Summary:   "When was the last time you invited death into your car?" This week we invite Joseph Clark, author and film scholar (and husband of Andrea Gin) on the podcast to talk about Ida Lupino's classic film noir The Hitch-Hiker. Buckle up, because we also discuss pandemic beans, Betty, and Andrea Warner's long-lost crush.     Show notes:   Joseph Clark's website   Andrea Warner and friends do a PSA for masks (Twitter)   Ida Lupino: Great Director Profile (Senses of Cinema)   The Films of Ida Lupino (The New Yorker)   ‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of an American Spree Killer (The story of Billy Cook in Life)    

Recommendations: Lisa:  Norsemen, Season 3 (TV series) Andrea W.: Betty (TV series)

Joe: The Women Film Pioneers Project (a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.) Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

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