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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
In this episode, Alaina resurrects one of her old series: looking at the live-action feature films of the Walt Disney studio. Following the deaths of the studio's founding brothers, and the beginning of a long period of rocky financials, Disney's film output was, well, boring and bad. We look over their movies from 1970-1975 to point out the few bright spots, place people and trends into their contexts, and bring up the much better work these artists were capable of.
Links!
- The matte paintings of the era
- Books by Mako's father, Taro Yashima: The New Sun, Horizon is Calling, Crow Boy
- Lament for Confederation, Chief Dan George, 1967
- Breaking Mayberry episode 87: Who Gave my Baby a Tribal Tat?
- Bizarre Podcast: Dogs Must Die (iTunes) (RSS)
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Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
In this episode Grant teaches us about the Benin Bronzes, thousands of exquisite pieces of art that are not made of bronze, and not in Benin. And to talk about this specific crime of colonialism, we have to talk about the empire it came from, and the shifting dynamic between Europe and the world as capitalism and white supremacy developed side-by-side.
Links!
- Imperial Looting and the Case of Benin
- 7 Museums that Hold over 2000 of the Benin Bronzes
- This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned?
- Coronation of Oba Ewuare II
- Last Shooting on Itch.io and on DriveThruRPG
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
In the 1980s America's health infrastructure failed to adequately respond to an epidemic, which showed in greater contrast failures across society. This week, Grant is teaching us about one group's commitment to correct that failure through civil disobedience. By prioritizing disruption over image, and relentlessly claiming the moral high ground, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power drastically improved the lives of people living with HIV and reduced its spread.
Links!
- ACT UP NY
- The ACT UP Historical Archive
- June 5, 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Pneumocystis Pneumonia, the first published report on what would be named AIDS
- Larry Kramer 1982 Interview On AIDS with NBC News
- Don Francis' Frontline interview
- 1,112 and Counting
- Gran Fury
- Six Feats Under's Monsterhearts 2 campaign
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Ninety years ago today, the code of standards known as the Hays Code was put into effect, shaping the form and content off all mainstream film for decades to come. In this episode, Alaina teaches us where it came from, what purpose it served, and how it fell out of use. Is self-regulation a matter of morality or profit? Does power lie in the rules or their enforcer? Did people in the 1940s actually share beds?
Links!
- The MPAA
- The Sins of Hollywood by Ed Roberts
- Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
- The 1927 "Dont's" and "Be Carefuls"
- The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930
- Betty Boop's pre- and post-enforcement designs
- Sex Archie bonus 15: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
In 1908, Anne Shirley was introduced to the world, and became one of the most popular figures in all-ages literature. Anne was the creation of Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote 20 novels in a prolific writing career. In this episode, Alaina teaches us about Montgomery's life, perspective, and tragedies; and also the impact of her stories and their many adaptations.
Links!
- KindredSpaces, the LM Montgomery research collections
- A guide to the many translations of Anne of Green Gables
- Map of Prince Edward Island sites related to Montgomery
- Abandoned Avonlea: Anne theme park in Japan now like a ghost town
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Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
The New Deal was a sweeping suite of programs and policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s. Several of those programs provided for artists in exchange for their labor producing new art. What kind of art sprouted from this system? How did society benefit from a boom in freely available art and performance? Why hasn't this level of investment continued?
Links!
- WPAmurals.com
- WPA Posters at the Library of Congress
- PBS Crash Course on the FTP
- The Slave Narrative Project on Project Gutenberg
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Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Grant wants us to get some culture, so he shines a light on the roots of theater in the West. Hrotsvitha was inspired to use the language of a playwright who lived a millennium before her to impart moral lessons to those who followed her. Hildegard of Bingen steered liturgical drama toward a form much more recognizable as theater, and invented a genre that would become dominant hundreds of years later.
Links
- Gandersheim Abbey
- The Plays of Roswitha (Translated by Christopher St John)
- International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies
- Digitized images of Scivias, Hildegard's first volume on her visions
- Ordo Virtutm
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Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
In the 1980s a plague struck America, and because of who it hit hardest, America was happy to let it run its course and let them die. The arts are how we make sense of that, and point toward what comes next. Alaina takes us through the conception and reception of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, perhaps the most highly-regarded play of the 20th Century. We also learn more about the real person depicted in it, and share our personal connections to the work. Is it possible to separate the personal from the political, or the path of history from faith? Can a work revitalize its medium, or should credit go to the historical moment that produced it? Can something still be too long even if every part of it is brilliant?
Links!
- Angels in America
- HBO Miniseries
- Angels in America: The Complete Oral History
- Behind the Scenes on a Two-Play Day
- Avert.org
- New York Times review of the opera adaptation
- Vanity Fair article on Roy Cohn's mentorship of Donald Trump
- The Purple Pamphlet
- Gextra Life donation page
- Gextra Life YouTube playlist
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Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
In this episode, Grant talks about the United States' Public Broadcasting Service, the most trusted institution in the country. A need for non-commercial programming became a need for a federally-supported structure, which quickly became a national treasure. How does the profit motive shape content? What will it take for public broadcasting to continue? How much time could we spend just reminiscing?
Links!
- PBS
- The Corporation for Public Braodcasting
- Newton Minow's "A Vast Wasteland" speech
- The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
- Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate subcommittee testimony
- PBS Digital Studios
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Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Alaina returns to another small piece of 1893's Columbian Exposition, and look at the Woman's Building. Designed and decorated by trailblazing women, and filled with work and exhibits by women from around the world, it was one of the most popular buildings at the fair. The fair also hosted the World’s Congress of Representative Women, a week-long convention on women's issues and a landmerk in early feminist history. Did it fulfill its purpose? Who benefited the most? What can women's movements today learn from the successes and mistakes of 1893?
[Note: The murals were 58x12 feet, not inches]
Links!
- Transcribed speeches from The World's Congress of Representative Women
- Festival Jubilate, Op.17 sheet music
- The Woman's Building, Interior
- Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building, Cover
- Mary Cassatt's "Modern Woman" mural
- Pearl Hart, The Last Lady Outlaw
- Final Bid: The Cinematic Auction Game
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