Ziad Shihab

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Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation - Online, 8-10 Dec 2023

September 3rd, 2023

updated:     Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am    full name / name of organization:           Theatre and Drama Network (TDN)        contact email:     theatredramanetwork@gmail.com    categories (up to 5):     ecocriticism and environmental studiesfilm and televisiontheatretheorytwentieth century and beyond    deadline for submissions:     September 30, 2023In her work, A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon describes the term "adaptation" as "[a]n acknowledged transposition of a recog...

Futurama Confirms The Simpsons and Disenchantment Timeline

August 29th, 2023

This article contains spoilers for Futurama season 11 episode 6. The Matt Groening-verse just got a little bigger. The latest episode of Futurama, "I Know What You Did Next Xmas," finally confirms that The Simpsons, Futurama, and Disenchantment are connected by more than just writers and producers. But the timeline’s probably not what – or should we say when – you’re thinking. Disenchantment is Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein’s medieval fantasy-skewing follow-up to Futurama and The Sim...

From Leir to Lear

August 27th, 2023

From Leir to Lear Shakespeare, literary architect, performs a gut renovation and creates a classic. The execution of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot: Claes Jansz Visscher’s contemporary etching depicts Londoners gazing from rooftops, windows and streets as four Gunpowder plotters are drawn to the site of execution. James Shapiro ’77 is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature and an eminent Shakespeare specialist: the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at New Yo...

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Reservation Dogs recap - full Dazed And Confused

August 25th, 2023

Honestly, I’m surprised it took Reservation Dogs this long to make a 1970s-set flashback episode, but I will just be happy to savor the fact that we got it. Breaking away from the tone and style of the show (though playing with form has long been a hallmark of this FX gem), "House Made Of Bongs" goes full on Dazed And Confused to give us a stoner-comedy episode that illuminates the youthful indiscretions of many of the elders we’ve met through the course of the show’s three seasons—including ...

Origin of Noah’s Ark Story

July 13th, 2023

SEE: https://youtu.be/y2T-QeVY8mUUnveil the enthralling origins of the Biblical flood story in this captivating documentary. Delve into the ancient Mesopotamian flood myths, including the Sumerian flood myth, Atrahasis Epic, and Epic of Gilgamesh, and witness the undeniable connections to the iconic tale of Noah. From shared themes to linguistic correlations, we explore the rich tapestry of these ancient narratives, shedding light on their profound influence on the Genesis flood account.Join ...

Book of Theseus - At what point is a derivative work considered instead the Original

June 23rd, 2023

Disclaimer: This is not about something obvious à la "just do your own stuff, duh!" This is more about the ironic Intertextuality of the situation I'm kinda in.So, a few months ago, I started writing a fanfiction. It was related to an obscure cartoon who I have a love/hate relationship with. One of these reasons included it being internally broken, aka: Lore did either lack, not exist, or was scattered among various media like cartoons, a fucking MMO (for some reason) and a series of never-tr...

Simpsons and Citizen Kane

June 18th, 2023

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Middlemarch - Roberts

June 16th, 2023

In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In this li...

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy - A Grand Synthesis of American Literature

June 15th, 2023

In his 1992 interview with The New York Times, Cormac McCarthy said, "The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written." McCarthy’s fourth novel, 1979’s Suttree is such a book, a masterful synthesis of the great literature — particularly American literature — that came before it. And like any masterful synthesis, Suttree points to something new, even as it borrows, lifts, and outright steals from the past. But before we plumb it...

Canon-Breaking Easter Eggs in Black Mirror S6

June 15th, 2023

Black Mirror is an anthology, but it’s never shied away from connecting its stories together. From Season 1 through Netflix’s interactive Bandersnatch, each self-contained tale always seems to tie into a handful of others. There was even a whole episode, "Black Museum," chock full of "artifacts" from other episodes. Season 6 is no different. In fact, this season might have more Easter Eggs than any other, including one that harkens all the way back to the very first episode. Streamberry Is Fu...

Dr Strangelove - Leo Szilard and the Doomsday Men

June 3rd, 2023

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The Influence of Ancient Graeco-Roman Mystery Cults on Early Christianity

April 28th, 2023

Funerary stele of Licinia Amias on marble. One of the earliest Christian inscriptions found, it comes from the early 3rd century Vatican necropolis area in Rome. It contains the text ΙΧΘΥϹ ΖΩΝΤΩΝ ("fish of the living"), a predecessor of the Ichthys symbol. / Photo courtesy National Roman Museum, Wikimedia CommonsDid what initiates once heard and saw in the Mysteries transform into the historical Jesus?By Dr. Jan N. BremmerVisiting Research ScholarInstitute for the Study of the Ancient WorldNe...

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Hunters FingerLakes Tattoo

April 28th, 2023

WatsonWisteriaLockheed ScandalDetective ConanHouse of UsherCattleUpdate: BellsUpdate: Huner Biden Finger LakesI accept leads on several platforms but this week I received not just leads but 2 sets of connected patterns as a lead! I find patterns like they found every week and what I am seeing now proves readers are getting better at this all the time! As you’ll see by my decode of their findings… stuff like this unlocks a lot! We are rapidly approaching the full picture!The first one involves...

Decoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV by Jason Hellerman

April 22nd, 2023

Decoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV by Jason Hellermanhttps://nofilmschool.com/spy-genre-film-and-tv-definition-examplesOne of the earliest spy movies was The Battle of Port Arthur (1904), a silent film produced by the Edison Company that depicted the Russo-Japanese WarDecoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV (Definition and Examples)SourceURL: https://nofilmschool.com/spy-genre-film-and-tv-definition-examplesALSO published with original formatting in Rootbeer Review -zasIt's time to...

How McCarthyism Created Climate Change + UFO + Countdowns

April 19th, 2023

Interstate Wedding, Emerald Green, McCarthy & Bilderberg, Update 1: Ending a Win Streak 13, Climate Change & McCarthyism, International Gov Sports Coordination, Knows/Nose, World Summary, UFO, 17 Walks. Update 2: Countdown Update Symbols don’t need to be proportional, but they often are. One of the best ways I have to solve comms involves looking for a pattern of two maximums that have no connection to one another yet inexplicably happened at the same exact time. Examining ...

The New Testament Use of the Old Testament

March 24th, 2023

Dr. Gregory K. Beale, Professor of New Testament at RTS Dallas, returns to the program to speak about a wide array of topics touching upon the study of the Bible. After speaking about an exciting upcoming conference and workshop in Plano, Texas, Dr. Beale discusses developments in Old and New Testament studies over the last several decades, the nature of intertextuality and biblical theology, future areas ripe for new research, and research methods and tools. Links Conference: Preaching...

6 Easter Eggs From ‘The Nun’ (2018)

March 21st, 2023

The Nun (2018) takes the mysterious demon disguised as a nun from the shadows of The Conjuring 2 (2016), Annabelle: Creation (2017), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019) and explores its blood-soaked roots at The Cârța Monastery in Romania. The Conjuring Universe is rich with Easter Eggs whose significance is often revealed with each new installment. With that in mind, as we prepare for The Nun 2 (2023), let’s look at the Easter Eggs and tie-ins for The Nun (spoilers ahead). Frenchie Is Mau...

Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance

February 26th, 2023

Who’s on the Guest List?‘The School of Athens’, Raphael, c.1509–11 (Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City).Like Studying Homer in a "Damaged Manuscript"Raphael (1483–1520) is the most influential painter of the Italian Renaissance; his work embodies the balance, order, harmony and restraint of classicism. He was a passionate antiquarian, and used his expertise as an archaeologist as an inspiration for his art; yet he was too dignified to show off his knowledge, preferring to ...

White Noise - the original from 1995

February 9th, 2023

White Noise Reviewed by: Martin Gray Architect Jonathan Rivers is proving unable to rebuild his life after his novelist second wife Anna disappears. He mopes, he neglects his weekend son Mike, he moves into a truly soulless apartment (typical architect). He hangs on to the hope that her story isn't ove...

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Hells Heroes or - The Three Godfathers

January 22nd, 2023

The original version of this tale was a short story, "Broncho Billy and the Baby",  which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910 and was the basis for an Essanay short film of the same name. The short story  is credited as the basis for Kyne’s later novel ‘The Three Godfathers’ in 1913; an online version is dated 1916 and would seem no longer than the original story. Set in Arizona, the basic plot has a gang of bank robbers stumble on a covered wagon where a dying woman entrusts her ba...

Loving Stories within Stories

January 17th, 2023

SEE ALSO: post published in Rootbeer Review-zasAfter an unplanned visit to the Cardiac Care Unit, I'm under strict orders not to stress and/or work, for now.... but of course, I can muse, and an idea that grabbed me is that of intertextuality. I've written about it before, so this is basically a repost. See? I am NOT stressing or working, but I did want to share. After all, it's my day to post at the @supernaturalunderground, you know, where books make the heart beat faster? (Haha!)In a more ...

Storystorm 2023 Day 8 - Kathleen Doherty Exercises Intertextuality

January 10th, 2023

by Kathleen Doherty Happy Eighth Day of Storystorm! One of my favorite topics is INTERTEXTUALITY—a literary theory that whatever you create, is influenced by something you’ve heard, seen, or read before. In other words, intertextuality is borrowing ideas from another piece of literature and using them to shape a new text. It’s not lifting another person’s work word-for-word. As you know, that’s called plagiarism. Mark Twain said, "There is no such thing as a new idea. It is imposs...