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Explore " don siegel" with insightful episodes like "54 - צ'ארלי ווריק | Charley Varrick | ד"ר שמוליק דובדבני", "Communicating Fears in Film, The Return!: "They Live" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"", "Escape from Alcatraz", "Ep. 39 Charley Varrick" and "Ep. 34 Play Misty For Me" from podcasts like ""Trashtalk טראשטוק", "Special Topics in Media", "On the BiTTE", "The Gates Of Cimino" and "The Gates Of Cimino"" and more!
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Communicating Fears in Film, The Return!: "They Live" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
October is upon us! With scary movie season under way we're returning to our "Communicating Fears in Film" theme all month long. To kick off our specialty programming this spooky season, host Garret Castleberry is joined by Scott McMurry to dissect a pair of science fiction horror films that strike at fears relating to identity and duplicity. In the spirit of last year's "The Thing from Another World/The Thing" double-feature, Special Topics revels in dualisms featuring the work of director John Carpenter. Garret and Scott first introduce Carpenter's cult film They Live (1988) before winding back the "Invasion movie" clock to assess the film's relationship to Don Siegel's 1956 classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The dialogic duo resurrect their "Communicating Fears in Film" methodology, including presence versus absence, imitation versus innovation, and the centrality of understanding cultural context, before introducing their newest layer of analytic discourse, filmic echoes.
Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry
Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)
Fears in Filmography:
Don Siegel. (Director). Invasion of the Body Snatchers. California, USA: Allied Artists Pictures/Walter Wanger Productions, 1956.
John Carpenter. (Director). They Live. Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA: Alive Films/Larry Franco Productions, 1988.
Phillip Kaufman. (Director). Invasion of the Body Snatchers. San Francisco, California, USA: SoloFilm/United Artists, 1978.
Recommended readings paired with Season Seven "Communicating Fears in Film":
Kendall Phillips. Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Ray Nelson. "Eight O'Clock in the Morning". 1963.
Stephen Prince. Apocalypse Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2021.
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Escape from Alcatraz
Ryan got very excited when a Don Siegel film he watched had a fairly evident full-frontal moment in the first 7 minutes of the film. His love of 50's, 60's and 70's American cinema cannot be understated as this "historically" focused episode tracks the interesting facts about Alcatraz Prison and the true story this film follows.
Yeah, we've done something a bit different here, covering the 1979 action-adventure movie ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, starring male archetype Clint Eastwood and host of other classic character actors of the time. We recently went to San Fransisco and visited the island so watching the film with actual geographical knowledge and a sense of the conditions of the prison really set a sense eeriness and familiarity we weren't expecting. I mean, this episode could easily be an advertisement for how cool and interesting that place is so sit back, enjoy our holiday snaps and videos and watch Clint stuff a bar of soap down a man's throat for only wanting his puddin'.
(In Clint voice) "How about you show me what you got?"
Ep. 39 Charley Varrick
Today I discuss my love for Don Siegel's Charley Varrick and Walter Matthau as a 70's action star.
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Ep. 34 Play Misty For Me
Join writer/producer Armando Chapman and me as we discuss Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, and the powerhouse performance by Jessica Walter.
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