Academy Awards, Documentaries, and the People’s Choices
Patricia Aufderheide looks at her favorite documentary films.
Memoirs of a Film Groupie: The European Premier of Sweeney Todd
Judith Luna, Commissioning Editor of the Oxford World’s Classics, tells us about the European premiere of Sweeney Todd.
Documentaries Come Out of the Shadow at Sundance
Patricia Aufderheide provides some Sundance recommendations.
Milton in 2008
Four hundred years after the birth of John Milton, he still lives, his example still inspires, his words still echo. “Paradise Lost” is played on the stage, is sung to music, is choreographed for a ballet; it is an audiobook, the subject of countless theses and dissertations – and even paintings.
Sweeney Todd
The trailer to Sweeney Todd.
This Day In History: Happy Birthday Tolkien
Happy birthday J.R.R. Tolkien!
Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Robert Mack teaches us about Sweeney Todd.
The Sweeney Todd Phenomenon
The incarnations of Sweeney Todd.
Charles Dickens and Sweeney Todd
Yesterday, Robert Mack, the editor of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, wrote about the unknown author of Sweeney Todd. Today Mack looks at Dickens’s influence. This post first appeared on Powell’s. The original publisher of Sweeney Todd, Edward Lloyd, in whose journal The People’s Periodical and Family Library first appeared in 1846-7, […]
Who Wrote Sweeney Todd?
Who wrote Sweeney Todd?
Lustful Cannibalism
A closer look at Sweeney Todd.
New Words on the Block: Back When “Movies” Were Young
Ben Zimmer looks at the origin of the word “movie.”
Lights, Camera, Action!
A look at the film Numb.
Sex With Mae West
An excerpt from Mae West: An Icon in Black and White.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: Heroes
Do you see any similarities between Beowulf and any particular modern day hero?
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: The Book V. Movie
Which do you think of changing the endings to literary masterpieces?