Beyond The Trope

We're off this week and next. We'll see you again on January 6, 2015!

This week we interview Jamin and Kiowa Winans, producers of The Frame, out now on DVD and BluRay and available at http://double-edge-films.myshopify.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Ink (Movie)

Westword interview with Jamin and Kiowa Winans by Jason Heller http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2014/10/the_frame_jamin_winans_of_ink_makes_a_new_movie.php

WORLD WAR Z (Book) by Max Brooks

Denver Comic Con

Akira (Movie)

11:59 (Movie)

Take Shelter (Movie)

Sunshine (Movie)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Movie)

12 Monkeys (Movie)

Brazil (Movie)

Heat (and other Michael Mann Movies)

Robert Zemeckis

Barry Levinson

Terry Gilliam

Toys (Movie staring Robin Williams)

Florence and the Machine

CedarFoundation.org

With the Holiday Season soon upon us, we talk Holidays in Fiction. It's a fun short episode about our favorite time of year.

Mentioned in this episode:

HOGFATHER by Terry Brooks

HARRY POTTER (Book Series) by J. K. Rowling

THE NAME OF THE WIND by Patrick Rothfuss

Love Actually (Movie)

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER by Barbara Robinson

Story Tension. The backbone of great fiction.

Mentioned in this episode:

New Girl (TV Show)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien

THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY by John le Carré

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen

CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth E. Wein

THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORTAL NICHOLAS FLAMMEL (Book Series) by Michael Scott

HARRY POTTER (Book Series) by J. K. Rowling

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green

What is Character Agency, and why is it important? That's the topic for this week's episode!

Mentioned:

James Bond (Character created by Ian Fleming)

TIR ET LIR (Play) by Marie Redonnet

I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak

Butter (Movie)

1984 by George Orwell

THE GIVER by Lois Lowry

READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline

THE TWO PRINCESSES OF BAMARRE by Gail Carson Levine

Tamora Pierce

ELLA ENCHANTED by Gail Carson Levine

SPINDLE'S END by Robin McKinley

Penelope (Movie)

SEPTIMUS HEAP (Book Series) by Angie Sage

Dr. Who (TV Show)

CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth E. Wein

This week, it is our pleasure to interview the amazing Jim Butcher, author of THE DRESDEN FILES, CODEX ALERA, and the upcoming CINDER SPIRES. After the interview, the three of us sit down to discuss writing communities.

Mentioned in this episode:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Show)

ANITA BLAKE: VAMPIRE HUNTER (Book Series) by Laurell K. Hamilton

JURASSIC PARK by Michael Crichton

Pokemon (TV Show)

Big Trouble in Little China (Movie)

Anton Strout

CINDER SPIRES (Book Series) by Jim Butcher

THE DRESDEN FILES (Book Series) by Jim Butcher

CODEX ALERA (Book Series) by Jim Butcher

The Absolute Write Forum

Predators and Editors

SFWA

Write On Con

Mulan (Disney Movie)

DINOTOPIA by James Gurney

SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators)

RWA

WICKED by Gregory Maguire

This week we dive deeper into tropes, focusing on Fantasy Tropes.

Mentioned in this episode:

tvtropes.com

GAME OF THRONES (Novel) by George R. R. Martin

J. R. R. Tolkein

James Joyce

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA by C. S. Lewis

THE CODEX ALERA by Jim Butcher

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS by Lemony Snicket

CINDER by Marissa Meyer

CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON (Movie)

Writing Excuses Podcast

THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

Gregory Maguire

DOROTHY MUST DIE by Danielle Paige

MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs

WAITING FOR GODOT (Play) by Samuel Beckett

THE NAME OF THE WIND by Patrick Rothfuss

DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE by Laini Taylor

Terry Brooks

Full Metal Alchemist (TV Show)

SABRIEL by Garth Nix

The Matrix (Movie)

THE KEEPERS Trilogy by Lian Tanner

Sky High (Movie)

THE LOST YEARS OF MERLIN by T. A. Baron

ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card

Star Trek: Deep Space 9

THE SWORD IN THE STONE (Disney Movie and book by T. H. White)

Pokemon (TV Show)

Robotic (TV Show)

Dragonball Z (TV Show)

THE MAGICIAN by Michael Scott

HARRY POTTER (Series) by J. K. Rowling

Gail Carriger

A two-topic episode featuring Body Language and Dialogue.

Mentioned:

Dr. Paul Ekman

Lie to Me (TV Show)

WICKED by Gregory Maguire

THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE by Elizabeth Goudge

Join us as we walk down memory lane. It's time to talk books from our childhood!

Mentioned in this episode:

WHITE FANG by Jack London

Nancy Drew (Book Series)

Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Book Series)

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne (Book Series)

SABRIEL by Garth Nix (Narrated by Tim Curry)

Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J Sobol (Book Series)

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Book Series)

LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott

A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle

THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton

FROG AND TOAD by Arnold Lobel

INDIAN CAPTIVE by Lois Lenski

THE TWO PRINCESSES OF BAMARRE by Gail Carson Levine

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (Book Series)

Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (Book Series)

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

G. K. Chesterton

CURIOUS GEORGE (Book Series)

ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS by Neil Gaiman

Pokémon (TV Show)

Disney Princess Book Series

Disney Fairy Book Series

Young Jack Sparrow Book Series

American Girl Book Series

Reading Rainbow (TV Show)

The Land Before Time (Movie)

Berenstain Bears by Stand Berenstain and Jan Berenstain (Book Series)

GOODNIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown and Pat Hancock

IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE by Laura Numeroff

Plagiarism is terrible. There is a current incident that we discuss in this week's episode.

Mentioned:

Rachel Ann Nunes (ranunes.com)

The Absolute Writer Forum

Predators and Editors

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

J. K. Rowling

The James Potter e-book series by G. Norman Lippert

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