Sam Cane
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Humanities Student |
| Location | Fakenham, Norfolk, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a researcher in the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. I work on Philosophy of Death, supervised by Professor Geoffrey Scarre. Passionate about Arts Journalism, I have been published in a number of regional newspapers, among them The Press (York), The Sunderland Echo, and The Northern Echo (Darlington). Outside of journalism, I have worked at the Tower of London and for a consultancy in Beijing. At Pembroke College Ivory Tower Society, Cambridge, I hosted lectures by Sir Christopher Hum, formerly HM Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, on the 2008 Beijing Olympics; historian Christina Hardyment on Medieval Chronicler Thomas Malory; and Professor Sir John Barrow on scientific imagery. At the Durham Union Society, I hosted Journalist and former MI5 Intelligence Officer Annie Machon, on the post-9/11 world, the War on Terror, and the role of Intelligence Agencies; historian Alison Weir on Mary Boleyn; and Quilliam Foundation Senior Analyst Noman Benotman, on the emergence of Islamism in the UK. My interests, outside of the Arts and of Philosophy, include the Middle East, Parisian history and culture, International Relations, and the rise of China. |
| Interests | Journalism, Current Affairs, Arts Criticism, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Theatre, History, Archaeology |
| Favorite Movies | The Piano, A Room With A View, The Remains of the Day, Howards End, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Shadowlands, 84 Charing Cross Road, Gosford Park, A Man for All Seasons, Rain Man, Accident, If..., Performance, The Day of the Jackal, The Passion of Joan of Arc, La Règle du jeu, À bout de souffle, Jules et Jim, Shoot the Pianist, Weekend, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Three Colours Trilogy, Cinema Paradiso, Festen, Jacquot de Nantes, Raise the Red Lantern, The Scent of Green Papaya, Un Chien Andalou, M, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, It's A Wonderful Life, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dr Strangelove, The Graduate, Easy Rider, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Railway Children, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, Dead Poets Society, The Ice Storm, Withnail & I, Shakespeare In Love, Pulp Fiction, Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, All The President's Men, JFK, Nixon, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Billy Elliot |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Vivaldi, Elgar, Barber, Delibes, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Satie, Holst, Gorecki, Saint-Saëns, Wagner, Gershwin, Ennio Morricone, Lauridsen, Arvo Pärt, Karl Jenkins, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Patrick Doyle; The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, Blondie, Green Day, Nirvana, U2, The Pixies, David Bowie, Gets & Gilberto, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers, The Verve, Coldplay, Crowded House, Lady Gaga, Thomas Newman |
| Favorite Books | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Chomsky), Letter from America (Cooke), Hidden Agendas (Pilger), My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times (Harold Evans), Unreliable Sources; Strange Places, Questionable People (Simpson), My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism (Marr), Give Me Ten Seconds (Sergeant), A Passage to Africa (Alagiah), Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain?, The Political Animal (Paxman), Nine Lives (Dalrymple), What Does China Think? (Leonard), China Shakes the World (Kynge), The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century (Hutton), City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China (Becker), The Golden Peak: Travels in North Pakistan (Jamie), The Defence of The Realm (Andrew), The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (Estulin), Four Quartets (Eliot), The Story of Art (Gombrich), The Continental Renaissance: 1500-1600 (Krailsheimer), Islamic Art & Architecture (Hillenbrand), Ways of Seeing (Berger), Art & Its Objects (Wollheim), Greek Art (Boardman), Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art (Staniszewski), What Is Art? (Tolstoy) Girl in a Green Gown: The History & Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait (Hicks), Art of the Middle Ages (Benton), Art & Beauty in the Middle Ages, On Beauty (Eco), Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting (Sassoon), Marxism & Art (Solomon), From Baudelaire to Surrealism (Raymond), That Was Satire That Was (Carpenter), A History of Christianity (MacCulloch), Islam: A Short History (Armstrong), Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), Human, All Too Human (Nietzsche), Labyrinths (Borges), Brave New World (Huxley), The Outsider (Camus), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) Sophie's World (Gaarder), What Does it All Mean? (Nagel), The Meaning of Things (Grayling), The Language Instinct (Pinker), The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud), Moab is my Washpot, Chronicles (Fry), Porterhouse Blue (Sharpe) |