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RiverRun Presents Three Marketplace Screenings in October

FREE SCREENING OF SILVER DOLLAR ROAD THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8! ....

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RiverRun Retros Coming to Marketplace Cinemas in October

RiverRun Retros Coming to Marketplace Cinemas in October ....

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Sarajevo's Apollo Cinema: Remembering the Wartime Movie Theater

The Sarajevo Film Festival commemorates the 30th anniversary of the underground cinema that provided a lifeline throughout the city's four-year siege. ....

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How Does Literature and Film Genres Depict Human Misery?

How Does Literature and Film Genres Depict Human Misery?
Published December 15th, 2020 - 07:13 GMT
UNDERDOWN (Lebanon) by Sarah Kaskas (Twitter)
Highlights
As his name suggests, he has a son named Hussam, but he avoids seeing him or his own mother in his current state, from which he can see no escape.
Viewing poverty is a complicated matter. Literary and film genres regularly harness human misery – coming-of-age stories, migration tales and, of course, the proverbial rags-to-riches stories.
These narrative tropes “work” by propelling protagonists out of misery.
Audiences, it seems, enjoy watching nice, destitute people pull themselves from the ditch of penury. It can renew your flagging sense of optimism about your own life – the human condition, late capitalism, the venal political class, state-sanctioned theft of your life savings, and so on. ....

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