If he is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also…
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Introduction: Tending the Bluebeard Tale “We must tend the myths […] only in that way shall we survive.” Janet Frame (2007, 109) The Bluebeard tales…
Comments closedThank God He Met Lizzie (1997) stands out as an extremely rare example of an Australian romantic comedy/drama. Like most romantic comedies, this film is…
Comments closedIn 1915, the Australian poet and journalist C. J. Dennis published a book of verse called The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. When read in…
Comments closedAn Alluring Beauty The Nellie Stewart bangle was a plain gold bangle worn by many Australian and New Zealand women in the early twentieth century…
Comments closedJavier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Contracorriente (2009), has garnered both critical interest and success, winning rave reviews from respected international print and web outlets and coveted…
Comments closedI SANG to women gathered round; Forth from my own heart-springs Welled out the passion; of the pain I sang if the beloved in vain…
Comments closedAccording to Richard Rodriguez, we owe the invention of the Hispanic to Richard Nixon, whose administration introduced this category in 1973 in the classification system…
Comments closedDirector Leopoldo Torre Nilsson enjoyed an intimate connection with Argentine cinema from a very early age: his father, Leopoldo Torres Ríos, and his uncle, Carlos…
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