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Drive is based on the novel of the same name by James Sallis, which is summarized thusly at Amazon:
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"Luckily, there has been an improvement in active video games," Sallis says.
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"Drive" was directed by Nicolas Winding Refn from Hossein Amini's adaptation of a noirish novel by James Sallis.
'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir Joe Morgenstern 2011
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I read the book by James Sallis that the movie is based on.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Eleven: Ryan Gosling Wows With "Drive" And More! Michael Giltz 2011
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Telling Sallis her daughter was dead was a horrible experience, Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld said.
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To me, James Sallis makes reading science fiction seem more like an effort to uncover "mind-set" and debate "conventions" than a potentially satisfying reading experience.
Genre Fiction 2010
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Sallis himself seems to indicate as much later in his essay when he writes of the way in which the "art of the thing takes over" in good fiction, but why does he then also insist that calling attention to the codednes, returning us to the "period in which it was written," is such a revelatory act?
Genre Fiction 2010
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Parents have to give their kids the tools to be active by making sure they have things like balls, Frisbees, jump-ropes and hula hoops, says James Sallis, director of the Active Living Research Program at San Diego State University.
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Sallis seems to be suggesting that science fiction in particular requires from later readers a knowledge of "the period in which it was written" because it more intensively reflects the social anxieties and concerns prevalent during that period (although this does clash with Sallis's further contention, in the next paragraph, that SF often "taps into grand themes and archetypes").
Genre Fiction 2010
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Other children need their time, too, Janice Sallis said.
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