Welcome Watchers to The Stories We Tell, a podcast about storytelling in movies and TV show. In each episode, we’re going to break down the stories they’ve told you about you. More specifically, the “you” you’ve constructed through years of watching movies and TV shows that were feeding you fantasies disguised as fundamental truths. 

The Stories We Tell is the podcast where we uncover the stories we’ve been told (and taken up as our own) and investigate the unspoken truth behind them that the stories themselves are used to conceal. 

This inaugural season of The Stories We Tell will focus on a central, and most misunderstood, figure in the stories we tell ourselves: The Monster. From Norman Bates to Jaws to Catherine Trammel, we are going to look at the world from the perspective of the Monsters we’ve been made to fear. This podcast will function like a typical film school class. I will present a use case and position and will layer in numerous discourses to analyze the presented stories and what they could reveal. I will use the theoretical underpinnings of linguistics, semiology, critical race theory, gender studies, queer theory, semiotics, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and more. We will also dig into film historiography – which is like film history, but with a critical lens. 

Class begins in January 6, 2022. Like and follow on Spotify or subscribe on iTunes to be notified when new content is available. 

Until then, this is Kacy Boccumini asking please, watch carefully.

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