Cele mai bune Achmeds podcast-uri (2024)

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Reading of Achmed Abdullah's Fear with Joyana Richer for Halloween 2024 23:08

5d ago23:08

23:08

Joyana Richer joins Matt to read the short Voodoo tale, Fear by Achmed Abdullah for a spooky Halloween story. Episode captioned on YouTube SHOW OVERVIEW: Website: thescarymovieproject.com Get your horror movie fix with filmmaker and horror junkie Matt Lolich, as he reviews and deep dives into horror movies and other spooky topics! Now with spoileri…

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Creepshow with Marie Plays It All - We Love Fluffy! 51:08

17h ago51:08

51:08

Marie of Marie Plays It All is back to talk about one of her favorite films, Creepshow. One of the best horror anthology films with Stephen King, George Romero and Tom Savini. What else do you need?! Weeds by Stephen King - http://anintrotohorror.blogspot.com/2012/09/weeds-by-stephen-king.html The Crate by Stephen King - http://horrorstoriesvault.b…

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Footnote #52 - Rhetorics of Fantasy 16:28

3d ago16:28

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The Fantasy/Animation Footnotes continue with this latest examination of the many ‘rhetorics’ of fantasy that account for the mechanics by which fantasy writers can and do achieve their fantastical effects. Drawn from Farah Mendlesohn’s influential work on fantasy literature Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008), this Footnote has Alex reflect on the categor…

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The Scary Movie Project Meets Friday Night Movie: Exploring "Evil Dead" and Urban Legends 1:08:27

8d ago1:08:27

1:08:27

In this special crossover episode, Matt joins Friday Night Movie team up to delve into the world of horror and our chat centers on the classic The Evil Dead (1981) by Sam Raimi and its 2013 remake directed by Fede Alvarez. SHOW OVERVIEW: Website: thescarymovieproject.com Get your horror movie fix with filmmaker and horror junkie Matt Lolich, as he …

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Monsters, Inc. (2001) (with John Airlie) 1:09:47

12d ago1:09:47

1:09:47

The Fantasy/Animation podcast continues its involvement with the work of Pixar Animation Studios in this closer look at the computer-animated film Monsters, Inc. (2001) featuring Chris and Alex’s first guest of the new season John Airlie, Associate Lecturer in Film and Media at Birkbeck University in London. Not only has John has taught courses acr…

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Haunted East Coast Destinations With Denver Michaels 58:21

15d ago58:21

58:21

Looking for some spooky places to visit on the U.S. east coast? We've got you covered! Having been featured in Matt's documentary, Something in the Bay: The Tale of Chessie, Denver Michaels joins Matt to talk about some great places to go check out to give you the chills! Read more about the places talked about in this episode; https://trans-allegh…

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Footnote #51 - Cinema and the City 12:47

19d ago12:47

12:47

The Fantasy/Animation Footnotes return with this consideration of the many relationships that cinema can have with - and to - the city. Building on their recent episode on Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007), Chris and Alex reflect on those scholars who have placed cinema in dialogue with issues related to space, urban design, and sociology, and who ask …

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50 Years Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre With Director of Photography Daniel Pearl, ASC 1:07:44

22d ago1:07:44

1:07:44

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Matt is thrilled to interview Daniel Pearl, the original Director of Photography for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and its 2003 remake. Pearl reflects on his journey into cinematography, starting with his passion for filmmaking as that eventually caught the attention of director…

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Ratatouille (2007) 1:19:19

26d ago1:19:19

1:19:19

Chris and Alex return for a brand new season of the Fantasy/Animation podcast, beginning with this special episode on Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007), the eighth computer-animated film from Pixar Animation Studies and one of the studio’s cleverest in how it uses the metaphor of food and cookery to discuss ingenuity, artistry, and what it means to val…

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Laughing With Gingers 59:26

29d ago59:26

59:26

Let's do the time warp again! Sara and Kristina from Laughing With Gingers join Matt to talk about the classic horror/comedy/musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show almost 50 years later. ***SPOILERS*** The Time Warp and Shake Your Groove Thing from The Drew Carey Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRyAwr4Yb5A SHOW OVERVIEW: Website: thescarymovi…

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Dawn of the Dead 1:09:14

1M ago1:09:14

1:09:14

Friend of George Romero, Matt Blazi joins Matt to talk about one of the great zombie films to ever hit the silver screen. ***SPOILERS*** SHOW OVERVIEW: Website: thescarymovieproject.com Get your horror movie fix with filmmaker and horror junkie Matt Lolich, as he reviews and deep dives into horror movies and other spooky topics! Now with spoilerier…

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Immaculate 55:08

2M ago55:08

55:08

Divine intervention or a mad scientist playing god?! Matt welcomes back Tara Garwood to discuss the 2024 film Immaculate. ***SPOILERS*** SHOW OVERVIEW: Website: thescarymovieproject.com Get your horror movie fix with filmmaker and horror junkie Matt Lolich, as he reviews and deep dives into horror movies and other spooky topics! Now with spoilerier…

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Animated August 2024: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) 11:18

3M ago11:18

11:18

Animation is a highly flexible medium of filmmaking that allows for anything at all to exist in a movie. It also reveals a lot about the people who work on it through their brushstrokes, styles, techniques, and so on. Animation truly has limitless potential. In this series, Tony will explore some of the great animated classics that defined animatio…

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Animated August: Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) 8:33

3M ago8:33

8:33

Animation is a highly flexible medium of filmmaking that allows for anything at all to exist in a movie. It also reveals a lot about the people who work on it through their brushstrokes, styles, techniques, and so on. Animation truly has limitless potential. In this series, Tony will explore some of the great animated classics that defined animatio…

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Animated August 2024: Fantasia (1940) 14:49

3M ago14:49

14:49

Animation is a highly flexible medium of filmmaking that allows for anything at all to exist in a movie. It also reveals a lot about the people who work on it through their brushstrokes, styles, techniques, and so on. Animation truly has limitless potential. In this series, Tony will explore some of the great animated classics that defined animatio…

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Archive Episode - My Neighbor Totoro (1988) 55:32

3M ago55:32

55:32

Another trip through the Fantasy/Animation archive lands on this very early episode from February 2019 that focuses on Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988). Chris and Alex take the opportunity to reminisce about when fantasy and animation first met, and whether Alex has ‘clicked’ with the film since the original episode was rec…

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Archive Episode - Ex Machina (2014) (with Andrew Whitehurst) 1:19:50

3M ago1:19:50

1:19:50

Chris and Alex welcomed Oscar-winning visual effects artist Andrew Whitehurst to the Fantasy/Animation podcast back in November 2019 for this reflection on the posthumanism of science-fiction parable Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014). Andrew kindly spoke with us about his role as Visual Effects Supervisor on the film (for which he received an Academy…

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Archive Episode - The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) (with Caroline Ruddell - Live @ Cinema Museum) 49:54

4M ago49:54

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The latest archive instalment takes Chris and Alex back to January 2020, and their first live episode recorded in front of an audience of animated fantasy fans in attendance at the Fantasy/Animation screening series in collaboration with the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London. Joining the Q&A to discuss The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reini…

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Archive Episode - Treasure Planet (2002) (with Ron Clements and John Musker) 1:25:56

4M ago1:25:56

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For this third archive episode, Chris and Alex revisit a real bucket list moment by journeying back to July 2021 and the episode on Treasure Planet (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2002), which featured as its very special guests the film’s directors Ron Clements and John Musker. Faced with a host of technical issues (alongside barely-concealed disbeli…

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Archive Episode - Aladdin (1992) (with Steve Henderson) 1:18:42

4M ago1:18:42

1:18:42

Chris and Alex continue their journey back through the Fantasy/Animation podcast with this reminder of an early episode looking at the Disney animated musical Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1992), which featured as its special guest Steve Henderson - Editor of the Skwigly Online Animation Magazine and Director of the Manchester Animation Fest…

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Archive Episode - Peppa Pig (2004-) (with Richard Dyer) 1:10:34

4M ago1:10:34

1:10:34

Chris and Alex kick off the first in a series of episodes that give listeners a chance to revisit and review some earlier podcasts, or perhaps hear one or two instalments they might have missed first time around. For this inaugural delve back into the Fantasy/Animation archive, they look back at their conversation with Professor Richard Dyer (Emeri…

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The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 1:08:40

5M ago1:08:40

1:08:40

The Fantasy/Animation podcast is soon to break for the summer, but not before a few more episodes to round off the series - this time, it is the “Arabian fantasy” The Thief of Bagdad (Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger & Tim Whelan, 1940) that provides the focus for Episode 142, as Chris and Alex try to make sense of its story and style drawn from the “…

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Footnote #50 - Postfeminism (with Eve Benhamou) 12:32

5M ago12:32

12:32

The Fantasy/Animation Footnotes reach their half-century as Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Eve Benhamou, teaching fellow in Film Studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France to examine the contradictory cultural and political space of postfeminism. A much-debated topic, postfeminism typically pivots on gendered discourses…

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Frozen (2013) (with Eve Benhamou) 1:08:52

5M ago1:08:52

1:08:52

Episode 141 returns to the contemporary era of Disney Feature Animation with this discussion of the computer-animated musical blockbuster Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013), a fairytale film of female empowerment that is widely credited with ushering in Disney’s Third Golden Age of animated features after the ‘Classic’ Disney period and earli…

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Footnote #49 - Cyborgs 14:15

5M ago14:15

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Footnote 49 looks at the fascinating figure of the cyborg as an embodiment of hybridity, resistance, and rebellion, interrogating the role of cyborgs as surrogate figurations that representing disparate forms of identity within both popular media culture and social reality. Chris and Alex begin by discussing the cyborg as the provocative integratio…

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (with Yvonne Tasker) 1:05:45

6M ago1:05:45

1:05:45

Professor Yvonne Tasker is the very special guest for Episode 140 of the podcast, joining Chris and Alex for this discussion of action spectacle and the gendered body in science-fiction sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991). Across several foundational publications that have interrogated the intersections between genre and gender,…

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Street Trash 1:01:57

6M ago1:01:57

1:01:57

Matt and Bill Vaughan rant about the 1987 insanely offensive, disgusting cult classic film that is Street Trash. *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTubeDe către The Scary Movie Project

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Footnote #48 - Visual Effects 13:28

6M ago13:28

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Having already tackled the topic of special effects in an earlier Footnote, this latest episode instead focuses on visual effects (VFX) as a way to think through the practical/digital distinction that has come to culturally and industrially define the specificity and spectacle of VFX imagery. Topics include the rise of digital technologies and thei…

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Dungeons & Dragons - The Fantasy Adventure Board Game (with Cat Mahoney) 1:21:28

6M ago1:21:28

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Episode 139 marks something of a first as Chris and Alex play ‘The Fantasy Adventure Board Game’ Dungeons & Dragons originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974, taking on its array of characters, weapons, and quests live during the podcast with special guest (and Dungeon Master) Dr Cat Mahoney, Derby Fellow in Communicati…

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The Mothman Prophecies and Urban Legends with Unexplained Cases 57:46

6M ago57:46

57:46

Talking the 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies and touching on a few of the better known American urban legends with Rick from Unexplained Cases. *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTube Watch Unexplained Cases YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/unexplainedcases Matt's urban legend docs; The Bunny Man of Clifton - https://you…

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Footnote #47 - Aura 12:42

6M ago12:42

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Art’s relationship to the auratic is the focus of Footnote #47, which engages cinema’s historical relation to ‘aura’ via the foundational work of Walter Benjamin who argued for technology’s “withering” of art’s uniqueness of space and time thanks to the potential for the creation of a “plurality of copies” that shift art’s “unique existence.” Topic…

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Toy Story (1995) (with Lucy Fife Donaldson) 1:04:30

6M ago1:04:30

1:04:30

The Fantasy/Animation podcast finally tackles the seminal Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), with Episode 138 looking at Pixar’s computer-animated feature and the film that transformed animation in Hollywood - and beyond - into a digital medium. Joining Chris and Alex to examine Toy Story’s computerised production and the pleasures of its pristine vi…

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The Last Broadcast and found footage films 54:25

7M ago54:25

54:25

Was it Blair Witch or The Last Broadcast that was the first found footage film? Which others should you watch?? Matt and Marie Plays it All discuss *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTubeDe către The Scary Movie Project

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Footnote #46 - Multiplanarity 14:54

7M ago14:54

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Footnote #46 responds to a listener email by focusing on the speeds and spaces of the “multiplanar” image, a term theorised in Thomas Lamarre’s writing on anime and its techniques which looks at how motion is able to divide animated landscapes into different planes of action. In this episode, Chris treats Alex to a rundown of Lamarre’s work on mult…

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) (with Sarah Thomas) 1:10:44

7M ago1:10:44

1:10:44

Episode 137 appropriately begins at the end of the commercially and critically successful Indiana Jones franchise with this discussion of the fifth and final feature Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, 2023) featuring special guest Dr Sarah Thomas. Sarah is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media in the School of Arts, whose re…

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Criterion Horror Collection 1:00:04

7M ago1:00:04

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Looking at a few of horror films from the famous Criterion Collection with physical media fan KB Loves Movies. *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTubeDe către The Scary Movie Project

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Footnote #45 - The Disney Renaissance (with Peter Kunze) 17:31

7M ago17:31

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Chris and Alex once again draw on the expertise of Dr Peter Kunze (Tulane University) for this discussion of the form and function of the period critically and culturally known as the Disney Renaissance. Listen as they reflect on the complex and often contradictory place of the Renaissance as a crucial phase of renewal within Disney’s own internal …

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Beauty and the Beast (1991) (with Peter Kunze) 1:06:17

7M ago1:06:17

1:06:17

The author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press, 2023), Dr Peter Kunze (Tulane University), is the special guest for Episode 136 of the podcast which looks at the impact of Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991) and both the industrial and stylistic stakes of…

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Shaun of the Dead with Laughing with Gingers 50:53

7M ago50:53

50:53

Does everyone have a plan for when the zombie apocalypse arrives?!?! Are you heading to The Winchester?? The ladies from Laughing with Gingers join Matt to get into the great zombie satire that is Shaun of the Dead. *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTubeDe către The Scary Movie Project

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Footnote #44 - Hanna-Barbera (with Jared Bahir Browsh) 12:01

8M ago12:01

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A deep dive into the U.S. animation studio Hanna-Barbera provides the focus of Footnote #44, as Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Jared Bahir Browsh to discuss the origins of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s influential and prolific production company that strengthened the cartoon’s move from theatrical exhibition to television. Topics i…

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The Flintstones (1960-1966) (with Jared Bahir Browsh) 1:10:27

8M ago1:10:27

1:10:27

Chris and Alex are delighted to welcome Dr. Jared Bahir Browsh (Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Colorado Boulder) to the podcast to discuss William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s landmark animated sitcom The Flintstones (1960-1966), the first cartoon series to occupy a prime time slot on U.S. television. Listen as they discuss Jared’s resea…

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American Psycho with Horror Macaroni 59:32

8M ago59:32

59:32

Lunch with Cliff Huxtable, that whole "Yale thing", and Huey Lewis and the News. Matt and the queen of VHS horror herself, Horror Macaroni talk about the tremendous American Psycho. *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTubeDe către The Scary Movie Project

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Footnote #43 - Disney Princesses (with Robyn Muir) 14:03

8M ago14:03

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Fresh from their discussion of Wish (Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn, 2023), Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Robyn Muir, Lecturer in Media and Communication (University of Surrey), author of The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis (2023), and founder and director of the Disney, Culture and Society Research Network to discuss …

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Wish (2023) (with Robyn Muir) 1:08:17

8M ago1:08:17

1:08:17

To celebrate Disney’s computer-animated film musical Wish (Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn, 2023) and the company’s recent centenary year, Chris and Alex are joined by Dr Robyn Muir, Lecturer in Media and Communication in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Robyn’s research is interested in how identity is constructed and inter…

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The Thing Expanded with Robin Block 37:56

8M ago37:56

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Join Matt as he talks with the Founder of Creator VC Robin Block about his newest project, The Thing Expanded. A new and innovative documentary format exploring John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic. Click here for more about Creator VC Get involved! *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTube…

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Footnote #42 - Tolkien’s On Fairy Stories 15:27

9M ago15:27

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Following up last week’s feature-length episode on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003), the latest Footnote looks at J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal essay “On Fairy Stories” that engages the definitions, origins, and applications of the fairy story; the fairy vs. faerie distinction and questions of magic and imagination; su…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 1:17:08

9M ago1:17:08

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Chris and Alex conclude their journey through Middle-earth with this episode on the third and final entry into Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy - The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003) - where they reflect on the stylistic influence and cultural legacy of the franchise since its culmination over twenty years ago. Listen as they discu…

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New England horror film locations with J.W. Ocker 52:33

9M ago52:33

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Join Matt and Author J.W. Ocker as they take a look at locations throughout New England where some great scary flicks were shot. See more from J.W.'s book The New England Grimpendium *****SPOILERS***** SHOW NOTES Episode captioned on YouTubeDe către The Scary Movie Project

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Footnote #41 - Canons 12:41

9M ago12:41

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Footnote #41 looks at canon formation and value judgments in relation to the selection and privilege of art and culture’s masterworks, with Chris and Alex tackling the relationship between canons and consensus. Topics include canonisation as a political process of inclusion and exclusion; core-periphery models of how so-called untouchable art secur…

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Life, Animated (2016) (with Janet Harbord) 1:04:00

9M ago1:04:00

1:04:00

Special guest Janet Harbord, Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, joins Chris and Alex to discuss the intersections between fantasy, animation, and autism in this examination of documentary Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams, 2016), a film that reflects on the value and fantasies of animated media at the same time as it navigates and represent…

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