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On this week's episode we talk about Bradley Cooper's 2018 remake of A Star Is Born. Is it set in New York or LA? Does it take place in 2008 or 2018? Is it possible for an alt-country star to sell out a stadium tour? We do not answer these questions, but we do talk a lot about Lady Gaga.

Featured in this ep: a month-late Met Gala recap, how star personas deepen performances, and (unfortunately) Ed Sheeran

Like Janet Gaynor and Judy Garland before her, Barbra Streisand lost an Oscar for her tireless work in A Star Is Born. But this movie take those classics and revives them with sex, drugs, and shirtless Kris Kristofferson.

Featured in this ep: novelistic constructions of character, authorship, and the Naked Brothers Band (again).

55 years ago, Judy Garland became the second woman lose the Oscar for her performance in A Star is Born. This week, we talk about her role in the George Cukor's 1954 remake, how stars' offscreen lives affect their onscreen roles, and also the Naked Brothers Band for some reason.

You can read Richard Dyers' Stars here: https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2017/FAVBKalt1/um/68312072/Richard_Dyer_Star_Studies.pdf

For the next four weeks, Allison and Casey will be watching all four A Star Is Borns. First up: A Star Is Born (Wellman, 1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Frederic March.

Featured in this ep: stars as industrial phenomenon, a history of Hollywood's studio system, and an endorsement of the Curly Girl Method (CGM).

You can read Richard Dyer's "Stars" here: https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2017/FAVBKalt1/um/68312072/Richard_Dyer_Star_Studies.pdf

Think back to June 2018...the air was warm, the sun was shining, and everyone was losing their minds about Hereditary. This week, we set down the academic texts and talk about Toni Colette, that decapitation scene, and a lot of other movies we find way more interesting than Hereditary.

For the third week of our horror miniseries, Allison showed Casey an Italian horror Classic: Suspiria (Argento, 1977).

Featured in this ep: technicolor filmmaking techniques, whether it's possible to de-center dicks in our psychoanalysis of horror, and how Casey thought Thom Yorke is pronounced (with the "h").

You can read more about [italian voice] giallos here: http://www.academia.edu/11263204/_The_Giallo_and_the_Spaghetti_Nightmare_Film_

And Barbara Creed's "Woman as Witch" chapter from The Monstrous Feminine here: https://bit.ly/2RB41xC

For the second installment of our miniseries on horror, we're diving into Scream, Wes Craven's mid-nineties masterpiece.

Featured in this ep: foreplay, the ouroboros of self-awareness, and whether your boyfriend is going to kill you (he is).

You can read Carol Clover's "Her Body, Himself" here: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/paranoid70scinema/HerBodyHimself.pdf

Welcome back! It’s Halloween year round for us spooky weirdos, so we’re getting back on the podcast grind with John carpenter’s 1978 classic. This kicks off a horror series we’ll be continuing until the end of the year, so prepare for more seasonally appropriate content.

Featured in this ep: horror and capital T trauma, the androgyny of the Final Girl, and why nothing is decisively feminist.

Did you know this musical basically has to be choreographed in the same way every time it's performed? Casey did not know this, and finds out she may actually love musicals for the way they use space and make you feel alive through the power of dance.

WE'RE HERE! And so is the last season of Girls, where this crazy bottle episode makes us think about men having terrible posters of Woody Allen and other Serious Things.