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Christopher Nolan’s Achievement: The Dark Knight: “The title of the Nolan’s latest Batman film calls to mind medieval chivalry in a postmodern key. The dark knight embraces extraordinary tasks and fights against enormous odds; his quest is to restore what has been corrupted and to recover what has been lost. In so doing, he takes upon himself a suffering and loneliness that isolate him from his fellow citizens and inevitably court their misunderstanding and scorn. He is a dark knight, in part, because the world he inhabits is nearly void of hope and virtue, and, in part, because some of the darkness resides within him, in his internal conflicts between the good he aspires to restore and the means he deploys to fend off evil. Of the many filmmakers designing dark tales of quests for redemption, Christopher Nolan is currently making a serious claim to being the master craftsman.” (Thomas S. Hibbs, First Things: On the Square )
Tue 22 Jul 2008 from Mark Meador • Link & Comments
Running on Faith: A new report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and its sister project, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, quantifies and analyzes the media’s coverage of religion in the U.S. presidential primary campaign from January 2007 through April 2008. Among its major findings, the report reveals that media coverage of religion rivaled coverage of race and gender combined. Among the summary statements: “These findings suggest a continuing discomfort among news organizations in tackling deep questions of how candidates’ personal faith may influence their public leadership. When the press does cover such stories, it tends to focus on discrete events – such as a speech, video or TV appearance – rather than the underlying connections, and often the coverage is fairly short-lived.” (Pew Forum )
Fri 11 Jul 2008 from TTF Staff • Link & Comments
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