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Mouse

Georgie Carroll

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Despite its minuscule size, the mouse has a large presence in earth's animal kingdom and the human...

Cult of Analytics: Data Analytics for Marketing

Steve Jackson

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Cult of Analytics enables professionals to build an analytics driven culture into their business or...

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Daniel C. Dennett

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'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer...

Dana (24 KP) rated Culture across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture in Books

Mar 23, 2018

This book had a lot of very insightful articles on the US-Mexico border and the borderlands. I always find it fascinating to see the different points of view about the border--specifically how the United States sees it as opposed to how Mexico sees it. This book has six articles that I had to read for my film class about the borderlands. Seeing how specifically films deal with issues involved in immigration is very interesting. I enjoyed being shown examples throughout history to see how culture adapted and changed their views on immigrants and border policy. I think the most insightful article, for me, was "The Celluloid Immigrant" by Victor Alejandro Sorrell because it hits on many of the issues we still see today.

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Andy K (10823 KP) rated West Side Story (1961) in Movies

Jan 1, 2019

West Side Story (1961)

1961 | Drama, Musical, Romance

7.8

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Some of the songs are iconic

Romeo and Juliet, this time the "Jets" and "Sharks" the Americans vs. the Puerto Ricans.

Some of the situations and dialogue are dated now some 60+ years later and the movie is maybe 20 minutes to long, but when it works it is magic.

Songs like America, Somewhere, I Feel Pretty and Tonight anchor the film and the dance sequences are astonishing.

Hard to believe Spielberg is going to try and remake this. The politically correct culture we live in now doesn't seem like it will like another version of this unless they make it very authentic and not have Natalie Wood play Maria this time around.

We shall see...