Keywords: Charles Dickens
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 February 2012
6 Comments
If Dickens wished to address the deprivation and discrimination suffered by Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers today, he would need to turn to the popular media. But even though he was superbly gifted for the genre, his telly series would most likely flop.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 18 May 2011
7 Comments
My sons had their bedtime stories for years, but had to become used to my saying 'Just a minute' while I raced to the end of a page or chapter. Now grown, my technophile youngest had a most surprisng reaction to the marvellous present sent to me recently.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 22 December 2010
1 Comment
Despair, Damnation, and Capital Punishment are my Christmas fare this year. During my research into literary executions, I was shocked to find so few cases where they were opposed on Christian grounds, and so many examples of Christian acceptance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 24 February 2010
4 Comments
In Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, pet raven Grip is given to tantalising but incomprehensible
pronouncements, fluttering annoyingly around the edges of
conversational gatherings, and launching
sudden, inexplicable attacks.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Carter
- 10 July 2006
1 Comment
In Polanski's remake of Oliver Twist, the rich humanity of nineteenth century London is vividly portrayed. But the representation of Oliver Twist by Barney Clarke leaves the viewer dissatisfied, and asking for more.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Lucille Hughes
- 10 July 2006
Reviews of the films Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World; In The Cut; Mystic River and Nicholas Nickleby.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Luke O’Callaghan, John Molloy, Nathan Kensey, Rachel Hewitt
- 11 May 2006
Reviews of the books: A man after his own heart; The Master; Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities; and Travellers’ Tales.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
D. L. Lewis welcomes Robert Holden’s Crackpots, Rebels and Ratbags.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Simon Caterson
- 20 April 2006
We all know about the supposedly true books that turn out to be fakes, but perhaps even more remarkable is the way fiction can somehow become fact.
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