GENERAL:

IMAGES & SOUNDS:

Matrix Picture Gallery

Matrix Sound Archive (part of Welcome to the Matrix site)

Official Soundtrack Page

SYMBOLISM-GENERAL:

What Does It All Mean: Symbolism in The Matrix

Down the Rabbit Hole

Cracking The Matrix by Steven D. Woofter

Symbolic Use of Color in The Matrix

SYMBOLISM-RELIGIOUS:

The Matrix is a Parable

The Matrix is a Parable (alternate site)

Through the Looking Glass: Mirror and Religious Symbolism in The Matrix

The Matrix as Messiah Movie

Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix by James S. Ford

Gnosticism Reborn: The Matrix as Shamanic Journey

The New Gnostic Gospel by Steve Kellmeyer

The Matrix and Nondual Spirituality

Understanding the Matrix

Is the movie "The Matrix" about the Christianity Meme? by Don Baker

PHILOSOPHY & THE MATRIX:

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

The Metaphysics of The Matrix

The Matrix and Berkeley's Metaphysics

The Matrix:Keanu Lost in Plato's Cave by McKenzie Wark

Allegory of the Cave/The Matrix

The Matrix and The Question of God: Rene Decartes' Mind vs. Body Dichotomy by Jeffrey Stauffer

OTHER INTERPRETATIONS:

The Matrix: The Two Sides of Perversion by Slavoj Zizek

Spectacle and Inter-Spectacle in The Matrix and Organizational Theory by David M. Boje

Escaping the Matrix by Richard K. Moore

Myth Meets Internet in 'Matrix'

The Matrix and Quantum Consciousness

Moving into the Matrix: an examination of postmodernism, Cyberpunk, and technology's role in future societies by Tom Cronin

The Matrix Metaphor

BAUDRILLARD & SIMULATION IN THE MATRIX:

Treachery and Rebellion: Simulation and the Loss of the Real

Baudrillard and Hollywood:Subverting the Mechanism of Control and The Matrix by Jim Rovira

Evil Demons, Saviors, and Simulacra in The Matrix by Doug Mann & Heidi Hochenedel

The Matrix and Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulations"

INFLUENCES ON THE MATRIX:

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT

NAVIGATING THE INFORMATION MATRIX:

THE MATRIX

(1999)

WORLD WIDE WEB LINKS RELATED TO

THE WARNER BROTHERS FILM

INTRODUCTION:

This web page provides selected links to online material on the film The Matrix. Suggestions for other related useful sites are welcome.

LINK TOPICS:

IMAGES & SOUNDS:

Matrix Sound Archive (part of Welcome to the Matrix site)

SYMBOLISM-GENERAL:

SYMBOLISM-RELIGIOUS:

PHILOSOPHY & THE MATRIX:

OTHER INTERPRETATIONS:

BAUDRILLARD & SIMULATION IN THE MATRIX:

INFLUENCES ON THE MATRIX:

Cyberpunk & William Gibson

Baudrillard & Simulation

Descartes

Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

Alice in Wonderland

Wizard of Oz

Postmodernism