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One of the world's greatest fairy tales is re-told in a
graphic-novel format. In a far-away kingdom, there lives an Emperor
who prizes fancy clothes above all else. He buys suit after suit
made of the most expensive materials instead of tending to his
threadbare kingdom. Then, one day, two travelling merchants offer
to make the Emperor a special suit that has magical powers. The
merchants, however, are not who they claim to be, and the suit has
one major flaw, no one can see it!
One of the world's greatest fairy tales is re-told in a
graphic-novel format. Long ago, a beautiful maiden named Rapunzel
lived a life of loneliness. Taken at birth by an evil witch, she
remained hidden, locked within a giant tower. Then one day, a
prince heard her voice through the forest. To reach her, he must
climb Rapunzel's lovely locks and avoid being caught by the witch.
During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy
found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan
London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases
and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones
and Whistler, as well as works of aesthetic writers who were
effecting a revolution in British literary culture and channeling
influences from France that would gradually coalesce into an
international decadent movement. In Reframing Decadence Peter
Jeffreys returns us to this critical period of Cavafy's life,
showing the poet's creative indebtedness to British and French
avant-garde aesthetes whose collective impact on his poetry proved
to be profound. In the process, Jeffreys offers a critical
reappraisal of Cavafy's relation to Victorian aestheticism and
French literary decadence.Foremost among the tropes of decadence
that captivated Cavafy were the decline of imperial Rome, the rise
of Christianity, and the lingering twilight of Byzantium. The
influence of Walter Pater on Cavafy's view of classical and
late-antique history was immense, inflected as it was with an
unapologetic homoerotic aesthetic that Cavafy would adopt as his
own, making Pater's imaginary portraits an important touchstone for
his own historicizing poetry. Cavafy would move beyond Pater to
explore a more openly homoerotic sensuality but he never quite
abandoned this rich Victorian legacy, one that contributed greatly
to his emergence as a global poet. Jeffreys concludes by
considering Cavafy's current popularity as a gay poet and his
curious relation to kitsch as manifest in his ongoing popularity
via translation and visual media.
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Brother 2 (Russian, DVD)
Sergei Bodrov Jr, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Kirill Pirogov, Alexander Diachenko, …
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Arriving in Moscow, Chechen veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) meets
Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has
been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey
team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and
he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to
Chicago and a whole new experience.
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