Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
This 2009 psychological thriller pretends to be a found footage horror film, when it's actually a dramatic exploration of grief. We discuss writer/director Joel Anderson's process, as well as the funding, distribution and historical themes in the movie.
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- Why Lake Mungo is the best ghost film you’ve never seen
- Lake Mungo Filmmaker Joel Anderson Interview - Media/Culture Reviews
- Lake Mungo – A picture never lies…
- Mourning an Aboriginal death
- Pleistocene human remains from Australia: A living site and human cremation from Lake Mungo, western New South Wales
- Australian Ghost Stories Detail a Very Isolated, Lonely Brand of Terror
- Alice Kept Secrets: Cinematic Grief and ‘Lake Mungo’ (2008)
- SXSW '09 Interview: "Lake Mungo" Director Joel Anderson
- Review of Joel Anderson's faux documentary thriller LAKE MUNGO
- Scribe tapped for 'Lake' remake
It's our third annual Christmas ghost story episode and we're looking into this 2011 debut of the popular horror anthology series by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. We discuss Murphy's mission, the show's popularity and its contrast of trashy excessive violence and sex, with themes of mainstream, heteronormative patriarchy.
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- 'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy talks premiere and Rubber Man -- EXCLUSIVE
- Ryan Murphy Talks American Horror Story
- Keetley, D. (2013). Stillborn: The Entropic Gothic of American Horror Story. Gothic Studies, 15(2), 89.
- Nussbaum, E. (2018). Mk. Big. New Yorker, 94(13), 52.
- 'American Horror Story’: Ryan Murphy warns finale's brutal labor scene is 'the most shocking scene we’ve ever done' -- EXCLUSIVE
- Set Pieces: The haunted house of 'American Horror Story'
- Jamie Brewer of 'American Horror Story' Is First Woman With Down Syndrome to Star in Off-Broadway Play
- Interview with Jamie Brewer
- What Hollywood Can Learn From TV's Gayest Show
- Kim, Yaeri. "Only the First of Many": Repetition and Subversion in American Horror Story: Murder House, Feminist Studies in English Literature, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2014 Available from:"Only the First of Many": Repetition and Subversion in American Horror Story: Murder House [accessed Dec 16 2018].
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This 3-disc debut by an accomplished saxophonist was universally acclaimed as a sea change in music. We discuss how Washington was influenced by friends, family, history and dreams, while trying to challenge his listeners with genre-defying sounds.
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- Meet Kamasi Washington, the High Priest of Sax
- Horn of plenty: Kamasi Washington's epic approach to jazz
- Interview: Kamasi Washington Talks About ‘The Epic’
- Kamasi Washington Is Leading a Musical Revolution — and It's Time to Learn His Name
- CHANGING THE GUARD: THE EPIC JOURNEY OF KAMASI WASHINGTON
- Kamasi Washington Has Conquered the Jazz World. What Does He Do Next?
This long-form essay by one of the hosts of On the Media argues that our current sociopolitical conflicts stem from a dissolution of facts and reality. We look at Gladstone's manifesto for producing her radio show to unpack her project here, while considering her advice for bolstering our own personal realities.
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- The Facts Must Matter: On “The Trouble with Reality”
- Gladstone's Book Answers The Question: What Ails Our Democracy?
- Q&A: Brooke Gladstone on the media, Trump, and truth
- Brooke Gladstone
- 'On The Media's' Brooke Gladstone on 'The Trouble with Reality'
- Interview: Journalist Brooke Gladstone And 'The Trouble With Reality'
- On The Media’s Brooke Gladstone on the redefinition of truth in the Trump era
- Journalist Brooke Gladstone Explains The 'Trouble With Reality'