Contributors
Daniel Garrett
Daniel Garrett, a child of the American south, Louisiana, where he grew up reading, taking photographs, and enjoying fishing and a good summer barbecue. Daniel moved to New York and became a graduate of the New School for Social Research, was an intern at Africa Report, poetry editor for the male feminist magazine Changing Men, founded and acted as principal organizer of the Cultural Politics Discussion Group at ABC No Rio and Poets House, wrote about painter Henry Tanner for Art & Antiques, and organized the first interdepartmental environmental justice meeting at Audubon. Long interested in human complexity, intelligence, experiment, and cultural diversity, Garrett has researched various cultures, and he wrote about fiction and poetry for World Literature Today and international film for Offscreen, and has done music reviews that constitute a history of popular music for The Compulsive Reader. His work has appeared as well in The African, All About Jazz, American Book Review, Black Film Review, Cinetext, Contact II, Film International, The Humanist, Hyphen, Illuminations, Muse Apprentice Guild, Option, Pop Matters, Quarterly Black Review of Books, Rain Taxi, Red River Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Wax Poetics. He returned to the south, where he worked on philosophical fiction, the novel A Stranger on Earth.
Articles by Daniel Garrett
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The Cosmopolitan Perspective, the Rebellious Impulse: The Matrix trilogy and Snowpiercer ( Part 1)
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Expressions of Generational Conflict: Elia Kazan’s film interpretation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, featuring James Dean
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Our Passion Is Our Task: Sexual Ethics in the films Splendor in the Grass And The Paperboy
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Beautiful Light, Vibrant Things, Speaking Minds: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder
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Poet of Body and Soul: Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and the film Kill Your Darlings
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Enlightenment: Wes Anderson’s film The Darjeeling Limited, featuring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman
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A Portrait of an Artist as a Handsome, Smart, Tough Black Dude: Laurence Fishburne in School Daze, Bad Company, Othello, The Matrix, Armored and other films
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Suspense, Shock, and a Horrifying Family: the film Stoker, written by Wentworth Miller, directed by Park Chan-wook, and starring Nicole Kidman
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Marlon Brando as Thinker and Actor in Julius Caesar, The Young Lions, One-Eyed Jacks, Last Tango in Paris, and A Dry White Season
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The Progress (and Problem) of an American Girl: Jennifer Lopez in Selena, Out of Sight, The Cell, Maid in Manhattan, and El Cantante