Sites for Thomas Pynchon and/or Gravity's Rainbow
The HyperArts Pynchon Pages:
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/
Includes word indexes to V., Gravity's Rainbow, and Mason &
Dixon, as well as links to other useful sites.
Pynchon-L:
http://waste.org/pynchon-l/
The online discussion group for Pynchon and related matters. Information on joing
the list or reading the archives, as well as links to other sites.
Pynchon Notes:
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html
The acclaimed scholarly journal dealing with the works of Pynchon and related matters.
San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Web Page:
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu
Not apparently updated recently, but still full of interesting links and
byways dealing with Pynchon's novels and other Pynchonia.
Spermatikos Logos:
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/
Maintained by Dr. Larry Daw and the Great Quail, as part of The Modern Word website, with
pages about Pynchon and other perplexing writers.
Paper Pynchon:
http://wso.williams.edu/~dgambrel/pics/pynchon/index.html
Of little relevance to this website, but mildly entertaining
digression.
The 100 Greatest Films
http://www.filmsite.org/index.html
As arbitrary as any such list, but has good poster images and links
Bright Lights Film Journal: The Gay Divorcee
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/28/gaydivorcee1.html
Online journal article about the Astaire-Rogers musical.
Casabalanca3
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/fulbourne/228/casablanca3.html
French website dedicated to the film and the Morrocan city.
Classic Films
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/welcome.htm
Articles and images about a wide range of classic American films, including film noir
and "B" pictures.
The Conrad Veidt Home Page
http://members.aol.com/CVSociety/home.html
Fansite dedicated the somnabulist of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the Nazi
villain of Casablanca.
Fritz Lang's and Thea von Harbou's Nibelungen
http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/nibel.html
Synopsis and background to Lang's film, with wonderful illustrations from original
postcard series. May take longer to load, but worth it! Includes links to other sites.
Grand Illusions
http://www.grand-illusions.com
Explanations, games, experiments with optical illusions and other questions of visual
perception.
The Humanist Art Homepage
http://www.serve.com/Lucius
A defense of traditional humanistic values and the movies as the medium that currently
best serves them. Links to the owner's ("Lucius Furius") book, Genius
Ignored.
The Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com
Premiere website for information about specific films and film personnel. It has gaps,
especially for older, foreign and independent films, but is still a good starting place.
Linked to Amazon.com.
Louise Brooks: Stuff
http://www.cps.net.au
Australian fansite devoted to Louise Brooks, American star of G.W. Pabst's Pandora's
Box and Diary of a Lost Girl.
The Maltese Falcon FAQ
http://www.grand-illusions.com/index.htm
Information and images about the book and the film.
Marlene Dietrich
http://www.marlene.com
Official website devoted to the movie star. Includes excellent overview of The
Blue Angel with pictures.
Metropolis Reconstruction
http://www.geocities.com/metropolis_reconstruction
Dedicated to reconstructing the original script and images of Lang's classic SF film.
Great image gallery!
Salon for Helmut Berger
http://wald.heim.at/schwarzwald/520011
Fansite devoted the German star of Visconti's Ludwig and The Damned.
ShillPages 2000
http://shill.simplenet.com
Devoted to several topics, including a full-scale fansite for Fay Wray. Includes
frame-by-frame images from several scenes in King Kong.
Stanley Kubrick in Science Fiction
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dsykes/main.html
Discussion of Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove, and A Clockwork Orange (but not,
strangely, 2001: A Space Odyssey).
COMIC STRIP AND COMIC BOOK SITES
Aaron Severson's Comics: History/Commentary/Ephemera
http://www.intelcities.com/Hobby_Lane/argent/home.html
What the name suggests: Good source for discussion and links for DC comics.
Blackhawk Comics Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/1693/blk_main.html
Devoted to the leather-clad "multi-lingual" gang that fought the Axis and the
Commies (and that Pynchon may have cited by accident). Includes cover gallery.
Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Virtual Museum &
Encyclopedia
http://www.comic-art.com
Reference site for comic strip and comic books. Extensive images and links.
Comic Book Cover Gallery
http://www.crosswinds.net/~testiculos
Wonderful site for scans of covers of classic comic books, including rare and hard-to-find
items and relatively obscure publications from the comic book "Golden Age."
Comic Superhero Database
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/4432/Heroes/HEROES.html
Now dedicated only to DC superheroes, including Plastic Man. Includes cover scan
galleries.
Crimeboss: Crime Comic Books of the 1940s & 1950s
http://www.crimeboss.com
Includes gallery of lurid covers!
The Rough House
http://theneitherworld.com/popeye
A site devoted to the different manifestations of Popeye, but with emphasis on the
original comic strip.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
Comprehensive site devoted to Arthurian legend.
The George Formby Society
http://www.georgeformby.co.uk
More than you could ever want to know about the ukelele-strumming entertainer, with links
to even more!
The Federal Writers Project by Petra Schindler-Carter
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pscarter/fwp.html
Abstract of Vintage Snapshots: The Fabrication of a Nation in the WPA American Guide
Series. Not much on The Berkshire Hills itself, but a good commentary on the
New Deal project that produced it and other guides. Includes information on buying the
book itself.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm
Very nice site, recreating 12 of the tales of the Brothers Grimm, in all their original
grimness. From the National Geographic Society, of all places!
Hampton One-Design
http://www.shorenet.net/hamptonone
Information on the sailboat, its history, races, etc.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria: His Life and Art
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4080/home.htm
All about the "mad king," who sponsored Wagner's operas and built extravagent
castles. Includes pictures and information about the castles.
Kyudo.Com
http://www.kyudo.com
Devoted to the art of Zen archery.
Roger Wilmut's Homepage
http://home.clara.net/rfwilmut
Information about the British musical hall, its music, and several of its performers.
(Roger Wilmut, by the way, is the cousin of the Wilmut who cloned Dolly, the sheep.)
Rozsavolgyi
http://business.matav.hu/uzlet/rozsavol/english/fomenu.htm
Home page for the Hungarian music store.