's worth, but: if there were a way to pay you some money and simply download PDFs of these collections I would do it in a heartbeat (okay, maybe not a heartbeat but pretty quickly). This isn't because Amazon sucks but simply because I don't use Kindle and I like the option of printing stuff out.
Would your thoughts have been different if it ended with her walking through the city eating pizza listening to Nona Simone with the headphones on awaiting her ultimate death but at this moment still alive and free happy to have helped others escaped death what she knows she can’t.
Yeah, I would have preferred that.
I thought she gave herself to the monsters at the end because she ran out of pain pills and the death by cancer was becoming unbearable. In your context that is still disturbing. Why not rifle the stores for pain pills and go by that end?
The sacrificial act to save the white guy and then die at the hands of the creature is a failure of the imagination
But your lovely last sentence says that doesn’t it. I’m just thinking through what you already wrote
Sorry I need to edit this for poor grammar but can’t. I have Covid right now and am a little fuzzy headed. I enjoyed this essay by the way.