Tina Tang的部落格

The Shawshank Redemption

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hB3S9bIaco

Renaissance

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

English Renaissance theatre

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre

Under Elizabeth, the drama was a unified expression as far as social class was concerned: the Court watched the same plays the commoners saw in the public playhouses. With the development of the private theatres, drama became more oriented towards the tastes and values of an upper-class audience.

Anecdote of the Jar

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdote_of_the_Jar

"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens’ first book of poetry, Harmonium.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_on_a_Grecian_Urn

poetry foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173742

Sunday Morning (poem)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Morning_(poem)

poetry foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/251528#poem

"Sunday Morning" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium.

Southern belle

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_belle

The Southern belle is a stock character representing a young woman of the American Deep South's upper socioeconomic class.

Plantation

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation

A plantation is a large piece of land (or water) usually in a tropical or semitropical area where one crop is specifically planted for widespread commercial sale and usually tended by resident laborers.

Tennessee Williams

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(play)

A Streetcar Named Desire (film)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8

Catch Me If You Can

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71rDQ7z4eFg

Marcel Proust

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

Pai Hsien-yung 白先勇

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai_Hsien-yung

New Orleans

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans

The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and strongly influenced by their European culture. It is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage.

Cajun cuisine

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_cuisine

This style of cooking is named for the French-speaking Acadian people deported by the British from Acadia in Canada to the Acadian region of Louisiana. It is what could be called a rustic cuisine; locally available ingredients predominate and preparation is simple. An authentic Cajun meal is usually a three-pot affair, with one pot dedicated to the main dish, one dedicated to steamed rice, special made sausages, or some seafood dish, and the third containing whatever vegetable is plentiful or available. Shrimp and pork sausage are staple meats used in a variety of dishes.

Mardi Gras

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras

Mardi Gras, also called Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three King's Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.

Nikita (film)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=167URLa-On0

Point of No Return

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107843/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWM25F_SOY

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7m_n2aM51Q

The Skeleton Key

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654uzrc6Lsk

Louisiana Voodoo

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Voodoo

Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo, describes a set of spiritual folkways that developed from the traditions of the African diaspora. It is a cultural form of the Afro-American religions developed by enslaved West Africans and the French, Spanish, and Creole populations of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Voodoo is one of many incarnations of African-based spiritual folkways rooted in West African Dahomeyan Vodun. Its liturgical language is Louisiana Creole French, the language of the Louisiana Creole people.

The Pelican Brief

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107798/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7seUNbY1_w

All the King's Men

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405676/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruq0GPvloVc

Gothic fiction

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction

• Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the genre of Gothic horror and gothic fiction, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction, horror, death and romance.
• It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19th, as witnessed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Southern Gothic

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gothic

• Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South.
• Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may or may not dabble in hoodoo, ambivalent gender roles, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty, alienation, crime, or violence.