Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, is widely hailed as one of the defining literary classics ...

Thomas Edison used the hypnogogia state between wakefulness and sleep to generate ideas, napping multiple times a day and recording hallucinations to invent devices like the light bulb and phonograph.

Paul Grimstad, a lecturer and the director of undergraduate studies in the humanities program, recently appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson’s thriller film “One Battle After Another,” which stars ...

Hyderabad film journey began around 125 years ago, paralleling Bombay and Madras, while producing stars and pioneers ...

Did you know that one of Fort Myers most famous residents is indirectly responsible for Hollywood becoming a movie mecca? Thomas Edison spent winters in Fort Myers from 1885 until his death in 1931, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Thomas Hager discussed Henry Ford’s early years, including his upbringing on a Michigan farm, his first job at Thomas Edison’s electric ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. In the course of his three-decade career, the director Paul Thomas Anderson has dramatized the ...

What kind of movies do exceptional filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson watch? While you might expect that he enjoys films similar to his own (and perhaps he does), the director behind There Will Be ...

How many masterpieces is one director allowed to have? Paul Thomas Anderson, with the arrival of “One Battle After Another,” now officially has at least four and this one just might be his best of ...

It took a lot of people to create the light bulb. But a process of mythmaking has flattened one man and elevated him to legendary status. The following is an excerpt from The Genius Myth: A Curious ...