Secrets of the Planet of the Apes, with Josh Friedman
The Planet of the Apes franchise spans decades and formats: it started as a French novel in 1963, and then jumped the Atlantic to become a long-running series of movies,…
Godzilla As an ‘Undiscerning God’
Japan was at “zero,” and the arrival of Godzilla sets it back to “minus one,” hence the title.
All the Violet Tiaras – Jean Menzies
For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is a lot more complicated than…
Distributed Blackness
Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association Winner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given…
Class of ‘84: Rise of The Villains
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of landmarks in pop culture, especially sci-fi and fantasy. So many franchises were born in 1984. Some came to define the…
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Ghost World (2001) w/ Lucé Tomlin-Brenner
“I just hate all these extroverted, obnoxious, pseudo-bohemian losers."
The Great Women Artists Podcast: Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa
A writer, lecturer, author of almost 40 books, and former president of the Royal Society of Literature, Marina Warner, according to the New Yorker, is an authority on things that…
In Our Time – The Seventh Seal
In the 1000th edition of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the most celebrated film of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). It begins with an image…
You aren’t being indoctrinated, you’ve BEEN indoctrinated!
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