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is to modern television what Star Wars was to the Second Golden Age of movies in the 1970s. And it most likely will be the last of its kind. The non-serialized, binge-worthy model of releasing an entire season at once, introduced by Netflix and followed now by other streaming services, seems unable to create the same spectacle and shared collective experience of the weekly Game of Thrones phenomenon. Amazon spent $200 million just to buy the rights to adapt the popular fantasy series Lord of the

Festival films have in common? Wilkin: PLU’s 2016 Tournées film festival features ambitious films with universal themes. “The Pearl Button” and “Francofonia” engage with history on an epic scale, asking whether atrocities are an exclusive trait of our planet, and what is the value of art. “Jauja” and “The Marquise of O,” both historical dramas, celebrate human determination in the quest for truth. “Mustang” and “Hippocrates: Diary of a Doctor” deal with contemporary problems that far exceed the borders

March 4, 2014 Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History students in a heated debate over the West’s invasion of China in the 19th Century. “The topic was, Was China to blame for the Opium War?,” said PLU Visiting Assistant Professor Mahlon Meyer, whose class

The Choir of the West takes to the road Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / January 21, 2013 January 21, 2013 Performing in Washington and British Columbia The PLU Choir of the West will be on tour in Washington and British Columbia later this January and in early February. The repertoire for this year’s Choir of the West tour spans many stylistic eras and genres. Audience members will hear premiere performances of three works: Exultate, by PLU choral faculty member Brian Galante; Northern Lights, by

true embodiment of this idea.  At PLU, Xi Zhu is a teacher, with valuable knowledge and deep interest in Chinese pre-modern literature. But every day this past fall, after teaching his course at PLU, Zhu commuted north to the University of Washington to take a class for his PhD. While both teaching a class and taking a class, Zhu was also working on his dissertation.  As a doctoral student, Zhu is studying a manuscript version of a pre-300 B.C.E. Chinese text known in English as the Classic of Odes

Should History Tell a Story? Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Mark JensenOriginally Published in 1990It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of seventeenth-century France in which it is not mentioned. “If he did not say ‘I am the state,’ it is only because it went without

Desire.” “Today I would probably be called a 20th-century U.S. cultural historian with a focus on consumption, childhood and leisure issues,” writes Cross, co-author of Packaged Pleasures and author of several other influential books. “But, as a historian trained in modern French and German history and with experience in British and Australian libraries and universities, I have also done comparative history on work, political economy and time. … My abiding theme is the origins, uses, meanings and

this included the annual Raul Hilberg Lecture at the University of Vermont, where Hilberg spent his entire career. Bob’s talk, based on his recent book, Complicity in the Holocaust, will be published as an “occasional paper” by the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. In July Bob helped organize a conference at the University of British Columbia, honoring John Conway, Professor Emeritus at UBC, for his fifty-year career as well as for his role in founding an online journal

watch an adaptation that does not work more than once. To be completely transparent, I prefer an adaptation that has more consistency between the novel and the film, but I’m open to experimentation. However, although this adaptation experiments with some promising strategies, the execution is inconsistent. For instance, I was struck by Anne Elliot’s (Dakota Johnson) narration and the use of contemporary dialogue. In this review I reflect on how these elements of breaking the fourth wall and

year is Dan Forrest’s LUX: The Dawn From On High. During this concert, students will perform four of the five-movements in this work, all of which explore various facets of “light” in texts ranging from ancient liturgical chant to Scripture to modern secular poetry.The University Chorale The University Chorale will present a set of three works in the middle portion of O Nata Lux. Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spain’s most famous 16th-century composer, takes us on a musical journey into the heart of the