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Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa is a novel far removed from its genre. Written by a woman who moved to Kenya to start a life with her husband, she was left with a disintegrated marriage and no idea how to pick up the pieces of her life. In the wake of her new life, she decided to stay behind in Kenya, as her estranged husband left, in order to manage a coffee plantation. Blixen knew immediately, as she fell in love with the landscape and the people, that she would never call another place her home. Her time Continue reading...

George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story (1940) is one of the most critically acclaimed comedies of the 1940s, receiving six Oscar nominations and winning two (Best Screenplay, Donald Ogden Stewart and Best Actor, James Stewart) (Oscars.org, 2014). The tale of a divorced couple (played by Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn) who find themselves reuniting in the face of the wife’s upcoming, highly-publicized second marriage, is a perfect example of the kind of quick-witted smoothness and laidback slapstick indicative of the best comedies of the Golden Age. Director George Cukor, in his handling of the theatrical, fast-paced staging and Continue reading...

“Out of Africa,” by Isak Dinesen, is a grand, sweeping, epic tale of one woman’s fully coming of age in a land that, by rights, might have felt foreign to her, but into which she fits, as she says in her own words, “Here I am, where I ought to be.”(Dinesen 4). The book is autobiographical, but she has left out of it many aspects that one might have expected her to tell, such the details of her love affairs with the Baron Bror Blixen (to whom she was married) and with Denys Finch-Hatton, and focused instead Continue reading...