Sea Monsters and Medieval Cartography
BibliOdyssey shares images and text from Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance maps. (Thanks, @Kinetograph!)
“Representation of Women in India Cinema and Beyond”
Text of Sharmila Tagore’s lecture on women and Indian cinema at the India International Centre. (via Memsaab Story)
Boxers & Saints: Finding People In History
<!– P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } –> If, like me, you have watched countless kung fu movies, then you’ll recognize this story: a boy goes with his father and elder brother to a local village festival. An ardent fan of Peking Opera, the boy goes off […]
“Bettie Page Gives Naughty a Good Name”
At Newsweek, Gogo Lidz profiles Betty Page and Mark Mori’s documentary about Page.
Joe Sacco’s Panorama of War
Artist Joe Sacco talks with NPR about his latest book, The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. It’s a 24 foot panorama of one day. “Each panel in the panorama is dense and detailed. Fresh troops march in looking eager […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Manuscripts
The Shelley-Godwin Archive has posted all available manuscripts of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Open Culture has a little more context–and a nice engraved frontispiece, “Frankenstein’s Creature,” made by W. Chevalier and T. Holst for the 1831 edition.
The Cultural Gutter 