Multimedia Resources for 1984+20

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Songs
David Bowie, "This is Not America"
Davis Bowie, "1984"
Eurythmics, "1984: For the Love of Big Brother" album, featuring "doubleplusgood" and "For the Love of Big Brother"

Books
"Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian Age," edited by William Lutz (NCTE, 1989)

• Notes toward a Defnition of Doublespeak, William Lutz (Chapter 1)
• What Do We Know?, Charles Weingartner (Chapter 4)
• Political Language: The Art of Saying Nothing, Dan F. Hahn (Chapter 11)
• Fiddle-Faddle, Flapdoodle, and Balderdash: Some Thoughts about Jargon, Frank J. D'Angelo (Chapter 12)
• How to Read an Ad: Learning to Read between the Lies, D.G. Kehl (Chapter 13)
• The Pop Grammarians--Good Intentions, Silly Ideas, and Doublespeak, Charles Suhor (Chapter 18)

Artwork & Pictures
1984 movie poster, "Big Brother Is Watching You"
Orwell picture gallery
1984 movie poster (1956) and movie review from The Times (March 1, 1956)   
1984 comic book project 
Bill of Rights Defense Committee button

Films
1984: The Movie (1985)
1984: The Movie (1956)
"Orwell Rolls in His Grave"
"A marvel of passionate succinctness, Robert Kane Pappas' docu critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Docu asks, "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?"
-Ronnie Scheib, Variety, November 2003
Brazil is loosely based on the book 1984 (recommended by Jen Breen)

Orwell & 1984
1984 manuscript
Orwell's essay on why he wrote 1984
Read 1984 online
Note handwritten by Orwell

Doublespeak
American Newspeak--This weekly electronic magazine takes a satirical look at the Orwellian side of 1990's through articles from today's newspapers which demonstrate the art of doublespeak.