Guests: Traci Drummond of Georgia State University, Andrew Reisinger of Georgia State University, and Steve Wise of The Great Speckled Bird.
First broadcast June 29 2018.
“It’s a really horrible way to do a really great thing.”
This deconstruction of the superhero genre was mired in legal debacles and intellectual property battles for decades before we could get a chance to read it. We look at that convoluted history, in light of Alan Moore’s attempt to reimagine and criticize the themes of superhero comics.
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LITS 388: “The Southeast Data Librarian Symposium”
Guests: Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh of Georgia State University; Jennifer Doty of Emory University; Ximin Mi of Georgia Tech.
First broadcast JUNE 22, 2018.
“I hope there’s a lot of hacking!”
This eighteen-hour continuation of a beloved twenty-five year old television series evokes emotions of both love and hate. So we discuss how Mark Frost, David Lynch and Showtime made and distributed this project while adhering to the original themes of good-versus-evil and unconventional storytelling.
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Part 2 of REPORT FROM K-12
Guest: Zoë Rascoe of Druid Hills High School.
First broadcast June 15 2018.
“And it’s like BOOM, but a good boom.”
This treatise on climate change argues that we should just accept that our civilization is going to die. We might survive however, by remembering our cultural heritage. We discuss Scranton’s experience at war, as well as the variety of reactions to his claim that we should just confront our own mortality, even when we’re posting to social media.
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We discuss the history of this influential record in light of the band’s breakup and subsequent reformation. We also examine their rhetoric of anti-capitalism in relation to the production and distribution of this album.
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Guest: Dr Laura Hoopes of the Georgia Aquarium.
First broadcast June 1 2018.
“The science of caring for aquatic and terrestrial animals.”
This 2008 military film claims to be about realism and a soldier’s addiction to war. But we learn that despite writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow’s best intentions, it doesn’t accurately reflect the experience of veterans.
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