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Your Critic is in Another Castle: The Age of the Dragons, part II: The Tragedie of Kirkwalle
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Your Critic is in Another Castle. Monday, January 9, 2012. The Age of the Dragons, part II: The Tragedie of Kirkwalle. Two households, both alike in dignity,. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;. Whole misadventured piteous overthrows. Do with their death bury their parents' strife. That the story would end badly. The ...
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Your Critic is in Another Castle: "I'm trying to undo it, remember?"
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Your Critic is in Another Castle. Tuesday, October 4, 2011. I'm trying to undo it, remember? This entire post discusses the story and endings of. Bastion at length and in depth. Consider this a spoiler warning.]. The revelations all came from Zia; she was my key to understanding Bastion. Finding The Singer and realizing that her song was diegetic sound - source music. Or an Ura spiritual. This beautiful, haunting melody is a message from the oppressed to their oppressors, heralding a coming war. Do we lo...
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Your Critic is in Another Castle: The Gamer's Gaze, part 1
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Your Critic is in Another Castle. Monday, June 20, 2011. The Gamer's Gaze, part 1. Is a term you hear thrown around quite a bit in critical media studies. It is, at once, both simple and complex. Gaze" It's as easy as looking, right? And at its most basic level, that's exactly what the phenomenon describes: who is looking, what is being looked at, and why? All visual arts have, in one way or another, a built-in gaze that can be examined and analyzed. In the 1970s, film theorist Laura Mulvey. In its most ...
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