BTS – Dostoyevsky Reimagined Archive

09 November

The Curious Case of a Missing Screenwriter and His Adaptation

Written by Calista Judith

Ever since film developed its voice as a medium, literature provided a never-ending catalog of work begging to be displayed on the silver screen. Characters that existed for decades (and sometimes centuries), were finally represented in a visual medium....

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22 October

VMP Film’s Short Films Have a Message For You: Remarkable AN LA STORY is Almost Out!

Written by Melodi Bac

In the old days, every movie ever made was short. In the mid-1910s feature length movies emerged. With the glorious age of feature movies rising, the shorts are cast aside. As time went by, people’s taste in entertainment changed....

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14 September

Independent Cinema: Insightful And Unique

Written by Melodi Bac

Once upon a time, in a land not-so-far away, a filmmaker moved to LA to become a big hit in Hollywood. He/She had dreams… Well, we all heard this story. However, we often don’t hear the end of it....

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29 March

Dostoyevsky and COVID-19

Written by Johnathen Rockwell

“At the end of 1879, the doctors examining Dostoyevsky discovered that he had a progressive lung disease. On the morning of February 28, Dostoevsky told his wife: ”I know I must die today!..” At 20:38 of the same day...

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01 February

Transmedia in Wrestling

Written by Nik Daniels

With entertainment juggernauts like Marvel and Star Wars, transmedia is arguably more prevalent than ever before. Transmedia is storytelling that covers multiple platforms. Marvel has its record-breaking box office films, but over the years they have expanded those stories...

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17 December

The Great Corona Bake Off

Written by Nik Daniels

We all, if we have taken the necessary precautions, are like Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man in 2020. Life goes on, but now life includes a more apparent deconstruction of society and its flaws. *** As holidays careen toward us during...

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04 November

Dostoyevsky in The Boys

Written by Nik Daniels

In a time where superhero movies are revered and box office juggernauts, audiences cannot escape the genre. If the 1950s and 1960s were the era of the Western, then the 2010s and 2020s are the era of the superhero...

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09 October

Wrestling as Literature

Written by Nik Daniels

When discussing Dostoevsky’s work, I often refer to Leonid Grossman’s quote in The Poetics of Dostoevsky where he says Dostoevsky wanted “to introduce the extraordinary into the very thick of commonplace, to fuse…the sublime with the grotesque, and push...

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25 September

Live From St. Petersburg, It’s Dostoyevsky Night Live!

Written by Jonah Desneux

Since his first major work Notes from the Underground was written in 1864, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s influence can be found in literature, philosophy, and even pop culture. Dostoyevsky’s ideas have transcended his original Russian audiences of the 19th century and are now...

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25 August

Beautiful Chaos: Nicolas Cage

Written by Nik Daniels

Daniel Day-Lewis. Denzel Washington. Viola Davis. Meryl Streep. All these A-list celebrities are magnificent choices for the greatest at their craft in America. Lists plague the internet discussing the greatest of all time. While it is rather arbitrary to...

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