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The Free BinReaders' Advisory: Veterans' Day 2024Harrison shares a selection of titles for Veterans' Day. In this episode: "In the Company of Soldiers" by Rick Atkinson "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer "Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body" by Lyle Jeremy Rubin "We're Seabees, Not Regular Navy" by Paul Ferrell "What It Is LikeTo Go To War" by Karl Marlantes2024-11-0807 min
The Scuttlebutt: Understanding Military CultureTony Swofford, Author of “Jarhead”VBC Scuttlebutt welcomes bestselling author Tony Swofford to talk about his iconic memoir, Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.
The book is a raw and unflinching memoir that delves into the experiences of a Marine sniper during the First Gulf War. Swofford, who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at a young age, offers a gritty, firsthand account of the psychological and emotional challenges faced by soldiers both on and off the battlefield.
The book begins with Swofford’s grueling training as a Marine, where he is shaped into...2024-10-071h 21
fiction/non/fictionJasmin Graham on Understanding SharksMarine biologist Jasmin Graham joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her new book, Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist, which is about the beauty and diversity of sharks and her career studying them inside and outside of academia. Graham, who left a doctoral program and subsequently founded the community-based organization Minorities in Shark Science to make the field more accessible and inclusive, unpacks how Jaws-inspired fears about sharks fail to understand the species. She also talks about seeing similarities in how sharks and Black people are misrepresented, misunderstood, brutalized, and threatened. Gr...2024-08-0852 min
The ProjectorsJarhead (2005)GLORY & PROPAGANDA means war movies all month long and there isn’t very many war flicks about the first gulf war. “Three Kings” is one you might think of immediately. On the other hand it’s an interesting thing to capture the mundanity of a particular conflict and during that first gulf war in 1990, a lot of soldiers charged up without seeing quite as much action as they prepared for. I mean, shit got hot but folks were more like to be accidentally bombed by their own countrymen than getting it from an Iraqi in a hand-me-down Russian tank. Today we...2024-07-1931 min
绝对领域 | 总有一部改变你一生的电影《锅盖头》：一枪未开的战争片，竟真实的如此可怕 20世纪90年代初，中东战火一触即发，著名的“沙漠风暴”正在酝酿之中。20岁的小伙子安东尼·斯沃福德（杰克·吉伦哈尔 Jake Gyllenhaal 饰）出身于军人世家，他的祖父父亲、叔父是历次战场上走下来的英雄。安东尼从小耳濡目染，立志成为一名在战场上立下莫大功勋的光荣军人。经过无数残酷训练，他终于被派往海军陆战队第七陆战远征旅第二营，正式投身中东战场。安东尼踌躇满志，却发现战争的残酷远远出乎他的意料。在此期间，家乡的女友不忠出轨，恐惧、空虚、压抑则时刻折磨他的神经，战争的真正意义更令他陷入沉思与矛盾之中…… 本片根据前美国海军陆战队队员安东尼·斯沃福德（Anthony Swofford）2003年的畅销书改编，并荣获2005年圣地亚哥影评人协会特别奖。 一部来自二十年前，名不见经传的战争片《锅盖头》，为何能够在众多经典中脱颖而出？在这期播客中，我们探讨了导演萨门德斯的手法，以及电影如何通过一系列真实而细致的刻画，将观众带入战争的深渊，启发我们对于战争、人性以及生存意义的更多思考。00:02:07:战争的绝望与内心摧残：《锅盖头》的独特之处00:04:11:枪口下的文明与野蛮：《锅盖头》战争片的独特表达方式00:06:37:《战争的印记：子弹未发射，士兵的内心战场》——电影中展现的真实战争心理00:09:57:现代战争的残酷性与战争后的创伤：一个国家最大的挑战00:13:17:心理创伤与战争美感：战争片中的复杂心理感受00:16:36:电影美学与战争题材：探寻战争片中的美感00:19:59:《真实战争：杰克吉伦哈尔的海军陆战队之旅》：电影拍摄与角色挑战00:23:14:《盟军敢死队》：战争片中的英雄形象与真实感之争00:26:36:战争与人性：《英国病人》中的反思与探索00:29:58:战争中的浪漫与荒诞：电影中的特殊魅力00:33:18:电影中的战争残酷与现代战争的冲击：无法忽视的现实2024-07-0440 min
Conflicted: A History PodcastThe Gulf War 1991 – Part 3: Land of DarknessOn January 17th, 1991, Operation Desert Storm begins. As President Bush braces for high casualties, Saddam Hussein desperately seeks a path to survival. In Baghdad, Coalition air forces rain hell on Iraqi soldiers and civilians alike, while American diplomats scramble to defuse a potential crisis in Israel. US infantrymen come face-to-face with the fourth largest army in the world…with surprising results. As oil wells burn and journalists jockey for access, the war reaches a bloody climax at the “Highway of Death”. SOURCES:Aburish, Said K. Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge. 2000.Atkin...2023-08-102h 05
The Oscar Project Podcast1.13 Author Interview with Kristen LopezSend us a textIn this author interview, I speak with Kristen Lopez, the film editor at The Wrap whose articles have appeared at Variety, MTV, TCM, and Roger Ebert. She joins me today to talk about her latest book, But Have You Read the Book?, a look at fantastic books that have been made into films over the last 100 years.Listen to hear about how Kristen went about picking the books to include in this project, where he desire to read the book before seeing the movie came from, and why she feels it's...2023-08-0118 min