Hear ye hear ye! Please join us in welcoming for its debut on our podcast, the HBO sleeper hit, and gay pirate rom-com of our hearts, Our Flag Means Death! 🏴☠️🐈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
This will be our first of two episodes focusing on season 1 of OFMD, in which we are once again joined by dear friend of the podcast, Lucy. Topics include the idea of piracy as performance, written and oral histories, the radical politics of eccentricity, piracy as a queer genre, queerbaiting, and of course we can’t talk about queer pirates without talking about our other favourite pirate show, Black Sails 🏴☠️
So whether you’re here for the ships ⚓ or the ships 💘, click the link in our bio to listen to some swash-buckling pirate analysis, or find us wherever you find podcasts.
📝 Shownotes: 📝
Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)
Primary Sources:
📺 “Our Flag Means Death” (by David Jenkins) (2022 - yay) (HBO Max)
🎶 “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed (1972)
🎶 “Avalanche” by Leonard Cohen (1971) [For those still wondering about the song that played in both OFMD and Black Sails, it was this one, performed by Nick Cave! https://youtu.be/S_iveMTyxH4]
📺 “Black Sails (2014-2017)” by Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg (Starz)
📚 “A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates” (Cpt. Charles Johnson) (1724)
Secondary Sources:
📰 Gittelman, Maya (2022), “Act of Grace: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Queer Catharsis in Our Flag Means Death” (https://www.tor.com/2022/04/25/act-of-grace-masculinity-monstrosity-and-queer-catharsis-in-our-flag-means-death/comment-page-1/)
📰 Murphy, Colleen (2021) “What Is Queerbaiting?” (https://www.health.com/mind-body/lgbtq-health/queerbaiting)
📰 PHILLIPS, R. (2009), Settler colonialism and the nuclear family. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 53: 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00256.x
🎞️ AreTheyGay “How Marvel Baited its Queer Fans” (https://youtu.be/CSBTiA0Wtmo)
📱 Catieosaurus on tiktok (https://www.tiktok.com/@catieosaurus?lang=en)
🎧 Bad Gays: Anne Bonny (https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-tbgh5-118ac16)
📻 Mondello, “Remembering Hollywood’s Hays Code, 40 Years On” (2008) (https://www.npr.org/2008/08/08/93301189/remembering-hollywoods-hays-code-40-years-on)
🎧 “Our Flag Means Death (Original Soundtrack)” (Mark Mothersbaugh) (https://music.apple.com/us/album/our-flag-means-death-soundtrack-from-the-hbo-max/1619851524)
📰 The Hays Code (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode)
📱 Twitter: (“the one to find this had to be lucius because everyone else would have been like "guys jim turned into a rock :(") (https://bit.ly/3aJ6dP2) Twitter: Con O’Neill calling himself a slut (https://twitter.com/cononeilluk/status/1523430384398376962?lang=en) Zheng Yi Sao (鄭一嫂)
🎞️ “The most successful pirate of all time - Dian Murray” (https://youtu.be/6BALmDghybk)
Recommendations:
📺 “Penda’s Fen” (Play for Today, Season 4 Episode 16) (1974) (by Alan Clarke) (📄 by David Rudkin)
📽️ “Everything Everywhere all at Once” (2022) (by Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
🎶 “Life in Cartoon Motion” (2007), “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” (2009) by Mika
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