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Books: Review:Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals

11 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

As Everything Is Illuminated author Jonathan Safran Foer prepares to accompany an anonymous activist on a 3 a.m. raid of a factory farm in his new nonfiction book Eating Animals, he runs through a litany of his qualifications. He’s “not a journalist, activist, veterinarian, lawyer, or philosopher”; growing up in New Jersey, he claims never to have approached a farm animal before, except as dinner. He’s just an Everyguy who stumbled into an industrial chicken coop. But because Foer can never decide whether to play the Michael Moore-esque bumbler or the credible expert, his book-length report on ... »

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Jonathan Safran Foer Reads from Eating Animals

5 November 2009 9:24 AM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

In his first work of nonfiction, author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) takes a critical look at America’s animal agriculture system. Eating Animals, out this week from Little, Brown and Company, explores all facets of meat production and consumption—from the environmental effects and worker rights issues, to the genetic modification of animals and harrowing factory practices. In this exclusive audio excerpt, Foer examines today’s factory farm pig breeds, which have been so genetically modified that they can no longer survive in the natural world, but instead live in climate-controlled buildings, cut off from the sun and seasons. Listen to the podcast after the jump. »

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Film School 101: Protagonists

1 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

First off I need to apologize for the tardiness of this entry.  I was infected with the swine pandemic and was unable to do anything but utter “Bbbbraaaiiinsssss…” feebly from my bed.  Now I’m up and about again, so here we go.

One of the first things to do when making your movie is figure out who your main character is going to be.  Now, you may pick your plot first and then figure what kind of protagonist you want or you may pick your characters and write about what they do – it all depends on your style of writing.  In either case, understanding your protagonist(s) is very important since these are the people whom the plot revolves around, who we will come to know and love and who we will follow for the next 120 minutes.  They will be our tour guides through your movie so you have »

- Marco Duran

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