Help me find examples of literary criticism adopting the Jungian idea that all the characters are aspects of the same person. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2008 - 16 answers

Trying to make a list of fictional drinks. For instance: Clementine mixxes up a couple of "blue ruins" in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Silver Jews' song Buckingham Rabbit makes reference to "shattered dogs on the rocks." What other fictional drinks can you think of? [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2008 - 51 answers

Recursion filter: I recently came across the phrase 'Mise en Abyme' and have become fascinated by recursion in literature, language and film. What writings have used these themes in their form to address the questions they posed? [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2008 - 18 answers

What are some famous stories that don't have a proper ending, like the series finale of the Sopranos? [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 62 answers

What are tomorrow's avant-garde art/film/writing monuments that are being done today? [more inside]
posted on Oct 2, 2007 - 17 answers

What are some good (not science fiction or fantasy) films that started as short stories? [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2007 - 33 answers

[Man’s-Journey-to-find-himself-Filter]: I am looking for works of film and fiction that employ the imagery of traversing a difficult path/passageway as a metaphor for man’s inner journey toward connection with his unconscious shadow (in the Jungian sense of the term). [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2007 - 37 answers

Heroic suicide bombers. I'd like some good examples from western film and literature of suicide bombers being depicted as heroic. [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2006 - 58 answers

Looking for books, essays, articles, any resources at all about film's relationship to literature. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2006 - 10 answers

Fiction usually comes in two flavours: 1st person narrative or 3rd person description. What short stories or novels have been written in 2nd person perspective (i.e. from the reader's viewpoint)? Also, are there any movies shot entirely from this angle?
posted on Jan 17, 2006 - 63 answers

Twins of the world! This is a question for you: what media (books, movies, documentaries, poems, photographs, paintings etc), fiction or non, do you feel best expresses your own experience as a twin? All lengthy anecdotes welcome :-) [Here's your opportunity to deny or confirm the suspicion that all twins love the Polish Brothers.]
posted on Nov 29, 2005 - 22 answers

I'm looking for book or movie characters and/or plots that follow this particular scenario: A prisoner or potential rescue victim are told that salvation (being broken out, being rescued) can come only if the person agrees to have all prior memories and events that make up their personalities wiped out, leaving only a blank, but functioning, 'consciousness.' Any ideas? Specific quotes?
posted on Oct 4, 2005 - 21 answers

I'm searching for a dedicated listing of movies/television episodes with direct links and/or crafty allusions to classic literature, a la "Clueless" to "Emma," or "The Lion King" to "Hamlet." (Or various episodes of The Simpsons to a whole bunch of different things.)
posted on Jan 22, 2004 - 11 answers