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BEAUTY IS TRUTH: BOB DYLAN’S POEM TO JOANIE
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BEAUTY IS TRUTH: BOB DYLAN’S POEM TO JOANIE

  The pursuit of and definition of beauty has been one of the major concerns of poets throughout the ages. In perhaps his best known poem, Sonnet 18, Shakespeare asks if it is wise to compare the object of his love to a summer’s day, which despite all its glories will inevitably fade away. But...

BOB DYLAN: Most Of The Time
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BOB DYLAN: Most Of The Time

BOB DYLAN: MOST OF THE TIME The ‘Drawn Blank Series’, the exhibition of Bob Dylan’s paintings currently showing at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre, provides a valuable insight into Dylan’s creative and imaginative processes. The paintings are based on a series of drawings Dylan completed in the late 80s and early 90s. In what the exhibition...

THE PRISONER: Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009
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THE PRISONER: Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009

THE PRISONER: PATRICK McGOOHAN The recent death of the creator of The Prisoner Patrick McGoohan was given surprisingly little publicity. One of those items towards the end of the news where the newsreader adopts an appropriately nostalgic, slightly reverential tone. Some fairly muted obituaries in the newspapers, with the standard shots of McGoohan in his...

EXPLORING TELEVISUALITY: The Tudors
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EXPLORING TELEVISUALITY: The Tudors

   What is ‘televisuality’? The word has been bandied around rather loosely by media academics for a decade or so. Broadly speaking we can say that the word refers to the attempts that have been made to examine the fundamental nature of television as a form of communication. But there is little consensus between those...

BOB DYLAN: Waiting For You
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BOB DYLAN: Waiting For You

Happiness is but a state of mind. Anytime you want, you can cross the state line….   Waiting For You was written for the soundtrack of Callie Khouri’s 2002 movie, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, a wryly bittersweet and avowedly feminist tale centred around the complex relationship between a mother and daughter. As with...