Side Quest - Golden Ages

And now for something completely different...well, kinda different. This week your intrepid hosts Will and Alisha take diverging paths to explore the topic of (du-du-du-daah!) Golden Ages! So join us as we discuss the hidden wonders of the Islamic Golden Age, before delving into the dark secrets of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood on our very first side quest!

 

Sources: The Islamic Golden Age

Articles:

The Golden Age of Islam (Khan Academy)

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/medieval-times/cross-cultural-diffusion-of-knowledge/a/the-golden-age-of-islam

The Islamic Golden Age (Lumen Learning)

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/the-islamic-golden-age/

Abbasid Dynasty Timeline (World History)

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Abbasid_Dynasty/

Ophthalmology’s Roots in the Islamic Golden Age (Sam McCommon, Cake Magazine, Sep 2020)

https://cakemagazine.org/ophthalmologys-roots-in-the-islamic-golden-age/

The Golden Age of Medicine: A walk through history in the Muslim world (Leyal Khalife, Steep Feed, Mar 2020)

https://stepfeed.com/the-golden-age-of-medicine-a-walk-through-history-in-the-muslim-world-9493

These 7 Islamic Golden Age Inventions Changed The World (Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, Jun 2019)

https://interestingengineering.com/these-7-islamic-golden-age-inventions-changed-the-world

How Early Islamic Science Advanced Medicine (Victor Palleja De Bustinza, National Geographic, Nov 2016)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/muslim-medicine-scientific-discovery-islam

Iraq’s Golden Age: The Rise and Fall of the House of Wisdom (Isabella Bengoechea, Culture Trip, Sep 2016)

https://theculturetrip.com/middle-east/iraq/articles/iraq-s-golden-age-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-house-of-wisdom/

Videos:

Why Was the Islamic Golden Age of Science… Golden? (SciShow, Oct 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3U9nILozc  

The Medieval Islamicate World: Crash Course History of Science #7 (Crash Course, May 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVsus8Ehxs

Science in a Golden Age - Pioneers of Engineering: Al-Jazari and the Banu Musa (Al Jazeera English, Oct 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzPxwnGs34&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglishAlJazeeraEnglish

Islam and Politics: Crash Course World History 216 (Crash Course, Nov 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka8csjsmX6I&ab_channel=CrashCourseCrashCourseVerified

Audio:

Islamic Golden Age 1: The Birth of an Empire (Excavate, Dec 2020)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7veKlZ3p7jgcWIcSCdidIE?si=DJaPJZ_6TXuC7hRe_G5ZrA

 

Sources: The Golden Age of Hollywood

Articles:

The Top 100 Silent Era Films (Silent Era)

https://www.silentera.com/info/top100.html 

The Hollywood Studio System (Encyclopedia Britannica)

https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture/The-Hollywood-studio-system 

Hollywood (History.com Editors, August 2018)

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/hollywood#section_5 

The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Golden Age (Audrey W., Arcadia Publishing)

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Navigation/Community/Arcadia-and-THP-Blog/June-2019/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Hollywood%E2%80%99s-Golden-Age 

Judy Garland Was Put on a Strict Diet and Encouraged to Take "Pep Pills" While Filming 'The Wizard of Oz' (Colin Bertram, December 2020)

https://www.biography.com/news/judy-garland-pills-diet-wizard-of-oz 

When Hollywood Studios Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexuality a Secret (Thad Morgan, July 2019)

https://www.history.com/news/hollywood-lmarriages-gay-stars-lgbt

Studio System (Hollywood Lexicon)

http://www.hollywoodlexicon.com/studiosystem.html 

Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism (Pamela Hutchinson, October 2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/19/moguls-and-starlets-100-years-of-hollywoods-corrosive-systemic-sexism 

The Color of Love (Sam Kashner, September 2013)

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/1999/03/sammy-davis-kim-novak-dating

10 Abuses of Studio Power From the Golden Age of Hollywood (Sarah Nour, February 2018)

https://reelrundown.com/film-industry/10-Human-Rights-Abuses-from-the-Golden-Age-of-Hollywood 

The day the Supreme Court killed Hollywood’s studio system (Scott Bomboy, May 2021)

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-day-the-supreme-court-killed-hollywoods-studio-system 

A Brief History of Cinema (Russell Leigh Sharman, University of Arkansas)

https://uark.pressbooks.pub/movingpictures/chapter/a-brief-history-of-cinema/ 

Art and Artifice (Amy Monaghan, Fall 2018)

https://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/art-and-artifice#