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3 days ago · Until the invention of movies, which became the main source of prison tales for much of the 20th century, this imagery was limited. In today’s media culture there are seemingly endless choices; references to prison can be found in nearly every aspect of the media and popular culture—from children’s cartoons, music, and beer bottles to movies, documentaries, and television programs.
5 days ago · Key Takeaways: Popular Story Structures. Freytag’s Pyramid: A five-stage structure involving an introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and catastrophe. It’s often used in tragedies. The Fichtean Curve: Focuses on rising action through multiple crises, leading to a climax and a brief falling action.
5 days ago · This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history. In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright.
4 days ago · Ania Morkryzka talks with Atai Ilgun in an expansive bigger than life interview, visual essay where the artist delved deep into his intriing practices
4 days ago · Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig.Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (in their feature directorial debuts) and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman, it is the first installment in the Shrek film series.
3 days ago · Several tales in the One Thousand and One Nights use the self-fulfilling prophecy, as a special form of literary prolepsis, to foreshadow what is going to happen. This literary device dates back to the story of Krishna in ancient Sanskrit literature, and Oedipus or the death of Heracles in the plays of Sophocles.
20 hours ago · The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentiethcentury operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners.
