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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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
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The Amorality of Business: Killing Them Softly and Inside Job
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On Love, Family, Class, Sex, and Conflict: Notes on Maurice Jamal’s comedy film Dirty Laundry, starring Rockmond Dunbar
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Political Paranoia as Prophecy: Tom Cruise as the besieged hero in Minority Report and Oblivion
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Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a film investigation into ancient paintings
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Love, Friendship, Death, Grief, and Absurdity: Silent Souls, directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko