Fox Hunting in Wyrd Landscape Cinema

Few events take place in the countryside as brutal as fox hunting. It is one that highlights the class divisions still present in this country, far more powerfully than most other country pursuits. Aside from obvious power on display by those who still, quite illegally, partake in it, even before its ban in 2004 it had become a symbol of the ultimate violence of the … Continue reading Fox Hunting in Wyrd Landscape Cinema

Village Green Repression in Film, Television and Philip Larkin.

Mythological Introduction by Philip Larkin. A white girl lay on the grass With her arms held out for love; her goldbrown hair fell down her face, And her two lips move: See, I am the whitest cloud that strays Through a deep sky: I am your senses’ crossroads, where the four seasons lie. She rose up in the middle of the lawn And spread her … Continue reading Village Green Repression in Film, Television and Philip Larkin.