For a project I'm currently working on as part of my graduation in Graphic Design, I wanted to compile something like an atlas of fictional cities. These may be from books, legends, stories, video games, advertisements, comics, really whatever... Even "real" cities but alternate versions, imagined or in some way deviate from their real counterpart are valid.
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posted by ahtlast93
on May 18, 2013 -
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I'm looking for the unexpected, overlooked masterpieces hiding within conventionally marginal artistic genres: novelty Christmas music albums, mass market cowboy novels, direct-to-video action movie sequels, etc.
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posted by Iridic
on May 7, 2013 -
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In film and literature, how does one deal with the smorgasbord of themes and lack of a single, unifying meaning?
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posted by archagon
on Nov 4, 2012 -
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Next year, I'll be travelling to the Netherlands and (briefly) Belgium, then later a trip to Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm. Are there any films or novels I should check out to get a feel for the places before I get there?
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posted by mippy
on Dec 18, 2011 -
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Looking for examples and/or literary history of a trope that I'd refer to as the Villains' Satan.
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posted by Navelgazer
on Jul 1, 2011 -
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Some of my best memories, when I think back on them, become more cinematic than linear, more musical than factual. They are a flowing montage of events, energy, motion. Often the memory is of an adventure or journey. Why does this happen? Who has written or made art about the capacity for our memories to be transformed in this way?
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posted by victory_laser
on May 27, 2011 -
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In what English movies or books would I most likely be exposed to new words? Any genre and time-period.
posted by keith0718
on Feb 3, 2011 -
34 answers
What are your favorite literary texts about oil and oil capitalism? I'm looking for anything from traditional realism to noir to science fiction, from poetry to film to comic books to video games to philosophy and theory. Anything could work. Bonus points if the focus is on globalization and/or Peak Oil and resource scarcity.
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posted by gerryblog
on Sep 24, 2010 -
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I know of Salinger's Glass family and of Hal Incandenza in
Infinite Jest. Who are your other favorite fictional child/adolescent geniuses? Literature preferred, although films are okay, too.
posted by Houyhnhnm
on May 16, 2010 -
33 answers
I have overly intense emotional reactions to literature, films, & TV shows. Please help me enjoy art like a normal person again.
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posted by granted
on Apr 26, 2010 -
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I'm looking for examples from literature, comic books, film, and other media, in which a character, for no clear reason (or unexpectedly), is a cowboy.
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posted by Astro Zombie
on Feb 15, 2010 -
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I'm interested in contemporary books (and films) that are set in the Mediterranean/European region between AD300 and AD800 (approximately, of course). Any suggestions?
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posted by hydatius
on Dec 4, 2009 -
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What is the name for the narrative technique whereby you start in media res in the middle of the story and then jump back to the beginning to tell the story in a nromal linear fashion?
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posted by ninebelow
on May 8, 2009 -
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Help with my homework filter!! I want to compile a list of time travelers from literature, television and cinema. I am looking for a couple specific attributes.
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posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Mar 9, 2009 -
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MovieQuoteFilter: I'm trying to find the origin of a quote from
Waking Life and I'm starting to think it's either misattributed or simply wrong. Help!
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posted by valkyryn
on Jan 28, 2009 -
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I'm looking for both films, books, and short stories where the story of a girl or a woman is told solely through the perspective of a male narrator.
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posted by zoomorphic
on Nov 13, 2008 -
31 answers
Pitching an upper-division English course on Literature and Film. Would like to focus on the films of the Coen Brothers, but need suggestions of novels, short stories, plays, etc. to pair with their movies. Any suggestions?
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posted by Saxon Kane
on Oct 31, 2008 -
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What science fiction films are there, iyho, that really measure up to the best of written work in that genre?
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posted by protorp
on Aug 31, 2008 -
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Help me find examples of literary criticism adopting the Jungian idea that all the characters are aspects of the same person.
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posted by leibniz
on Aug 29, 2008 -
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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?
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posted by es_de_bah
on May 4, 2008 -
53 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?
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posted by 0bvious
on Apr 2, 2008 -
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What are some famous stories that don't have a proper ending, like the series finale of the Sopranos?
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posted by lunchbox
on Oct 23, 2007 -
62 answers
What are tomorrow's avant-garde art/film/writing monuments that are being done today?
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posted by jayder
on Oct 2, 2007 -
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[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).
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posted by numinous
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.
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posted by biffa
on Jul 6, 2006 -
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Looking for books, essays, articles, any resources at all about film's relationship to literature.
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posted by meerkatty
on Mar 13, 2006 -
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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 by 0bvious
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 by ibeji
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 by slow, man
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.)
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posted by ferociouskitty
on Jan 22, 2004 -
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