Lewis Carroll / Alice in the popular culture
These are links to pages that are related to Carroll (mostly Alice) in the
popular culture. Alice has been used to promote sales of most anything and
to prove a wide variety of beliefs. Alice references have become a part of
our everyday experinces. What's a good example of this. This political pin sort
of says it all. I don't know if Lewis Carroll would be
amused, amazed, or abashed. Regardless, this use of Alice keeps his work in
the public arena generation after generation. Also included here is Alice in
the performing arts.
I would have made this page more disorganized, if only I could. Links on this
page disappear quite regularly. If you find a dead link please notify me. I
am in the midst of testing these links, but time is finite (at least mine is).
Alice in various media
- Alice on film/video tape
- Alice music
- Some photos from an Alice ballet performed by the North Star Ballet in Fairbanks, Alaska.
- If you missed the SUSU Blow Up Theatre Group production, here are some photos.
- A Reading Room Index of MSU Libraries Comic Art Collection including Alices.
- The Storytellers Theatre production of Alice
- Hidden Mickey in Wonderland.
- A Kathryn Beaumont page the voice of the Disney Alice.
- Sound clips from the Disney Alice
- The NBC special.
- Scifi channell Seeing Ear Theater Alice
- At the Drop of a Mad Hat
- Dennis Potter's TV Alice play on the Dennis Potter website.
- Sand sculptures in Santa Barbara
- Queen of Hearts in sand
- Humpty Dumpty sees his future
- King & Queen of Hearts hold court in sand
- The Alice sculptures by David Kellum.
- An artsy web Jabberwocky not for reading.
- Theater adaptation by Jocelyn Clarke in Dublin.
- Bil Bairds Alice puppets Go see it. Now!
- Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Family Opera
- A word on Nolan Haims' Alice
- Japanese theater production
- Moving Walrus and carpenter poem
- Reminiscent of Abbey Road
- Talking Book
- 2 haikus
- Wonder Cabinet
- Magnificent sand sculptures
- Alice meets CATS
- Disney's Adventures in Wonderland the TV series
- It's the Snark by Mike Batt
- A photo project
- Hunting Alice
- Dancing Alice filmscript for a musical
Movies of a Carrollian Nature
I have started with some easy ones. Please mail in additions to this list.
- The Matrix | more on the Matrix | Wonderland/Matrix adventure | analysis
- Being John Malkovich
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- In one of the opening scenes of Dogma, a recent Kevin Smith movie, Loki interprets the Walrus and the Carpenter as religious figures who attract followers (the oysters) and then eat them. With this interpretation he dissuades a nun from her life's calling, convincing her of his feigned atheism: those religious figures are just leading us to doom, and are not in support of or embody an diety at all...even though Loki is an angel, technically, and has, as Bartelby points out, been in the presence and even sopken with God himself. He makes connections with Buddha, Jesus, and other historical religious figures...
- Mrs. Miniver 1942
Influenced by Lewis Carroll
- The Beatles knew. Humpty Dumpty was the Eggman.
- John Lennon
- Stevie Nicks
- Borges
Parodies, Spinoffs, etc.
- A parody of the W and C by Banjo Patterson 1904
- Javert in Wonderland
- A frumpled version of Thru the Looking-Glass play script by William J. Springer
- A sailing parody of the Mad Gardener's Song
- Jabberwocky mania - should Jabberwocky come with a warning label? This could happen to your child!
- Jabberwocky parodies. Grab your vorpal sword in hand before entering (there are monsters to be slain).
- Why Jabberwocky? I'm glad you asked. Here are 10 useless facts to help answer that question.
- The Carroll sci-fi connection. A list of sci-fi stories with Carroll references.
- Well it's not on the web (I don't think), but have you seen The MAXX #28? A character goes into a Wonderland trance to bring her back to her childhood and free up her inhibitions so she can solve her psychological problems. At least I think that's the crux. As a taste - the Tweedles are twin sisters (topsy-turvy) who are opposite ends of the binge and purge spectrum of yo-yo dieting.
- A travelogue to mythical Carroll lands.
- Synopsis of a Mad Hatter screenplay.
- The Red Queen as you've never seen her. I hope this confuses you as much as it did me.
- A Snark parody. I had to include this - my sister has a Border Collie.
- A teaser chapter of a Dodgson / Alice tale.
- A page of Japanese spinoffs
- Actuaries in Wonderland for future actuaries only
- Al Gore in Wonderland
- Lemmawocky Jabberwocky as mathematical proof QED
- Adventures in net shopping
- Wild Side of the Window - for Tweedle fans
- Disney Alice Comedies 1924-1927
- Episode of Providence TV show
- Alice in Flatland
- Snarking of the Hunt by George Kenealy
- Teaching English Through the Looking Glass
- Through the Looking Glass: The Story of Alice's Quest for Emissivity the title says it all.
- Alice in Health-Care Land
- Akiko on the Planet Smoo
- Alice in Blunderland The moral is child safety
- Down the Rabbit Hole Stories of Alice in wwwland
- Daria in Wonderland or the Hunting of the Snipe
Cyber Games
- AE computer game based on the darker side of Alice and Articles and reviews and a review from the female perspective and and another review and a great related site
- Alice maze game
- Alice maze
- Video Arcde gamefrom 1988
Diseases
- The Red Queen Syndrome
- Mad Hatter's disease.
- White Rabbit theory. This is not exactly a disease, but it seemed to go here.
- The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is distortion of image in size, shape, or color. This is sometimes associated with migraine headaches.
- Carroll's migraine headaches
- Mercury poisoning
- Mercury poisoning
Drug References
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Let me be perfectly clear here Lewis Carroll didn't do recreational drugs.
Certainly there were drug references in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
these were picked up on by people with interests in that area, particularly in the late sixties.
That is not to say that Carroll never took Laudunum for a medical problem on the
advice of a doctor. There is NO direct proof (in his letters or his diaries) that
he ever took narcotic drugs. You might ask yourself why students insist that
he did and why some teachers teach that he did.
- Alice gets linked to the drug culture. No, Lewis Carroll did not use mind altering drugs to increase his creativity. He used his imagination. If you have one, it's better than drugs. If you don't, the drugs won't help you. With apologies to the late Timothy Leary.
- This can't be true
- A couple of acid blotters
- Chemical Alice the band
- Using Alice to JUST SAY NO
Memorabilia and Collectibles
- A Disney Alice collection
- A story about an Alice "find"
- Tony Sarg's marvelous Mad Hatter puppet.
- Pages of Alice dolls
- The Purciful Family collection. Check out the things page for the Screaming Trees Uncle Anesthesia CD cover. This is Alice in the pop culture. Whereas all of their pages have room for growth, the links page looks complete to me.
- Custom made doll of Alice and Humpty Dumpty
- Chess set by Australian sculptor, Graeme Anthony 1983. I've seen this one in person. It is unique and it weighs a ton.
- A virtual exhibit at the University of British Columbia
- An Alice Collectors message board
- Stamps with a Carroll theme
- One of a kind doll by Gillie Charlson
- Vintage postcards
- 4 Guinness postcards
- Guinness postcard
- Guinness postcards
- Illustrated Alice books
- Alice bears by Deb Canham
- Kaulbach Island First Day Cover
- Masks from the NW Children's Theatre production
- Alice puppets
- Cheshire Cat puppet
- A couple of acid blotters
- Collectibles
- Book plate designed for the Cleveland Public Library by Paul Kucharyson
- Alice collection down under
- Disney Ceramic pieces by Gomes
- Edna Dali Alice dolls One of a kind
- Disney rampwalker
- Gerald King stamps
Web Pages with a Carroll Motif
- Alice Chen's page.
- It's not much, but how can you omit someone whose e-mail address is dormouse@madhatter.com.
- Links to Mad Hatters.If you take www.madhatter.com can you leave off www.madhatters.com?
- A Snark hunter from Brooklyn where some of the best ones come from. He is a beamish boy, you'll agree.
- Through the Looking Glass web design team
- Calligraphy in Sweden.
- Okay, so it's just a Cheshire Cat.
- yteicoS dnalrednoW ehT
- An Alice page in Germany. I particularly like the Eeyore button at the bottom (well, he's my favorite Pooh character - if I had a favorite Pooh character. Which I doubt.)
- The Drink Me page .
- Bronwen's Homepage with links.
- Welcome to her whorl. Everytime she ate something her hairstyle changed. Quite sassy.
- Dizney and other
- These folks are in the Alice spirit
- Looking-Glass Microproducts
- Carroll as Alice?
- A pop fan site
- Drink Me
- Bali Through the Looking-Glass
- A fan's page
- The writing center at Northwestern Michigan College
- A not quite Alice writing site
- Wonderland.com who would have guessed?
- Fancy Dress companyin Liverpool
- Mock Turtle Press
- Shaky motif
- Cheshire Kat
- Size Matters
- Welcome to the other side
- IT Through the Looking-Glass
Mad Tea Parties
- Have the Mad Hatter at your tea party.
- A plan for a tea party
- Lisa Dean's production
- Nite Run
Miscellaneous
- Mad Hatter Day. I wish I had thought of this.
- C.J. shares his dream.
- Here is page of 42's for Edward Wakeling. It was a Carrollian number long before Douglas Adams began hitchhiking. Okay, so that was petty.
- I asked Krister Joas for an English translation of his Miyukichan in Wonderland review. Here is another review and graphics.
- Alice Au Pays Recursif I'd tell you more but my French is tres minimal. Apparently this is a recursive Alice tale.
- Check out the Rippingtons' Cheshire Cat logo
I don't know anything about their jazz music, but they must be cool cats (of the Cheshire persuasion).
- A nice page of quotes.
- An Inform tutorial using Looking-Glass as an example. How to write games in the Inform computer language.
- A Mad game of Mad Libs
- A synopsis of Alice in Italian
- The Wonderland tarot deck
- Send an Alice postcard to a friend.
- Tenniel e-greeting cards
- Here is one from the X Files. For those who don't know, OCR is Optical Character Recognition.
- A philosophy student finds the web
- The ultimate fantasy baseball game as the Oz team beats the Alice team.
- Here is a good hobby Trace back your lineage until you find a common link with Lewis Carroll.
- Eric is clearly a legophile Eric has way too much time on his hands. He has now added a LEGO White Rabbit.
- This is astronomical
- Fly in the Cheshire Cat balloon in Iowa this August.
- Get ready for Halloween
- Alice's Diary Ever wonder what it would be like to be Alice
- Send Alice e-postcards
- Cartoon
- Lewis Carroll on emoticons
- Ambigram of the first stanza of Jabberwocky a likely candidate for an ambiagram
- Bas relief on a Cunard liner
- Carroll code in Red Shift
- There was Something about that Rabbit a sermon
- Crazy Libs like mad libs
- Rate the Alice characters
- Alice on Wall Street
- Alice guitar don't fret
- Another Alice guitar
- You must have this Carroll font
- An invitation
- Costume design
- Quotes from recent physics tests
- Down the Rabbit Hole Artists and Writers in Wonderland