#AuthorFail is a new column at BigOther. For the details on how to submit, check here. The column looks for instances that bury achievement and redemption and genius and artistic growth and special-ness beneath the crushing failure that often constitutes the material experience of art making and so runs counter to the individual myth(s) which [...]
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“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alice Krige, character, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Darth Vader, Don Quixote, F.W. Murnau, Hamlet, Humbert Humbert, Inception, Jacques Tati, John Gielgud, Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Lolita, Lost, Mad Men, Magic: The Gathering, Mark Rosewater, Phyrexian, Richard Burton, Salman Rushdie, Samuel Beckett, Sancho Panza, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Wars, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Borg, The Office, The Unnamable, The Wire, Vladimir Nabokov, William Gass on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Every Monday, I read Mark Rosewater’s weekly column “Making Magic,” partly because I have a casual interest in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering (I once played it, and some of my friends still play it), but mainly because Rosewater routinely offers great insights into aesthetics and game design. (He’s also a strong writer [...]
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