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The Counter Arts Book Club List for 2025
The Counter Arts Book Club List for 2025
Another twelve books for a new set of twelve months
Sadie Seroxcat
Dec 19, 2024
So You Want to Write For Counter Arts?
Sadie Seroxcat
Announcements & Reminders
Sadie Seroxcat
Housekeeping
Sadie Seroxcat
Onwards and Upwards
Sadie Seroxcat
Counter Arts Book Club 2024
Sadie Seroxcat
The Wheel Turns and Another New Year Begins
Sadie Seroxcat
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Is Ennio Morricone Not A Good Film Music Composer?
Is Ennio Morricone Not A Good Film Music Composer?
What do Ennio Morricone, Guernica and Mikhail Bahtin have in common?
Onur Bayrakceken
Feb 9
How Early Modern Writers Used Mythology to Justify Sexism
How Early Modern Writers Used Mythology to Justify Sexism
The Case of Thomas Peend’s Hermaphroditus
Tom Barrett
Feb 9
A Personal Revolution
A Personal Revolution
I choose isolation and I choose beauty
Judson Stacy Vereen
Feb 9
Gender War Writers Secretly Hate Themselves
Gender War Writers Secretly Hate Themselves
An in-depth look at realistically opting out of rage-bait content.
John Pucay
Feb 9
‘Charulata’ through Layperson Lenses
‘Charulata’ through Layperson Lenses
It’s not just a feminist movie.
Bindusmita Das
Feb 9
A New Fund for Filmmakers — with a Surprising Aussie Connection
A New Fund for Filmmakers — with a Surprising Aussie Connection
What do Rotterdam, refugees and aspiring storytellers have in common?
good.film
Feb 9
Breaking and Rebuilding: A Fragmented Memoir
Breaking and Rebuilding: A Fragmented Memoir
A review of Margo Jefferson’s ‘Constructing a Nervous System” (2022)
Jane Carr
Feb 8
Signs And Wonders
Signs And Wonders
Part 1: The ‘I’ And The Eyes In ‘Blade Runner’ (1982), ‘The Sandman’ (1816), And ‘Frankenstein’ (1818)
Marc Barham
Feb 8
The Liberating Anguish of ‘On the Calculation of Volume’
The Liberating Anguish of ‘On the Calculation of Volume’
A story of temporary anguish, in which the power of human relationships shows its true fragility and tragedy, in the first volume of what…
Alejandro Orradre
Feb 8
The Art of the Steal
The Art of the Steal
Morality and the modern heist movie
Gary Angel
Feb 8
Why Do All The Jobs Out There Suck?
Why Do All The Jobs Out There Suck?
An unfiltered take on making a living as an artist.
John Pucay
Feb 8
Review: ‘Restless’ — Gus Van Sant’s Moving but Morbid Teen Romance
Review: ‘Restless’ — Gus Van Sant’s Moving but Morbid Teen Romance
Gus Van Sant sensitively delves into teenaged loss and grief in his tender, touching drama
Reece Beckett
Feb 7
Making Art in a Declining Empire
Making Art in a Declining Empire
Surely some revelation is at hand
William Ryan
Feb 7
Exploring the Long, Strange Journey to An Oscar Nomination for ‘No Other Land’
Exploring the Long, Strange Journey to An Oscar Nomination for ‘No Other Land’
The Israeli-Palestinian documentary is nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film despite never securing U.S. theatrical distribution.
Nick Hart
Feb 7
The Myth of the Tortured Artist
The Myth of the Tortured Artist
Suffering isn’t a requirement of genius
Elan Kesilman-Davin, Ph.D.
Feb 7
The ‘Future’ of A.I Goes Up in Flames
The ‘Future’ of A.I Goes Up in Flames
Artificial Intelligence in the hands of man: a cinema perspective
R.D Francis
Feb 7
The Subtle Rawness of ‘The Worst Person in the World’
The Subtle Rawness of ‘The Worst Person in the World’
The award-winning European film explores the crisis of youth in the generation born in the last quarter of the 20th century. It is a sample…
Alejandro Orradre
Feb 7
The Cheapest Countries to Live That Offer Golden Visas
The Cheapest Countries to Live That Offer Golden Visas
Sometimes it pays to think outside the box.
Greyson Ferguson
Feb 7
The Importance of American Art
The Importance of American Art
We need art to relieve ourselves from our burdensome modern existence
Judson Stacy Vereen
Feb 6
‘The Girl with the Needle’: The Commodification of the Human Body Has Never Looked So Terrifying
‘The Girl with the Needle’: The Commodification of the Human Body Has Never Looked So Terrifying
‘The Girl With The Needle drags us from the visible scars of war into the shadows of hidden horror, emerging as one of this year’s best…
Alan Laidlaw
Feb 6
My Psychosis, and Julien Baker’s ‘Little Oblivions’
My Psychosis, and Julien Baker’s ‘Little Oblivions’
How Julien Baker killed me and brought me back to life
Cecilia Fiorucci
Feb 6
Help, My Creative Spark Is Missing!
Help, My Creative Spark Is Missing!
Trying all the tricks to get unstuck — some are working, some… not really.
Dori Kasa
Feb 6
White People Don’t Own Country Music
White People Don’t Own Country Music
Don’t pretend Beyoncé has stolen the award category
Jeff Hayward
Feb 6
I Am Home Sick in the Lunar New Year
I Am Home Sick in the Lunar New Year
A revisit to the poor and happy times when I was a child
Susan C.
Feb 6
Review: ‘Heist’ Finds New Thrills in a Formulaic Genre
Review: ‘Heist’ Finds New Thrills in a Formulaic Genre
David Mamet’s 2001 crime film is an homage to the mastery of the heist classics
Reece Beckett
Feb 5
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