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This Devil's Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian
Desmond Hurst's much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol,
Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film
has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does with
terror cinema like James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, Robert
Weine's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and F.W. Murnau's Faust.
Beginning with Charles Dickens himself, a prolific writer of ghost
stories, with A Christmas Carol being but one of many, Colin
Fleming then considers earlier cinematic adaptations including
1935's folk-horror-like Scrooge, before offering a full account of
the Hurst/Sim version, stressing what must always be kept at the
forefront of our minds: this is a ghost story.
Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square
Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and
James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul
albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual, emotional,
and social journey played out over one night on the stage of a
sweaty Miami club, as Cooke made music that encapsulated everything
he had ever cut, channeling forces that would soon birth "A Change
is Gonna Come," the most important soul song ever written. This
book covers Cooke's days with the Soul Stirrers, the gospel unit
that was inventing a strand of soul in the 1950s, and continues on
to his string of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more
about this complex man and the complex music he was always
fashioning. A writer and an agent of social change, he absorbed the
teachings of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan while reconciling his own
identity and what fans expected of him. Fleming explores how this
towering soul artist came to reconcile so many disparate elements
on a Florida stage on a winter night in 1963-a stage that extended
well into the future, beyond Cooke's own life, beyond the 1960s,
and into a perpetual here-and-now. Live at the Harlem Square Club,
1963 will resonate so long as we all have need to look into
ourselves and square our differences and become more human, and
more connected with others in our humanity.
A relationship ends in the space between [ ]. Abe Lincoln and Edgar
Allan Poe Two stroll the river in the afterlife, debating a second
death. Two boys navigate jazz, baseball, and growing up in the
second between the pitch and the swing. And a man from Living
Dangerously sets off across the ocean on a pile of lobster traps,
seeking the truth of the smoke on the wind. With If You [ ], author
Colin Fleming breaks the unwritten rule of the short story
collection. In over thirty different styles, Fleming delivers a
punk rock triple album in book form-compositions that display a
dizzying range of fearless artistry, from horror to
hyper-experimental to a story disguised as a grocery list.
Together, these pieces resonate with unexpected chords, exploring
the breadth of human experience and affirming that that narrative
is everywhere, if we are able and willing to see it.
This Devil's Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian
Desmond Hurst's much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol,
Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film
has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does with
terror cinema like James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, Robert
Weine's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and F.W. Murnau's Faust.
Beginning with Charles Dickens himself, a prolific writer of ghost
stories, with A Christmas Carol being but one of many, Colin
Fleming then considers earlier cinematic adaptations including
1935's folk-horror-like Scrooge, before offering a full account of
the Hurst/Sim version, stressing what must always be kept at the
forefront of our minds: this is a ghost story.
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