Guest: Dr. Wayne Clough of the Smithsonian and Georgia Tech.
First broadcast September 27 2019.
“The Smithsonian is emphatically NOT America’s attic.”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 440: Things New and Strange
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Monthly Archives: September 2019
Supercontext: A Zed and Two Noughts
Thank you to our Co-producer patron Miriam Meaney for selecting this week’s topic!
This 1985 Peter Greenaway film approaches storytelling with the perspective that there is no meaning to reality despite our organized attempts to create it. We talk about how Greenaway uses the traditions of Dutch paintings and anatomical animal studies to get this message across or frustrate us by trying.
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Additional Resources:
- Symmetry and Structure in Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts
- Organizing the ZOO: Peter Greenaway’s A Zed & Two Noughts
- Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill
- Alemany-Galway, M., & Willoquet-Maricondi, P. (2008). Peter Greenaway’s Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema (Vol. Rev. ed). Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.
- De Beauregard, R. C. (2010). Green Apples and Red Prawns: The Colour of Time in Peter Greenaway’s A Zed & Two Noughts ( Z.0.0.). Journal of British Cinema & Television, 7(1), 82.
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 439: Graffiti Kings
Guest: Randy Gue of the Rose Library at Emory Libraries.
First broadcast September 20 2019.
“That’s an Atlanta joke that some of you got.”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 438: Bad Luck and Trouble: The Musician Edition
Part 3 of BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE
First broadcast September 13 2019.
Playlist at https://bit.ly/2mhL2KN
“Do you hear the black helicopters?”
Supercontext: Takeshi Kitano’s Dolls
Thank you to our Co-producer patron Chris Marlton for selecting this week’s topic!
This 2002 Japanese art film is slow, meticulously shot, and has wonderful, ornate costumes. We discuss how it was influenced by a form of traditional puppetry but should be approached more like a meditative painting.
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Additional Resources:
- Finding Love in Loss and Tragedy
- Dolls
- Dolls by Takeshi Kitano (Review)
- The cult Japanese movies outfitted by Yohji Yamamoto
- Inviolable Attachments: Takeshi Kitano’s Dolls
- Dolls (2002)
- Redmond, S. (2013). The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano : Flowering Blood. London: WallFlower Press.
- Sherman Hollar. (2012). Kitano Takeshi. Britannica Biographies, 1.
Library 20/20, Episode 006 – In the Stacks, Part 3
What do we get out of the books being in the library building? And is that a library service?
Music: “The Informant” by Steelism, “Machinery” by Eddy, and “Fuzzy Caterpillar,” “Gravy,” & “Blanks” by Podington Bear.
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 437: Second Lives
First broadcast September 6 2019.
“You know how this is a college radio station?”
Supercontext: On Moral Fiction by John Gardner
In this 1978 non-fiction book, Gardner argues that art and writing should be moral and that his peers in the literary community are immoral for failing to uphold this tradition. We discuss Gardner’s tragic life story while trying to process this debate and whether he was right, wrong or just an asshole.
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Additional Resources:
- John Gardner, Pugilist at Rest
- Moral Fiction
- John Gardner raided the castle of American fiction, a bit like Grendel. By David Stanton
- Getting the Elephant off the Baby: A Look Back at John Gardner’s On Moral Fiction
- John Gardner’s Tricksy Death and Tangled Legacy
- On Moral Fiction, By John Gardner, Analysis by Christian Author Lorilyn Roberts
- John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy
- What Do You Mean, ‘Moral’ Fiction?
- An Interview with John Gardner
- John Gardner
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 436: MARTA Archaeology
Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Glover, Georgia State University.
First broadcast August 30 2019.
“It is cool to hold something that’s like a hundred-plus years old.”