Ahoy and avast! We’re BACK with a second swashbuckling episode discussing Season One of #OurFlagMeansDeath! 🏴☠️🐈☠️🍊⚔️Join us and special guest Lucy as we explore the role of monstrosity in empire, how the show connects trauma and revenge, the theme of retirement, found family, and much, much more 🌊⛵🐚🐟 🧜🏽♀️⚓🌴🕊️
Massive spoiler warning for the finale of Black Sails Season Four - if you haven’t watched the show already, go away now and watch it, and then come listen to our episode!
And if you haven’t already, you can check out our first episode on the show here or wherever you listen to podcasts
Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)
Primary Sources:
📺 “Our Flag Means Death” (by David Jenkins) (2022) (HBO Max)
📺 “Black Sails (2014-2017)” by Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg (Starz)
Secondary Sources:
📚 “A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates” (Cpt. Charles Johnson) (1724)
📰 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
📱 Catieosaurus on tiktok (https://www.tiktok.com/@catieosaurus?lang=en)
📻 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)
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome 📗“Monster Culture (Seven* Theses)” (https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtcmNlbmdsaXNoMnxneDo1MjE5Mzk4MTliOTE5ZjM1) *Not ten as Lili said in the episode…
Graham, Elaine L. (2002) 📚“The Gates of Difference.” Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture
📱 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
📱Social Media Handles📱:
IG and Twitter: @liliannapod
Email: liliannasprereadmediathek@hotmail.com
Tumblr: @liliannasprereadmediathek
🎹Intromusic🎹:
"Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🎹Outro Music🎹:
“Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
🎹Transition Music🎹:
“Gentle Ocean Waves Breaking on Beach d” by Fronbondi Skegs – Pixabay
“Fog Horn Sound” by solarmusic – Pixabay
