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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Heroism in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate
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The Girl Rebel, the Glamorous Woman: Ava DuVernay’s film of a woman’s independence, love, loss, and memory, I Will Follow
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On African-American Women in Film, in Eve’s Bayou, For Colored Girls, The Help, and Love & Basketball
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Unacceptable Truth and Useful Lies: Monsieur Lazhar, a French language film about childhood, death, grief, and mentoring
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Islam Unknown: Interviews with Muslim Intellectuals on Film
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Comrades, Comes the Revolution: David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago and Warren Beatty’s Reds
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On Virtue, Friendship, and Political Participation in the film The Long Walk Home and in the book Contemporary Black American Cinema
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The Journey Itself is Home: John Akomfrah’s film meditation on immigration in Britain, The Nine Muses
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Friendship, Ideas, Sex, and a New Movement: A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg
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The New Candor in Male Friendship Films: Will Reiser’s screenplay 50/50, as directed by Jonathan Levine