Quotulatiousness

October 31, 2020

Atun-Shei’s Dracula

Filed under: Books, Britain, Europe, History, Media — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Atun-Shei Films
Published 30 Oct 2020

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An in-depth analysis of Dracula, the original 1897 book by Bram Stoker, possibly the most influential horror novel ever written. Why has the Count enjoyed such longevity in popular culture? What made Dracula so scary for Victorian readers? And what – pray tell – makes vampires so attractive?

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~REFERENCES~

[1] “Dracula Movies” (2016). IMDB https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058255047/

[2] Leslie S. Klinger. The New Annotated Dracula (2008). W.W. Norton & Company, Page xvi

[3] Klinger, Page xxi

[4] Dr. Andrzej Diniejko. “Slums and Slumming in Late-Victorian London.” The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/history/s…

[5] Gill Davies. “London in Dracula; Dracula in London” (2004). Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, Volume 2 Number 1 http://www.literarylondon.org/london-…

[6] Klinger, xxxii-xli

[7] “An 1897 Review of Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (2019). Literary Hub https://bookmarks.reviews/an-1897-rev…

[8] “The Spectator‘s Review of Dracula, 1897″ (2012). The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/t…

[9] olly Furneaux. “Victorian Se•ualities” (2014). British Library https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victo…

[10] Klinger, Page xvii-xviii

[11] Greg Buzwell. “Daughters of Decadence: The New Woman in the Victorian Fin De Siécle” (2014). British Library https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victo…

The Banality of Death – War Against Humanity 021 – October 1941 Pt. 2

Filed under: Europe, France, Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 29 Oct 2020

French resistance members liquidate a high-ranking German officer, triggering a series of retaliatory actions by the German occupiers. Meanwhile, actions in the “Holocaust of Bullets” continue in the east as German forces move further into the USSR, taking Odessa.

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Written by: Joram Appel
Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Joram Appel
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
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Jaris Almazani (Artistic Man) – https://instagram.com/artistic.man?ig…
Carlos Ortega Pereira – BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations
Tzo15 – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…

Sources:
– Berkhoff, Karel (ed.), Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (2018).
– Cobb, Matthew, The Resistance (2009).
– Desbois, Patrick, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008).
– Fox, Holquist and Martin, The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (2014).
– Kay, Alex and David Stahel, Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe (2018).
– Klee, Dressen and Reiss, The Good old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders (1991).
– Longerich, Peter, The Unwritten Order: Hitler’s Role in the Final Solution (2001)
– Longerich, Peter, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews (2010).
– Mitter, Rana, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 (2013).
– Müller, “The Brutalisation of Warfare, Nazi Crimes and the Wehrmacht”, In: Erickson & Dilks, Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies.
– Parrish, Michael, The Lesser Terror Soviet State Security, 1939-1953.
– Rutherford, Jeff, Combat And Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 (2014).
– Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010).
– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part A (2012).
– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II, Part B (2012)

Visual sources:
Yad Vashem 75EO4, 933/3/5, 94DO1, 75FO4, 75DO3, 3065/2, 4359/45, 2725/6, 86FO2, 3199/5, 7904/172, 3745/138, 90FO3, 4359/83, 4359/21, 4359/55, 4216/34, 86DO8, 3150/129, 4613/89, 142BO7, 3150/122
Bundesarchiv
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Picture of Lavrentiy Beria in court, courtesy of Фотограф – Ист.доки https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Picture of Gilbert Brustlein, courtesy of Fbrustlein https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Picture of Jewish officials of the Vilnius ghetto, courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, William Begell
Picture of Jewish and Lithuanian police guarding the entrence to the Vilnius ghetto, courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, William Begell
from the Noun Project: Skull by Muhamad Ulum, students by Piotrek Chuchla, person by Adrien Coquet, Injury by Adraino Emerick, Man by Milinda Courey, Woman by Maxim Kulikov, Child by RocketDiction

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”
Farell Wooten – “Blunt Object”
Peter Sandberg – “Document This 1”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe yet”
Jon Bjork – “For the Many”

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Modern Halloween costumes show us how wealthy we have become

Filed under: Cancon, Economics, History, Media, USA — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 03:00

Richard Lorenc looks back at the “costumes” for Halloween from the 1970s and 1980s to help illustrate how much our general economic picture has improved since those dark days:

While my husband and I were recently struggling to figure out our costumes for this Halloween (and we still don’t have any idea), he pulled up some old commercials on YouTube. The off-the-shelf options that trick or treaters had were, in a word, pitiful.

Basically, costume makers thought it was ok to make a front-only plastic mask (in any color, really) of a character and top it off with a plastic smock featuring an illustration of said character with either its name or the name of the show or movie it comes from. There was no attempt to dress in the character’s actual attire. If you wanted that, you’d either have to know a professional costumer or cobble together something from your closet.

Take a look for yourself at just how costume-poor we used to be:

Obviously, every costume is an opportunity to generate interest in a brand or franchise, and slapping on a logo is an easy way to get a name out there, but these costumes truly heralded a dark time for Halloween. Some may even argue that it demonstrated crass consumerism at its worst, with cynical companies taking the easiest route to grabbing a couple of bucks from desperate parents.

The truth of the tragedy of terrible old Halloween costumes has to do with a simple idea: specialization.

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The next time you compare our screen-accurate store-bought costumes of Darth Vader and Mr. Incredible to those of yesteryear, remember that we enjoy them today not because previous generations didn’t care for accurate costuming, but because growing trade across the globe has generated so much wealth for each of us that we can now demand things we may have only imagined previously.

I only realized as I got ready to schedule this post that it was an article I’d blogged a couple of years back, but the point of the story is still relevant even in our pandemic-wracked economy of 2020.

Halloween Special: Edgar Allan Poe

Filed under: Books, Humour — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 30 Oct 2015

Happy halloween! Today we’re looking into the mind of one of the most well-known horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe!

On today’s roster: “The Pit And The Pendulum”, “The Mask of Red Death”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

QotD: Swords

Filed under: Quotations, Weapons — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 01:00

A properly balanced sword is the most versatile weapon for close quarters ever devised. Pistols and guns are all offense, no defense; close on him fast and a man with a gun can’t shoot, he has to stop you before you reach him. Close on a man carrying a blade and you’ll be spitted like a roast pigeon — unless you have a blade and can use it better than he can.

A sword never jams, never has to be reloaded, is always ready. Its worst shortcoming is that it takes great skill and patient, loving practice to gain that skill; it can’t be taught to raw recruits in weeks, nor even months.

Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road, 1963.

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