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 MUSIC Danny Elfman's Music for a Darkened People Big glossy site for this excellent movie composer. The Grainger Museum University of Melbourne site for Percy Aldridge Grainger. Hildegard von Bingen The multi-talented 12th century mystic, writer, composer - and migraine sufferer. I Hate Music Tanya Headon's enjoyable diatribes on why she hates music - all of it. Scott Joplin (1868-1917) DECOY's page on the now-celebrated composer of piano rags, winner of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. MelodyHound Musical theme database using Parsons Code (simple up-down-repeat system). See also ThemeFinder. Movie Music UK Detailed source - reviews and links - on an under-rated genre. Musical Acoustics Group University of New South Wales; Chladni figures for violins and other interesting stuff. 
Oddmusic "for anyone interested
in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments".Themefinder Another theme database, with more sophisticated options than MelodyHound. Tom Lehrer Poison those pigeons with the mathematician and musical satirist. ThereminWorld Good vibrations: the electronic instrument, played without touching, invented by Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeivitch Termen). BOOKS & AUTHORS Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) One of many sites featuring William Gibson's 1992 poem. The Annotated Watchmen Concordance to the great graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The Difference Dictionary Historical concordance to Gibson & Sterling's steampunk novel, The Difference Engine. Dysthymic Dicks: On the Melancholic Shamus, from Dupin to Cracker: the depressive psychology of the modern fictional detective. GASLIGHT E-text and discussion site for the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, 1800-1919. "Gone with the Wind" and Hollywood's Racial Politics. How racist elements of Margaret Mitchell's book were toned down for the movie. Edgar Governo, historian of things that never were Links to timelines from fictional genres. Kilgore Trout Page What do Samuel R Delany, Nicholson Baker and Anne Rice have in common? The HP Lovecraft Archive The influential 1920s pulp horror writer. Lurid Paperback of the Week Book cover art of a bygone era. Magical Realism Page. Evelyn C Leeper's site on the literary/fantasy genre. Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest Peter Huber's revision/refutation of 1984 (includes PDF online version). The Poe Decoder Edgar Allan Poe: interesting analysis of his stories, and good Poe links. Riddley Walker Page for Russell Hoban's cult post-Apocalypse literary novel, at Dave Awl's Head of Orpheus Hoban site. Samuel R Delany Information Jay Schuster's excellent fan page compiling Delany sources. Sherlockian.Net Comprehensive Sherlock Holmes site: Conan Doyle stories, analysis, pastiches, Holmes clones, etc. ShinE (Shakespeare in Europe): massive University of Basel resource of WS texts, analysis, etc. Violet Books Paghat's brilliant essays on the byways of literature; Marie Corelli, Rider Haggard, Amazons, Magic Realism, an Israeli Tarzan, and more. Weird old comic book covers Comics reflecting 1950s USA agendas that now seem bizarre, quaint or objectionable. |
Chris Willis Home
page with superb collection of Victoriana centred on detective fiction,
particularly the lesser-known fictional female detectives. The Worlds of Keith Roberts Resource on the late author of Pavane. VARIOUS ARTS Altered States Eric Pettifor on the possible origin of cave art in 'entoptic' visual effects. Ansel Adams Link page for the work of this great American landscape photographer. Arcimboldo The strange composite portraits of Guiseppe Arcimboldo. ArtMagick Virtual museum focusing on lesser-known 19th-20th century artists. Colour order systems in art and science Various categorisations of colour by practical and/or aesthetic effect. Digital Michelangelo Project to create an authoritative 3D computer archive of the sculptures of Michelangelo. Hieronymus Bosch. WebMuseum site for Jerome Bosch, the great mediaeval surrealist. The Contortion Home Page The physical art of the contortionist. Delightful Machines David M MacMillan's page on automata, clocks, kinetic sculpture, etc. Erotic fantasy postcards Early 19th century composite portraits. Felix Grant Artist, writer, statistician, and all-round clever person. Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database NYU Medical Humanities Department's concordance to books, films and art with a medical theme. The Mirror Project Self-portraits, JPG less than 30K, 300 pixel maximum dimension, taken in some reflecting surface. Musee Fragonard Museum for Honore Fragonard, 18th century anatomist who left remarkable preserved artistic/ medical dissections (site in French). Museum of Depressionist Art: cleverly doctored classic paintings and spoof commentary. Museum of Jurassic Technology Strange and quaint museum, where factual and fictional exhibits mingle. Symbols.com On-line encyclopedia of 2500+ graphic symbols, from Cro-Magnon ideograms to subway graffiti, indexed by meaning and graphic form. Tattoo History Source Book Taster from Steve Gilbert's worldwide history of tattooing. Uranium Glass Gallery Ken Tomabechi's site on this beautiful yellow-green fluorescent glass. Welcome to Catland Louis Wain, cat illustrator whose style mirrored his schizophrenia. The Wonderful Caddis Worm Insect 'artists' tricked into making larval cases from gold and jewels. MOVIES & TV Chronophotographical Projections Early time-sequence photography that predated movies. Colin's Movie Monologue Page. The soliloquy is alive and well! DeMille's Lost City : the rediscovered sets of the classic Ten Commandments. Fourth World Heavenly Creatures; detailed background on Peter Jackson's film of the 1950s Parker-Hulme murder case. Ghosts of Steel and Glass: the World Trade Center on Film Despite attempts to expunge images, the buildings still appear in movies. Heroic Apocalypse: "Mad Max, Mythology and the Millennium". Internet Movie Database Superb database of films, actors, etc. Minding One's P's and Q's - Homoeroticism in Star Trek: The Next Generation: analysis of John de Lancie's characterisation of Q. Movie Cliches List "You vill die, Meester Bond, ven I switch on zis untried Heath-Robinson device." The Nine-Act Structure Home Page: the plot structure of top-grossing film scripts. Titanic Bloopers The many failures in the much-hyped historical accuracy of this movie. What's Really Going On In Hollywood Analysis of cultural bias in movies. silent-movies.com Nice galleries of silent movie stars, and focus on the Roscoe ('Fatty') Arbuckle scandal. |
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