University of Colorado Denver graduate students submitted the podcasts they created, discussing a variety of ways in which people have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Colorado Denver graduate students submitted the podcasts they created, discussing a variety of ways in which people have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Colorado Denver graduate students submitted the podcasts they created, discussing a variety of ways in which people have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Colorado Denver graduate students submitted the podcasts they created, discussing a variety of ways in which people have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Colorado Denver graduate students submitted the podcasts they created, discussing a variety of ways in which people have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The songs included in this podcast are courtesy of the musicians featured.

"Shooting Star" by Maranta

"Weigh In" and "Evolve" by Brie Capone

All other sound segments are recorded from online performances.

We talk about the Academy Awards, the success of Parasite, our picks for the best film of 2019, the politics of the Oscars, and the ways in which the Academy is starting to change. This episode features Dr. Andrew Scahill and UC Denver students Alyssa Haskel, Kamesh Saba, and Jake Johnson. Spoiler alert: We discuss the endings of Parasite, 1917, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Midsommar, and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.

Cited in this episode:

Feinberg, Scott. "Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: '1917' Is 'Gimmicky,' Renée Zellweger 'Nailed It'." The Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-1917-gimmicky-renee-zellweger-nailed-it-1276607

Williams, Linda. “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess.” Film Quarterly. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1212758?seq=1

The song you hear on the show is "Belle et Triste" by Kariatida: freemusicarchive.org/music/Kariatid…elle_et_triste

We talk about Jordan Peele’s films “Get Out” and “Us,” how he’s challenging the representations of black characters in horror film, and how the themes and tropes of horror have changed in the films of the past decade. This episode features Dr. Andrew Scahill and the students of Dr. Sarah Hagelin’s film theory class from UC Denver and Kyle Harris from Westword.

Cited in this episode:

Creed, Barbara. “Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection.” (Screen, 1986) https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/27/1/44/1630470?redirectedFrom=PDF

Du Bois, W.E.B. “The Souls of Black Folk.” (A. C. McClurg & Co.‎, ‎1903) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm

Goddu, Teresa. “Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation.” (Columbia University Press, 1997) https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-America-Teresa-Goddu/dp/0231108176

“Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror” (Shudder, 2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9567548/

Mayne, Judith. "Cinema and Spectatorship." (Routledge, 1993) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203133880

The song you hear on the show is "Belle et Triste" by Kariatida: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kariatida/I_1863/Kariatida_-_I_-_01_Belle_et_triste

In celebration of our first episode, we held a live roundtable discussion to continue the conversation about the Handmaid's Tale. We talked about the adaption from the book to the series, how the series handles issues of sexism and racism, and our thoughts on podcasting as a medium to discuss literature.

The panel featured CultureKlatsch host and producer Nathalia Velez Ryan; Dr. Rodney Herring, who you heard on the first episode; Dr. Cate Wiley, who is a playwright and teaches playwriting, drama, and 20th century women writers at UC Denver; and Maddie Lutz, an undergrad student getting a bachelors degree in English Literature with a minor in Women’s and Gender studies.

We talk about the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" based on the Margaret Atwood novel and consider why this story is so relevant today and how it handles important political and social issues such as reproductive freedom, immigration, and white nationalism. This episode features Drs. Colleen Donnelly, Sarah Hagelin, and Rodney Herring from UC Denver.

Cited in this episode:

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus.” Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Ben Brewster, trans. (New York: Monthly Review, 1971). https://www.amazon.com/Lenin-Philosophy-Other-Essays-Althusser/dp/1583670394/

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine. (Routledge, 1993). https://www.amazon.com/Monstrous-Feminine-Feminism-Psychoanalysis-Popular-Fictions/dp/0415052599

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks, selections of which are available in a single collection:

https://www.amazon.com/Selections-Prison-Notebooks-Antonio-Gramsci/dp/071780397X/

Projansky, Sarah. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (NYU Press, 2001). https://books.google.com/books/about/Watching_Rape.html?id=ycIuGP3ZlVwC

Silverman, Kaja. “Suture.” The Subject of Semiotics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). http://www.davidbardschwarz.com/pdf/silverman.suture.pdf

Žižek, Slajov. “Welcome to the Desert of the Real,” from the collection of essays of the same title (London: Verso, 2002). https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Desert-Real-September-Related/dp/1859844219/

The song you hear on the show is "Belle et Triste" by Kariatida: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kariatida/Sampler_EP_Vol_10/Kariatida_-_Vulpiano_Records_Sampler_EP_Vol_10_-_01_Belle_et_triste