Reel War Project

By Redwood Sound LabsTV & Film

Reel War Project episodes

April 07, 2022 Dirt Maps Episode 2: Full Metal [Straight] Jacket with Alex Biggs Small: the weaponization of madness?
In the second episode of Dirt Maps for Reel War Project, Aaron and Biggs from A Cosmic Void discuss the meaning of the title Full Metal Jacket. Asylum vibes, the monstrification of insanity, institutional madness as a weapon of war, "Hey there! Hi there! Ho there! You're as welcome as can be!"
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30 min
April 04, 2022 B6E2 Full Metal Jacket
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron look at 1987’s iconic Full Metal Jacket. They talk about Post Traumatic Cinema, Hero Trauma Myths and the limits of parody. “Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?” “WHO SAID THAT!?!?!”
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3 hr 12 min
March 31, 2022 Dirt Maps Episode 1: Naomi Toth and Exceptional Men from Conrad to Coppola
This week on the first ever Dirt Maps, Aaron sits down with Dr. Naomi Toth to discuss her article comparing portrayals of Kurtz ‘Exceptional Men from Conrad to Coppola’. Heart of Darkness! Apocalypse Now! The language of exeptionalism as criticism. “The horror!”!
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42 min
March 28, 2022 B6E1 Apocalypse Now
This week Charles, Aaron and Eli talk about the banality of evil, performing imperialism, and the camera gun: “don’t look at the camera, this is for television!!”, it’s 1979’s Apocalypse Now.
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2 hr 58 min
March 21, 2022 B5E4 Children of War
This week Charles, Aaron and Eli discuss Batch 5: Children of War. We review Afropessimism, White Exceptionalism, sound politics, and the limits/potentials of bloodless/bloody anti-war movies. Do you have a Little Milius Dude inside you?
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1 hr 11 min
March 14, 2022 B5E3 Red Dawn (1980)
This week on Reel War Project Charles, Aaron and Eli extend their discussion on child soldiers by talking about triumphant war gothic, white settler exceptionalism, and the cola wars: it's "soda" not "pop!" Avenge me! We watched Red Dawn (1984)!
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2 hr 30 min
March 07, 2022 B5E2 Beasts of No Nation
This week on Reel War Project Charles, Aaron and Eli discuss 2015's Beasts of No Nation. Afro-Pessimism, White Exceptionalism, Child Soldiers, Positional story telling (and all associated cop-outs): what more could you want in a war podcast?
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3 hr
February 28, 2022 B5E1 The Bridge (1959)
This week on the Reel War Project Charles, Aaron and Eli discuss the 1959 German film The Bridge. We talk about children soldiers, boyhood, off-camera war, Ur fascism and fascist apologetic.
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2 hr 47 min
February 21, 2022 B4E4 Star Wars Cultures
This week on Reel War Project Charles, Aaron, and Eli talk about Batch 4: Star Wars Cultures. Music and affect, the triumph of death vs the rejection of cruelty, and the individual masculine capability to enact spectacles of slaughter-Boffin-style! Use the force, baby!
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57 min
February 14, 2022 B4E3 Star Wars: New Hope
This week on Reel War Project Charles, Aaron, and Eli talk about arguably the most important American War film of all time - 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope. Bask in the afterglow of planetary destruction as we discuss sound politics, better AND worse standpoint, and cotton candy war culture.
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2 hr 42 min

About Reel War Project

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Charles is a Purple-Heart veteran and long-time cinephile; Aaron is a critical rhetorician and Co-Host of The Alien Movie Project and together they are exploring the narrative, affective, and production politics of the most actiony of action movies: The War Movie.