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!”
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!”
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?”
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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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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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.
First broadcast August 12 2016.
“I want to talk about chaos, man.”