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The Women Who Wrote Noir in c/movies@moist.catsweat.com
The Women Who Wrote Noir in c/movies@moist.catsweat.com
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The Women Who Wrote Noir (files.mastodon.social)
 

The Women Who Wrote Noir“I never met Ida Lupino, but I always wanted to,” wrote Martin Scorsese in the New York Times in 1995. “The six films she directed between 1949 and 1953 are remarkable chamber pieces that deal with challenging subjects in a clear, almost documentary fashion, and are a singular achievement in American cinema.”By David Hudsoncriterion.com/current/posts/93#books #literature #roman_noir #movies #culture

Photo of Ida Lupino from an appearance on the radio program Cavalcade of America. A glamorous black-and-white studio portrait of a woman with short, curly, light-tinted hair and dark lipstick, gazing off to the side. She wears jeweled earrings, a small cross necklace and a white V-neck top with a bold printed pattern, before a shimmering sequined backdrop.
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Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf? (files.mastodon.social)
 

Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf?Surreal, mysterious and with an outlandish origin story, Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa has amassed a cult following that includes Salman Rushdie and Jerry Garcia. But it’s the book’s global humanism makes it relevant now, say the curators of a new exhibitionby Tobias Greytheguardian.com/books/2026/novMore informationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manu#books #literature #cult #movies #culture

Jan Potocki, by Anton Graff, 1785. An 18th-century oval oil portrait of a young man with wavy, shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark coat over a white open-collared shirt with a ruffled jabot, his arms folded and a faint smile on his face, against a gray-green background.
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Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (files.mastodon.social)
 

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928).A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America, directed by Melville Weber and James Sibley Watson, Jr.publicdomainreview.org/collectThe Fall of the House of Usher at PG:gutenberg.org/ebooks/932#Books #Literature #Movies

Harry Clarke, The Fall of the House of Usher. Say, rather, the rending of her coffin. (Illustration for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe.) Two horrified figures recoil over an open book as nightmarish creatures — a roaring dragon-beast and a bleeding prostrate figure — emerge in a swirling, macabre dreamscape. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher#/media/File:Harry_Clarke_The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher.jpg
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How Georges Méliès Brought Magic to the Movies (files.mastodon.social)
 

How Georges Méliès Brought Magic to the MoviesGeorges Méliès created worlds of magic and adventure that revolutionized filmmaking when filmmaking itself was still a novelty.by Kat Bello (from the archives)thecollector.com/georges-melieMovie books at PG:gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf#books #movies #culture

Screenshot from Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902) by Roger-Viollet One of cinema's most iconic images: the Man in the Moon with a rocket capsule lodged in his eye, from Georges Méliès's "Le Voyage dans la Lune" (A Trip to the Moon, 1902). The moon is rendered as a grimacing human face, the capsule embedded like an arrow. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s#/media/Fichier:Le_Voyage_dans_la_lune.jpg/2
Watch "Why 'Metropolis', Fritz Lang's Silent Movie, Still Defines Sci‑Fi 100 Years Later" in c/movies@moist.catsweat.com
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When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln (files.mastodon.social)
 

When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln"In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn’t hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson"by Lucas E. Morel and Jonathan W. Whitesmithsonianmag.com/history/hisBooks by Frederick Douglass at PG:gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34#history #americanhistory #blackhistorymonth

Photograph of Frederick Douglass. He sitting in profile.
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The Cultural and Historical Evolution of Soccer to the World’s Favorite Game (files.mastodon.social)
 

The Cultural and Historical Evolution of Soccer to the World’s Favorite Game"Soccer has been played in some form for hundreds of years globally, but where did it come from and how has it changed culture along the way?"thecollector.com/cultural-histBooks about football at PG:gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/8#sports #history

"The Doonies versus the Croonies on New Year’s Day" by Alexander Carse, circa 1810, the oldest known example of a football painting. Shows a group men playing a football game in a field. There are men on the side getting ready to join the game. There are boys and women watching the game.
The Interesting Origins Behind Putting Oranges in Christmas Stockings in c/history@fedia.io
The Interesting Origins Behind Putting Oranges in Christmas Stockings in c/history@fedia.io
The Interesting Origins Behind Putting Oranges in Christmas Stockings in c/history@fedia.io
The Interesting Origins Behind Putting Oranges in Christmas Stockings in c/history@fedia.io
Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life in c/history@fedia.io
In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ the Titular Scientist Laments His Nightmarish Creation in c/movies@moist.catsweat.com
Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know in c/history@fedia.io
The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart in c/history@fedia.io
Watching the World in a Dark Room The Early Modern Camera Obscura in c/photography@fedia.io
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