November 2006
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
National Storytelling Network - History of Storytelling World
by jlesage
links list, many categories, many audio stories
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
by jlesage
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
Literary Theory. Literary Criticism
by jlesage
very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by jlesage
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
October 2006
Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1
by jlesage & 3 others
the kinds of things all screenwriters can steal from, over and over
July 2006
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
by jlesage
mixture of art and criticism in its focus
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