Guests: Tim and Joanna Smolko of UGA.
First broadcast May 21 2021.
Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=35727
“Hey, these are all Cold War songs!”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 489: Atomic Tunes
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Lost in the Stacks, Episode 488: Who Invented Oscar Wilde?
Guest: David Newhoff, author of Who Invented Oscar Wilde? The Photograph at the Center of Modern American Copyright, and author of the blog The Illusion of More.
First broadcast May 14, 2021.
Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=35723
“That tension began from the moment that photography became available…is this just a mechanical tool that records facts, or is there something expressive that the photographer does?”
Supercontext: Throne of Blood
This 1957 Japanese samurai film is a postwar adaptation of Shakespeare’s MacBeth, but we learned that it’s also tapping into historical theatrical techniques and criticisms of nationalistic self-destruction. We turn to other writers and scholars for help unpacking these symbols we don’t know much about, while learning just how universal this critically acclaimed movie actually is.
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Additional Resources:
- 1957: When Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Throne of Blood’ Was Ahead of Its Time
- Parker, B. (1997). Nature and Society in Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 66(3), 508.
- Catherine Russell. “Men with swords and men with suits: The cinema of Akira Kurosawa” Cineaste. Winter2002, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p4. 10p. 9
- The Chilling Effect of Noh Theater on Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Throne of Blood’
- ‘Throne of Blood’: The Value and Meaning of Kurosawa’s Fog-Drenched Masterpiece
Supercontext: Taboo, Season One
We discuss Tom Hardy’s television passion project and how he produced it with his father and a string of well-known storytellers. We also examine the show’s symbolic demonization of corporations and what that says about historical accuracy and our present understanding of modern economics.
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Additional Resources:
- Tom Hardy wins dream acting role – after convincing his dad to create it for him
- ‘Taboo’ will return to FX in 2018
- BBC to break ‘Taboo’ with ‘inaccurate’ portrayal of East India Company
- FX’s Taboo Offers a Realistic Portrayal of Monopoly
- Taboo writer Steven Knight plans at least two more series of the BBC1 drama
- Taboo’s gunpowder plot: can you really make explosives from manure?
- Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy’s Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius
- A Chat With Tom Hardy: Is His ‘Taboo’ Killer a True Shaman or ‘Just F***ing Mad’?
- Everything you need to know about Taboo, the new BBC Tom Hardy drama
- TABOO: TOM HARDY EXPLAINS THE SUPERNATURAL SIDE OF THE PERIOD DRAMA
Supercontext: Absolute Planetary, Volume 1
This comic about archaeologists uncovering the secret history of pop culture took Warren Ellis and John Cassaday 10 years to complete. We discuss its interrogation of genre, intellectual property and history, in light of the cyclical nature of the comics industry some 20 years after the project started.
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- Planetary
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Trilogy
- StormWatch
- Black Summer
- All-Star Superman
- New X-Men
- RED
- Transmetropolitan
- Castlevania
Additional Resources:
- WHY PLANETARY RULES THE WORLD
- The cynical superheroics (and hopeful humanity) of Warren Ellis’ Planetary
- Beautiful and Unique Snowflakes: Warren Ellis’ ‘Planetary’
- ‘PLANETARY’: DIGGING UP THE BONES OF THE GENRE COMIC
- Telling Stories About Storytelling: The Metacomics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis
Supercontext: 2017 Inauguration Day Special: PREZ
It’s Inauguration Day for Donald Trump… so is a comic book about the first teenage president essential reading for American citizens now? We look at both the 1973 and 2015 versions of PREZ from DC Comics while discussing the cyclical nature of politics and satire.
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 314: Chaotic Neutral
First broadcast August 12 2016.
“I want to talk about chaos, man.”