Audios
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NPR interviews Nigerian author Chinua Achebe on Heart of Darkness, which he considers "inappropriate" because of its depiction of Africans.
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Gather the family around the radio and listen to Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre perform Conrad's story. Awesome!
Documents
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The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot, a poem inspired by Heart of Darkness.
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The Conradian talks about Conrad and his roots in Eastern Europe.
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T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" uses an epigraph from Heart of Darkness. Can you figure out why?
Websites
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For only £500, you, too, can be a member of the Joseph Conrad Society. Spend all your allowance? The site still has some good information, including a "Student Resources" section.
Movie and TV Adaptations
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Just another reason the '50s were so cool: Playhouse 90 presented 1.5-hour dramas, like this "Heart of Darkness" (episode #7).
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Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, updates Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War. It's also pretty much the best adaptation in the history of adaptations.
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Heart of Darkness (1993) with John Malkovich as Kurtz. Unfortunately, it's not as good as you'd hope.
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This 1999 documentary, Search for Kurtz, is the story of Tony Po, the alleged inspiration for Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Confused?
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King Kong, directed by Peter Jackson, has many references to Heart of Darkness. We're also worried it's a little bit racist.
Videos
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Screenwriter John Milius says smart things about Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness.
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It doesn't get any more classic than this, Shmoopers.
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Trailer from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. So rad.
Audio
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John Powell's "Rhapsodie Negre" was inspired by Heart of Darkness. You can also learn more about John Powell here. (What that bio doesn't say, however, is that he was a flat-out racist jerk.)
Images
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This is a map of the Congo from the early 1900s, just after Heart of Darkness. See all the different colors?
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An Oxford World Classics book cover. Anyone want to try a close reading of the cover?
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A photo of Joseph Conrad sporting some seriously hip facial hair.