This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
BBC Archives shares video of Ray Harryhausen talking about his work on Clash of the Titans (1981)! “Ray Harryhausen – master of models, magician with miniatures, the stop-motion Svengali, doyen of Dynamation–pops into the Take Two studio, to discuss producing the special effects for his latest film blockbuster, […]
Werewolf Week continues at Sententiae Antiquae with “Herodotus’s Lycanthropic Tribe.”
At the New Yorker, Jill Lepore considers the intertwining histories of women’s suffrage, feminism, Amazons and Wonder Woman. “It isn’t only that Wonder Woman’s backstory is taken from feminist utopian fiction. It’s that, in creating Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston was profoundly influenced by early-twentieth-century suffragists, feminists, and […]
This week SF/F Editor Emeritus James Schellenberg returns as a Guest Star! Stories are important, we all know this. I hasten to add: and they should be fun too, otherwise why bother reading them? Every once in a while, I run across a new author that balances “something […]
Mary Beard writes about gender, speech, and the depiction of the sound of women’s voices from Homer’s time until now. “I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; […]
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The Cultural Gutter 