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Episode 106: Get Out (2017)

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Episode 106: Get Out
[Correction: Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig are in fact on the cover of Vanity Fair, not The Hollywood Reporter and not Entertainment Weekly.]

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Get Out

“Horror Blackademics: The Get Out (2017) Syllabus”

“‘Get Out’ -inspired UCLA class gets students to dig into portrayals of race and fear”

“The Disturbing History of African-Americans and Medical Research Goes Beyond Henrietta Lacks”

“Jordon Peele on a Real Horror Story: Being Black in America”

The Skeleton Key

“‘Now You’re in the Sunken Place’: ‘Get Out’ Eyes Oscar with awards collectible of the season” 

Episode 96: Five Year Reflection

Episode 104: Near Dark (1987)

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Episode 104: Near Dark

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Near Dark

The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
* “Suck…don’t suck: Framing ideology in Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark” by Steven Jay Schneider
* “Vampires, Indians, and the queer fantastic: Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark” by Sara Gwenllian Jones

Episode 04: Let the Right One In

Episode 81: Hellraiser

Episode 98: Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Living in Darkness

Taking Tiger Mountain

“[UPDATED] Hold Up: Nikki Reed Says Ian Somerhalder Stole and Threw Out Her Birth Control Pills to Get Her Pregnant”

“James Cameron: ‘The downside of being attracted to independent women is that they don’t need you'”

“Indian Country Today hiatus is a blow to nuanced coverage of indigenous peoples”

Episode 100: The Graveyard Shift at Nashville Film Festival (2017)

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Episode 100: The Graveyard Shift at Nashville Film Festival

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Nashville Film Festival

A Closer Walk with Thee

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Insomnium

Without Name

Bloodlands

Show Yourself

JackRabbit 29

The Void

The Night Watchmen

Dawn of the Deaf

Spell Claire

HP Lovecraft’s The Beast in the Cave

Ghosting the Party

Humbug

Cake

20th Century Women

Drupal controversy:
* “Living Our Values” by Dries Buytaert
* “Thoughts on recent Drupal governance decisions” by Christie Koehler
* Open letter to Dries Buytaert

Episode 98: Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)

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Episode 98: Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Rhymes for Young GhoulsNOTES:

Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Indian Act

Interviews:
* George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
* Muskrat Magazine
* CBC

Incident at Restigouche

“On Violence and Vengeance: Rhymes for Young Ghouls and the Horrific History of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools”

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser

Los Bastardos

Never Dead Native

Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown

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Episode 97: Eve’s Bayou (1997)

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Episode 97: Eve’s Bayou
[Corrections: Fem mistakenly refers to the film The Feast of All Saints as Amistad. To add to hir mistakes, the Jia Tolentino article Fem mentions in the closing is from The New Yorker and not The New York Times.]

Eve's BayouNOTES:

Eve’s Bayou

“Eve’s Bayou: Too Good to be a Black Film?”

Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class

“Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers: New Directions for an Old Archetype”

Elle

Cave Evil: War Cults

“The Case Against Contemporary Feminism”