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Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism

David Afriyie Donkor

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The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the...

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

Jane Lydon

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With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial...

Boiling a Frog

Christopher Brookmyre

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Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

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In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) in Movies

Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1949 | Classics, Comedy, Drama

10.0

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Justly acclaimed black comedy is a somewhat atypical film from Ealing Studios, better known for their affectionate depictions of post-war British life. Calculating man-on-the-make Dennis Price sets out to get on in the world by murdering the eight members of the D'Ascoyne family who stand between him and inheriting the dukedom of Chalfont.

Best known for the fact that Alec Guinness plays all the D'Ascoynes, but Dennis Price is just as good as the homicidal would-be aristocrat. The broad comedy of some of Guinness' performances, plus the staging of several of the murders, is underpinned by some much subtler and more understated humour about class and morality. One of those films you can watch several times and still find new layers to enjoy; very funny, too, though that should go without saying.

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Aasiyah Sidat (34 KP) rated In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences in Books

Jul 5, 2018

In cold blood is a true crime story about a family murdered in Kansas. The book shows us through the eyes of both the investigators on the case and their struggle for justice but also the criminals who justify the crime and their actions.

In cold blood opens you up to the reality of human nature. For these criminals to commit the murders of 4 people and not show any remorse is shocking. Towards the end of the book, there is a strong debate about how these criminals should be punished, life imprisonment or capital punishment which in this case was hanging. It brings up the question of morality and responsibility, of whether as humans we can play God and take a life?

Continue reading my review at: https://www.readsandrecipes.co.uk/2017/02/read-harder-5000-miles.html