Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice was embraced by some and puzzled others. But does a movie that's designed to be repeatedly re-watched automatically become a cult film?
Additional Resources
- Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon - 9781594202247
- What makes a cult film?
- NYFF 2014: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit
- Paul Thomas Anderson Wants to Adapt Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice
- Pynchon’s Cameo, and Other Surrealities
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s Scientology Movie and Inherent Vice Adaptation Close to Finding Financing
- Paul Thomas Anderson On Inherent Vice
- A Director Continues His Quest
- Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Inherent Vice’ Starting to Boost L.A. Production
In our 2016 holiday episode we look at the forgotten Christmas Eve tradition of telling ghost stories. M.R. James' work from over a hundred years ago best represents this Victorian trend, so in his honor we bring horror to academia and safe spaces.
Additional Resources:
- How Did Antiquarians Become Action Story Heroes?
- Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them
- Christmas Ghost Stories: The Ghost of Christmas Past Goes Further Back Than You Might Realize
- M. R. James' Ghost Stories Work Eerily Well in This Graphic Fiction Form
- Telling ghost stories is a lost tradition on Christmas Eve
Marvel's latest Netflix series Luke Cage incorporates ideas about diversity into the comic adaptation formula so more kids have heroes to look up to. We look at how its inclusivity and symbolism strive to achieve this forward thinking mission.
Additional Resources:
- Luke Cage Comics And Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments
- The Making of Luke Cage: A Hero For This Moment
- The Biggest Problem With Netflix's Comic-Book Shows
- CREATING “LUKE CAGE,” THE FIRST WOKE BLACK-SUPERHERO SHOW
- Luke Cage producer compares Netflix's new Marvel series to The Wire
- Luke Cage, Mike Colter, and the "Wu-Tang-ification" of the Marvel Universe
- Here's how many people are watching 'Luke Cage' compared to other Netflix shows
- Why Netflix’s Luke Cage Is the Superhero We Really Need Now
- Inside the making of ‘Luke Cage,’ Marvel’s first black superhero show
- Why the Creator of Luke Cage Wanted to Make a “Hip-Hop Western”
In his new serialized novella Normal, Warren Ellis shows us how too much futurism can lead to "abyss gaze." Christian went to one of Ellis' few U.S. readings from the book and reports to Charlie on how social media is the new cosmic horror. And what's the difference between a foresight strategist and a strategic forecaster?
Addition Resources:
- Warren Ellis’ Normal Brings Readers a Serialized Digital Dystopia
- Warren Ellis' 'Normal' is a fast-paced dystopia about a burned-out futurist
- Warren Ellis Is Here to Talk About His New Book Normal, Gazing into the Abyss, and the Flaw in All Things
- ‘Internet Jesus’ Warren Ellis talks about the compulsion to write
- Detoxing with Warren Ellis, Whose Near-Future Vision of Digital Exhaustion is Probably Already Here
- In Warren Ellis' New Thriller Normal, Preparing For Humanity's Downfall Has A Price: Your Sanity
- Fiction and Anthropology: Interviewing Warren Ellis About Normal
- Can Serialized Fiction Convert Binge Watchers Into Binge Readers?
Regarded as one of the best graphic novels of our time, David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp is a story we all know in a way we’ve never seen before. We discuss Mazzucchelli’s decision to stop doing “assembly line comics” and take control of his works’ symbolism, formalism and experimentation.
Additional Resources:
- David Mazzucchelli at MoCCA
- Shades of Meaning Book Review | ‘Asterios Polyp,’ Written and Illustrated by David Mazzucchelli
- TCJ 300 Conversations: David Mazzucchelli & Dash Shaw
- Some Thoughts on Asterios Polyp
- Mazzuchelli’s Asterios Polyp and the Fine Line
- Annotations for Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli