Braudel's The Mediterranean was made over twenty years, and Braudel's excess is statistical, but he also innovates narratives, his maps are loaded with motion data, sometimes forcing the audience to shift orientation to realize scope and origin. Below, the reader rotates to see.

and distant-looking orbiting and non-orbiting structures

6th Century BC Corinth Comedy. Comedies like these were imported to Athens from other cities. Characters were theives, slaves, drunken old women, plots involved stealing wine, manners, errors. Costumes made some appear gleefully grotesque.

Bioshock's Rapture locale, soon Columbia.

Flaherty cubed. Written by the writer of The Omen and directed by the writer of The Wild Bunch, Hellstrom stars a fictional doctor and exhibits the post-human rulers of planet earth. Winner of the academy award for best documentary.

a history.

From Joe Queenan's Is 2010 the Worst Movie Year Ever?

"In a millennium that has thus far produced precious few motion pictures in the same class as "The Godfather," "Jurassic Park," "Casablanca," "Gone with the Wind," "My Fair Lady" and "The Matrix," there is a knee-jerk tendency to throw up one's hands and moan that the current year is the worst in the history of motion pictures. But 2010 very possibly is the worst year in the history of motion pictures. Where once there was "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," there is now "Robin Hood," prince of duds. Where once we could look forward to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Last of the Mohicans," we can now look forward to "Dinner for Schmucks" and "The Last Airbender." This time two years ago we were treated to the ingenious, subversive "Iron Man"; this year we have the insipid, uninspired "Iron Man 2." What does it say about the current season that the third installation of "Toy Story" is better than the first installation of anything else? Or that people are actually looking forward to a sequel to the 1982 flop "Tron"? Does this mean that a sequel to "The Rocketeer" will soon be on the way? Quick, Leonardo: Penetrate somebody's subconscious. Fast.