Guest: Melinda Baldwin of Physics Today.
First broadcast March 29 2019.
“There were other consequences, don’t you think?”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 418: Peer Review and the Cold War
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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Supercontext: Angel Dust, by Faith No More
This 1992 album is celebrated as one of the best of the era but we look at the dysfunctional, toxic relationships between the five band members, and we find that the pressures of the music business, touring, and getting older, led to internal conflicts that made it harder for Faith No More to just be a group of goofy weirdos.
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Additional Resources:
- THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING
- Talking music and zoning with Roddy Bottom of Faith No More
- Faith No More – Making Of Angel Dust (Full)
- Faith No More: ‘We’ve made bad decisions our whole career. That’s why the English champion us’
- 26 YEARS AGO: FAITH NO MORE RELEASE ‘ANGEL DUST’
- 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT FAITH NO MORE’S ‘ANGEL DUST’
- HEAVY METAL HOMO
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 417: New Library, New Librarian
Guests: Cynthia Kutka, Georgia Tech Library
First broadcast March 22, 2019
Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/03/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-march-22nd-new-library-new-librarian-episode-417/
“Is a library like a band?”
Supercontext: The Prisoner
This 1967 British TV show is revered as a cult classic that was radical and countercultural, while symbolizing philosophical arguments about individualism vs. collectivism. We take a deeper look at star Patrick McGoohan and the commercial interests behind the show to ask if it’s ultimately more conservative than pop culture likes to remember.
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Additional Resources:
- A Spy Trapped in a Nightmare of Psychedelia
- GEORGE MARKSTEIN interviewed by Chris Rodley
- Number Six At 50: The 50th Anniversary Of ‘The Prisoner’
- How did The Prisoner ever get made?
- Patrick McGoohan Explains The Meaning Of The Prisoner, A TV Cult Classic
- Alan Moore Remembers Patrick McGoohan’s “The Prisoner”: Part 1
- What on earth was The Prisoner all about?
- McGuire, J. T. (2014). A Mentor-Protégé Relationship?: Orson Welles, Patrick McGoohan, and The Prisoner Television Series. Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 31(7), 647.
- Hanna, E. (2014). Be Selling You: The Prisoner As Cult and Commodity. Television & New Media, 15(5), 433.
- Woodman BJ. Escaping Genre’s Village: Fluidity and Genre Mixing in Television’s The Prisoner. Journal of Popular Culture. 2005;38(5):939
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 416: Teaching The Archives
Guest: Nick Sturm of Georgia Tech.
First broadcast on March 16 2019.
“Bringing them into these materials is just amazing to me.”
Supercontext: The White Album, by Joan Didion
This 1979 collection of essays attempts to reveal the 1960s and California as stories without narratives. We discuss how Didion’s work was branded because of her gender, class, and lack of politics, despite her insistence that writing was only an attempt to make sense out of chaos.
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Additional Resources:
- The Top 10 Essays Since 1950
- Joan Didion’s Style
- Joan Didion: Staking Out California
- There’s a reason Joan Didion’s work endures: she changed the way we wrote
- We Tell Ourselves Stories: Didion’s “White Album” Takes to the Stage
- From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion
- The White Album, by Joan Didion
Library 20/20: Episode 005 – In the Stacks, Part 2
What happens when you can’t have what you want, when you want it?
Music: “The Informant” by Steelism, “Modulation of the Spirit” by Little Glass Men, “City in Ruins” by Máscaras, and “Boop” by Podington Bear.
ENCORE Lost in the Stacks, Episode 267: Authors: Flannery O’Connor
Part 2 of AUTHORS
Guest: Monica Miller of Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
First broadcast August 7 2015.
Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=12577
“What are thinking of when you say ‘weird Georgia’?”
Supercontext: Tamasha
This 2015 Indian romantic comedy uses a meta-narrative to deconstruct expectations about identity and everyday life. We question the assumptions writer/director Imtiaz Ali makes about gender roles, while wondering how much the real infidelity between the lead actors complicated the film’s big theme.
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Additional Resources:
- ‘Tamasha’ not autobiographical, says Imtiaz Ali
- Anushka Sharma Rejected ‘Tamasha’ Because The Role Wasn’t ‘Meaty’ Enough For Her
- ‘Tamasha’ is about choosing your own story: Imtiaz Ali
- An inspiration, a formula, a discovery— filmmaker Imtiaz Ali breaks down ‘love’
- Love aaj kal
- Watch Imtiaz Ali Talk about This Iconic Tamasha Scene Where Deepika Cried for Real
- Ranbir, Deepika break down on sets of ‘Tamasha’
- Ranbir, Deepika’s Personal History Doesn’t Bother Tamasha Director
- Censor Board beeps saali in Imtiaz’s film
- 2 years of Tamasha: I meet people who tell me that the film changed their life, says Imtiaz Ali
- Here’s why Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha is more than just a movie
- Why Imtiaz Ali Movies Are Beautiful And Most Of All Tamasha
- Tamasha Was Made With a View the Audience is Not Stupid, Says Imtiaz Ali
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 415: How To Write a Book II: Transformer
Guest: Ezra Furman
First broadcast March 1 2019.
“Ambiguity is a major building block of queerness, and Lou Reed may be the most ambiguous rock star who ever lived.”