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Earth Station Who: A Doctor Who PodcastDoctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday ReviewDive headfirst into the Earth Station Who Podcast as we unravel the thrilling Doctor Who episode, "The Legend of Ruby Sunday." Everything this season has been building up to this captivating moment! Join hosts Mike F., Mike G., and Mary, along with special guests Shannon Clute, Charles Martin, and Chip Johnson, as they dissect the episode's exciting plot, intriguing character developments, and key themes. Uncover the mysteries of Ruby Sunday and explore the looming darker evil threatening the entire Doctor Who universe. Whether you're a dedicated Whovian or a newcomer, our lively discussion and expert insights will keep you...
2024-06-221h 15
Earth Station Who: A Doctor Who PodcastThe Church On Ruby Road Review | Earth Station WhoThe Fifteenth Doctor meets Ruby Sunday and they share a high flying adventure against some low down nasties. Mike, Mike, Mary, Shannon Clute, and Dave Chapman unwrap the first Christmas special in six years.
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2023-12-301h 14
Earth Station Who: A Doctor Who PodcastThe Unicorn and The WaspThe Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble team up with Agatha Christie for a spiffing top hole whodunnit. Mike, Mike, Mary, and Shannon Clute look for clues among the usual suspects and try not to get stung.
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2023-09-3048 min
Earth Station Who: A Doctor Who PodcastThe Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky ReviewThe Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble encounter some friends and foes from the Doctor’s past. Mike, Mike, Mary, and Shannon Clute fan away the ATMOS fumes to clear the air about this two-parter from the fourth series of New Who.
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2023-09-0245 min
Earth Station Who: A Doctor Who PodcastEarth Station Who - Tooth and ClawThe Tenth Doctor and Rose face off against a werewolf of Scotland, a group of warrior monks, and an unamused Queen Victoria. Mike, Mike, Mary, and Shannon Clute discuss the wee naked child, the timorous beastie, and other things oot and aboot this frightfully fun episode.
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2022-09-1756 min
Earth Station Who: A Doctor Who PodcastEarth Station Who - Rise of The Cybermen / Age of SteelThe Tenth Doctor, Rose, and Mickey find themselves in a parallel universe, where zeppelins fill the sky and EarPod devices lead humanity to total cybernetic conversion. Mike, Mike, Mary, and Shannon Clute review this reintroduction of a classic Who villain and try to avoid being deleted.
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2021-05-011h 02
A Sherpa's Guide to InnovationE91: Shannon Clute - Creating an Innovation Flywheel to Empower StudentsBen & Jay continue to learn from innovation leaders with novel career journeys, this time talking with Shannon Clute, Inaugural Director of The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation in Atlanta. The Hatchery supports student innovators and entrepreneurs from all Emory University schools, and covers all stages of innovation from inspiration and learning to projects and startups. This 15,000 square foot center opened in February 2020 - which required a quick pivot after just "two great weeks" due to COVID-19. From academia to the super early days of podcasting to Turner Classic Movies to university-based innovation, Shannon consistently works at the intersection of lea...
2021-04-2146 min
Trending In Ed with Mike PalmerInnovation, Customer Discovery, and Hard-Boiled Podcasting with Dr. Shannon CluteDr. Shannon Clute joins Mike to share his broad and varied experiences in education, innovation, marketing, and digital media. He begins by telling the story of his early experiments with podcasting and other new media to innovate in higher education where Shannon was a Professor of French Literature. In the early 2000s, he launched an enormously successful podcast called Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir that began as an innovative project for his students but rapidly grew in broader appeal. From this experience, Shannon began to understand the value of pursuing your passion projects and being flexible and...
2020-08-0340 min
Revolutionary RebelsHappy Rex Manning DayHappy Rex Manning Day! "We're all in some kind of trouble, Joe."
This episode is all about "trouble"
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2020-04-1020 minRevolutionary RebelsThe 30 Day Self Love JournalOn this episode I tell you all about my Self Love Journal. Which is available on my website (link below).
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2019-07-0535 minRevolutionary RebelsThe Revolutionary Rebel - who she really isI want to introduce the inner me ... The Revolutionary Rebel
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2019-06-2815 minRevolutionary RebelsExcelsior!The Man The Myth The Legend Mr Stan Lee who to me is a Revolutionary Rebel!
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2019-06-2024 minRevolutionary RebelsIt’s a wrap! The final part of the Love Language SeriesWe’ve made it to the end!! Now you have a better insight to these Languages and how they effect your life.
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2019-06-2025 minRevolutionary RebelsLove Languages aren’t just words Part 6 Acts of ServiceHelping out your fellow man can make you and them feel good.
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2019-06-2014 minRevolutionary RebelsLove Languages Part 5 Touchy TouchyTouch it’s a Language and not like you’re thinking 😏
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2019-06-2013 minRevolutionary RebelsPart 4 Let’s spend some time together Love LanguageThis is my jam! Quality time and what it really means.
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2019-06-2015 minRevolutionary RebelsSpeaking nothing but Positivity Part 3 Love LanguagesEveryone likes to be told nice things so let’s break down what it means.
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2019-06-2017 minRevolutionary RebelsLove Languages Part 2 GiftsOn this episode we are talking about the language call “Receiving Gifts”
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2019-06-2015 minRevolutionary RebelsLove Language Series Part 1A Language that you may not know you're speaking but that can make or break any relationship.
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2019-06-2005 minRevolutionary RebelsI know I’ve been MIAIf you want more please come following me at...
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2019-06-2005 minRevolutionary RebelsIt’s Okay to not beHey guess what it’s Okay to not be Okay. Accept, Acknowledge and grow through emotions. If you want more please check out the following ...
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2019-03-0424 minRevolutionary RebelsLove Yourself#dateyourself and the life long romance that’s better than the movies. If you want more please check out the following ...
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2019-02-1323 minRevolutionary RebelsThe Firing Orde of the SBCHow you and your car have a lil bit in common.
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2019-02-0325 minRevolutionary RebelsNona's StoryThis episode I tell you about Nona and share a little bit of her story.
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2019-01-0226 minRevolutionary RebelsThe BeginningWelcome to Revolutionary Rebels Podcast!
This is just the beginning of something great!
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2019-01-0223 min
Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircast Special 4: TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film NoirMiguel Rodriquez of Monster Island Resort and Will McKinley of Cinematically Insane interview Clute and Edwards on the topic of TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir, a free multimedia online course presented by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Ball State University. This course is the latest collaboration by the creators of the Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir podcast series and will benefit from the promotional and social media support of TCM, where Clute now serves as head of Marketing and Editorial, and the innovative multimedia course materials created by Ball State University, where Edwards is Exec...
2015-06-041h 20
Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 53: Out of the Past Act IIOUT OF THE PAST is perhaps the most carefully structured of all films noir--a narrative divided (like protagonist Jeff Markum/Bailey) between an inescapable past and an impossible future, teetering on the slimmest hope for the present such that any action taken by its poor players tips them down into the abyss. Director Jacques Tourneur, cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring perfectly synchronized their efforts on this film, creating a narrative masterpiece where every image perfectly accompanies or contrasts every line of dialogue, where the whole is so self-conscious that it forces us to view each moment through...
2011-11-2445 min
Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 51: L.A. NoireA product of Clute and Edwards' longstanding fascination with film noir and hard-boiled literature, this podcast investigates how certain mid-century visual and storytelling conventions evolved into Rockstar Games/Team Bondi's new video game L.A. NOIRE. To some degree, noir and hard-boiled themselves evolved from a 19th-century literary tradition that involved contests of deduction and linear modes of problem-solving (a tradition established by Edgar Allan Poe), but in the wake of two world wars and other evidence of the havoc wreaked by modern "progress" those storytelling traditions evolved into something darker and more nuanced—something that offered less certain out...
2011-08-1637 min
Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircast Special 3: The Maltese Touch of Evil Video EssayWhile many scholars have focused on noir as a dark visual style, or a worldview marked by the anxieties and stark realities of modernity, few have addressed noir's high degree of self-consciousness or its profoundly quirky humor. In their new book,The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, Clute and Edwards focus on these underappreciated characteristics of noir to demonstrate how films noir frame their "intertextual" borrowings from on another and create visual puns, and how these gestures function to generate both compelling narratives and critical reflections upon those narratives. Drawing on the on the concept...
2011-06-1106 min
Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 48: In a Lonely Place (with Megan Abbott)Clute and Edwards welcome guest investigator Megan Abbott , the reigning Dark Dame of Noir. Megan is the author of a superb nonfiction study of hardboiled and noir protagonists entitled THE STREET WAS MINE, and three gut-wrenching throwback crime novels: DIE A LITTLE, THE SONG IS YOU, and QUEENPIN. The first title is scheduled to be released as a United Artists feature film in 2010, with Jessica Biel in the lead role. Megan's choice for this episode is the 1950 Nicholas Ray film IN A LONELY PLACE, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. To learn more about Megan's work, visit www.meganabbott.com...
2008-12-2750 min
Behind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 28: Michael Connelly RevealedTHE BRASS VERDICT, the nineteenth novel from #1 New York Times Bestselling author Michael Connelly, gives definitive proof that Connelly is the most gifted crime writer since Raymond Chandler. Those with a debt to Chandler typically lack either the research skills, the knowledge of Los Angeles, or the soul for the job. Connelly has it all. Utilizing his skills as a former journalist, he not only nails the facts of legal and police business, he captures the complex psychology of his characters. Defense lawyer Mickey Haller and detective Harry Bosch are not pure heroes, they are men: they are not...
2008-10-1544 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 27: Scott Phillips RevealedIt is hard to imagine a sequel that is any more tightly intertwined with, or distinct from, its predecessor than Scott Phillips's 2002 THE WALKAWAY. His 2000 debut novel THE ICE HARVEST was a tight tale of one day in the tragicomic life of small-time Wichita mobster Charlie Arglist. THE WALKAWAY is an ambitious prequel-sequel to that bestseller, a complex narrative that alternates between first and third person points of view, and three different time frames. It opens in the immediate aftermath of the fateful accident that ended the first book, then traces the life of Gunther Fahnstiel, from his morally...
2008-10-1340 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 26: George Pelecanos RevealedTHE TURNAROUND, George Pelecanos's fifteenth novel, is the work of a mature writer at the top of his game. It is a thoughtful examination of one event that permanently alters the lives of six young men—three black, three white. The story is both as straightforward and as complex as the characters it involves, and pulls the reader in through their palpable suffering. By creating such intimacy with this ensemble cast, Pelecanos is able to explore some of the most pressing issues facing America today—race, class, and the foreign war that districts us from these domestic battles—with depth and nu...
2008-08-1649 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 47: Bob Le Flambeur (with Howard Rodman and Mike White)Howard Rodman and Mike White are this episode's guest investigators. Rodman and White discuss Jean-Pierre Melville's great 1956 film, Bob Le Flambeur. Howard Rodman is a screenwriter, novelist and USC film professor. His most recent screen credits include Savage Grace and August. Mike White is the publisher and editors of Cahiers du Cinemart, an obscure and obtuse film magazine from Detroit. Visit Mike's website at impossiblefunky.com. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards, of www.noircast.net. To leave a comment on this episode, or make a donation to the podcast, please visit Out of the Past...
2008-08-1238 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 25: Mark Coggins RevealedThat Coggins is a disciple of Chandler and Hammett is abundantly clear in his most recent August Riordan novel, RUNOFF. Riordan is in many ways analogous to Chandler's iconic Philip Marlowe. He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man, or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. Coggins turns his man loose in one of the most hard-boiled of towns—San Francisco. The setting is no mistake. It's Coggins's home, and thus a place he ca...
2008-08-0140 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 24: Jonathan Santlofer RevealedJonathan Santlofer is an artist and author of exceptional talent, a master of virtually any visual or linguistic medium. His work has been displayed in fine galleries around the world,and his art-themed crime fiction has drawn comparisons to the work of Michael Connelly. He is the author of five novels, three starring NYPD detective turned art historian Kate McKinnon (THE KILLING ART, COLOR BLIND, THE DEATH ARTIST) and two featuring NYPD sketch artist Nate Rodriquez (ANATOMY OF FEAR and THE MURDER NOTEBOOK). He joins Clute and Edwards in June to discuss this last title, a June release from William...
2008-07-0143 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 46: Thieves Highway (with Eddie Muller)Thanks to listener support, Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noiris a featured podcast at iTunes, has generated nearly 200,000 downloads worldwide, and has a per-episode audience of over 4,000. With such a record of success, Clute and Edwards are now able to reach out to a wide range of noir scholars, to use the program as a forum to broaden public discourse on the enduring importance of this distinctively American film style. May's guest is the Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller. Eddie is the Founder and President of the Film Noir Foundation, and the man who organizes the Noir City Film...
2008-06-1852 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 23: Christa Faust RevealedChrista Faust's latest novel, MONEY SHOT, distills all the darkest and most addictive spirits of 1940's film noir and 1950's hard-boiled into a lethal elixir. Such a statement is necessarily contradictory, for Faust's unique blend of a noir atmosphere of inescapable doom with the campy, two-fisted action of Gold Medal-era pulp, gives us characters who die so that they might be reborn, and action that destroys in order to redeem. Protagonist Angel Dare, former porn star and savvy businesswoman, kind-hearted sucker and cold-hearted avenging angel, is the very embodiment of contradictions, yet makes so much sense she'll break your heart...
2008-06-0340 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 22: Seth Harwood RevealedLong before Seth Harwood's JACK WAKES UP went to print with Breakneck Books it came roaring into our homes as a series of expertly-produced podcasts, a serialized publication in the tradition of classic pulps, but with a throaty growl and lightening agility like that of Jack Palms's one true love—his 1966 Mustang Fastback K-Code GT. And in this car we find a fitting metaphor for Harwood's project: retro, but fit for today and the future; fast, really fast, but not so fast it ceases to be user-friendly. For when it does allow us to catch our breath, we also catch si...
2008-05-1648 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 3: Cybernoir PanelShannon Clute, Seth Harwood, and Richard Edwards presented this Cybernoir panel on April 5th, 2008, as part of the Noircon Conference in Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards kick things off with a discussion of how noir style and pulp publishing models seem to provide the fundamental structuring logics of emerging digital media—from blogs to podcasts, mashups to video games. Seth Harwood then relates his own experience of podcasting his first novel, JACK WAKES UP—from producing the initial audio, to embracing various new media in order to cultivate an audience and tap their enthusiasm and skills to promote his work. Finally, all...
2008-04-2841 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 3: Wise Guys and Femmes FataleWise guys and femmes fatale form the central focus of these next panel
discussions from Noircon 2008. In the first half of the podcast, Clute
and Edwards talk with authors George Anastasia and Anthony Bruno.
Anastasia and Bruno are two seasoned mob-watchers who uncover life on
the mean streets-Philly style. Based on their Noircon panel, Wise Guy
Noir, they give us an inside look into the Godfathers and Goodfellas of
Philadelphia. In the second half, Clute and Edwards lead a lively
roundtable discussion on the femme fatale with four authors who have
strong female characters at the center of their novels...
2008-04-1445 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: Editors and Publishers Tackle NoirClute and Edwards discuss the editing and publishing of noir fiction
with three members of this Day 2 Noircon panel: Charles Ardai, Stacia
Decker, and Michael Langnas. Charles Ardai is the editor and publisher
of the Hard Case Crime series. Stacia Decker is an editor who has
worked with such writers as Ray Banks, Declan Burke, Allan Guthrie and
John McFetridge. Michael Langnas is the editor-in-chief of Murdaland
Magazine, a crime-fiction journal put out by Baltimore-based publisher
Cortwright McMeel. The three guests offer us a behind-the-scenes look
into the world of noir publishing. The panelists address violence in
noir fiction, the...
2008-04-1317 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: George Lippard and Philly NoirPhiladelphia noir is the focus of two panels at Noircon 2008. The first
panel presents the historical moment, cultural milieu and writings of
the 19th century Philly writer George Lippard. Ed Petit and Robert
Polito make a compelling case to consider Lippard an important
proto-noir author, an author whose writings look back towards 1798's
gothic novel WIELAND and forward towards 20th century hardboiled. The
second panel addresses the issue of Philly noir through a discussion
among noir and crime writers currently living and working in
Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards talk more with Philly authors William
Lashner and Jon McGoran (D.H...
2008-04-1242 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day OneDay One: Opening Night. Noircon 2008 opens at the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia, PA. Clute and Edwards kick off this special podcast mini-series coverage with short interviews from the opening night reception. They talk with film critic Irv Slifkin, authors Gary Phillips, Seth Harwood, Ken Bruen, "The Czar of Noir? Eddie Muller, publisher Dennis McMillan, conference organizer Lou Boxer, and author Duane Swierczynski. We finish with an interview of the first presenter of Noircon, Professor David Schmid, who gave a talk entitled "Noir and Its Heretics.?
2008-04-0421 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 21: Ken Bruen RevealedKen Bruen's PRIEST, the fifth entry in the award-winning Jack Taylor series, has been nominated for the 2008 Edgar for Best Novel, and that still may not be high enough praise. PRIEST is the story of Galway, Ireland, a city in transition from tradition to modernity, from impoverished but united community to cutthroat capitalistic individualism, from staunch Catholicism to a crisis of consciousness. When Jack Taylor is thrust back into his native city, he is in a similar state. He's a man in transition, a man who has lost his way and his faith, a man ravaged by alcohol and terrible...
2008-03-2150 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 45: Force of EvilFORCE OF EVIL shows us that small-time graft is less dangerous than big-time rackets that have the law, the trust of the public, and the appearance of respectability on their side. Ultimately, the crime is the system itself, and the very philosophical underpinnings of capitalism are liable. And while Abraham Polonsky's courage in addressing these themes is remarkable, the degree of craft he exhibits as a rookie director is nothing short of astonishing. With Ira Wolfert, he co-authors a script so rich in its ability to expose the poverty of our dreams, and so stylized and impossibly catchy in its...
2008-03-1148 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 44: BrickRian Johnson's superlative 2005 debut film BRICK is neither a nostalgic tribute nor a modern reaction to noir style. But due to the conditions surrounding its production, it has more in common with classic noir than most films that play overtly with noir tradition: stiletto-tongued hard-boiled dialogue, razor-sharp editing, on-location shooting, the creative use of ambient sound, and narratively-rich canted angle shots and high-contrast lighting allow BRICK to overcome the pitfalls of a small budget and limited crew–just as these same techniques allowed classic films such as DETOUR or THE HITCH-HIKER to do. In fact, financial constraints lend BRICK an ar...
2008-02-0539 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 43: They Live By NightTHEY LIVE BY NIGHT is film noir at its best. Edward Anderson's little-known hard-boiled rural bandit novel is made into a screenplay as lean as the post-war dreams of its players. The shifty camera frames every sucker that comes its way, making them false promises then plunging each into a darkness more than night. Rookie director Nicholas Ray mercilessly rolls rising stars Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell in the existential muck, but manages nonetheless to show us the ethereal gold that lines their hearts and dreams. Beyond the sublime writing, acting, and directing, what truly sets the film apart is...
2008-01-0434 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 42: The Ice HarvestThis special episode of OUT OF THE PAST is full of holiday surprises. Clute and Edwards investigate the 2005 neo-noir Christmas comedy THE ICE HARVEST, then speak with Scott Phillips, author of the 2000 hardboiled novel on which the film is based. While the book contains its share of dark humor, it is largely a tale of the moral tipping point in the life of Witchita Mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (played by John Cusack), who discovers his capacity for ruthlessness when backed into a corner. The movie plays down the moral crisis and plays up the comedy, but director Harold Ramis manages...
2007-12-051h 06Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 41: The Glass Key and Miller's CrossingStuart Heisler's 1942 film THE GLASS KEY retained the personages and major plot twists of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel by the same name, but wiped the grim off the original tale. By cleaning up the characters and their motives, the film missed an opportunity to picture its stellar cast (Dunlevy, Ladd, and Lake) in a noir light. Instead, for much of its running time it looks and feels like the glamour whodunnit pictures, or populist clean-government reform films, of the 1930's. Hammett's novel finally received proper treatment in the Coens' 1990 masterpiece MILLER'S CROSSING. Though filmed in color, this movie borrows heavily from...
2007-11-101h 05Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 40: GildaRita Hayworth is GILDA. From the flip of her fiery hair to the reprise of her incendiary song, she sizzles the celluloid and burns herself indelibly into our collective consciousness. In fact, her presence so scorches that we are apt to miss the technical artistry of this film. Rudolph Maté's superlative cinematography uses banal objects pedagogically, to teach us to read the images: the blinds in Mundson's office make us aware of the fact we're looking, then show us how and where to look; the elaborate staging and framing of staircases make us wonder whether each character's fate is a...
2007-10-0838 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 39: Kiss Kiss Bang BangShane Black's 2005 KISS KISS BANG BANG is a film of delirious contradictions. It is part comedy, part tragedy, a bawdy pulp parody and a heartfelt hardboiled homage. The mix would be too eclectic if the film didn't constantly signal its awareness that it is doing something that should be impossible. Black's self-conscious screenplay uses the generic traits of hardboiled to examine the status of hardboiled stories and characters today, poking fun at itself all the while. In this vein, it could be likened to BRICK and THE ICE HARVEST, which similarly find comi-tragic inspiration in a literary tradition while largely...
2007-09-0135 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 38: I Wake Up ScreamingI Wake Up Screaming was produced concurrently with The Maltese Falcon and released shortly after, and thus stands as one of the earliest examples of noir. The Maltese Falcon is the more uniform achievement, successfully coupling a consistent noir visual style with noir themes of disillusionment. But for these very reasons I Wake Up Screaming may be the more important film to scholars of noir. It vacillates between a 1930's-style love story and a war-era tale of existentialist dread, between traditional light-saturated, protagonist-centered staging and elaborate off-kilter compositions bathed in darkness. It is a Janus film, and it is debatable...
2007-08-0338 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 37: Body HeatWith its throwback hardboiled script and careful restaging of iconic noir shots, Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 BODY HEAT is a noteworthy neo-noir. However, it is no mere nostalgia piece, but rather a daring updating of the tradition: Kathleen Turner's sizzling portrayal of a femme fatale inspired such diverse 1980's and 1990's classics as FATAL ATTRACTION and BASIC INSTINCT, and Kasdan's intricate plotting may even have served as the model for THE USUAL SUSPECTS. On all these points Clute and Edwards agree, but disagree on whether the 1980's were a decade capable of producing true noir--with its nuanced blend of existentialism and fatalism--or...
2007-07-0634 minBehind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers RevealedEpisode 12: PJ Parrish RevealedP.J. Parrish is the penname under which sisters Kristy Montee and Kelly Nichols work their magic. Together they have written seven Louis Kincaid mysteries, and garnered the same number of major literary award nominations. On June 15 they join Clute and Edwards to discuss their latest release A THOUSAND BONES, which focuses on the dark past of Kincaid's lover--female Homicide detective Joe Frye. While the novel is a superlative work of suspense, most notably in its taut pacing and creation of a truly terrifying villain, it is also a poignant character study and the story of a place--as reminiscent of...
2007-06-1641 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 36: His Kind of Woman"His Kind Of Woman" makes viewers aware of what they expect from noir by disappointing their expectations. The film moves quickly from the down and out digs of gambler Dan Milner (Mitchum) to a sunbathed beachside resort in Mexico. There, it takes its time setting up a complicated intrigue involving a large ensemble cast. It introduces the sultry Lenore Brent (Russell) as a mysterious dame, only to domesticate her by the end of the film, and gives the character of Mark Cardigan (Price)--a B actor and slapstick hysteric--an inordinate amount of time to strut and fret his stuff. For...
2007-06-1335 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircast Special 2: Alternative Noir PublicationsThe "Noircast Special" podcasts allow Clute and Edwards to address topics of interest to listeners of "Out of the Past" and "Behind the Black Mask." This episode features interviews with the creators of three alternative noir publications: Tee Morris, founder of podiobooks (www.podiobooks.com) and author of the fantasy-hardboiled podiobook "Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword;" Kevin Burton Smith, creator of the superlative "Thrilling Detective" website and ezine (www.thrillingdetective.com); and Seth Harwood, author of the podiobook "Jack Wakes Up" starring movie-star one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict Jack Palms.
2007-05-1856 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 35: Pickup on South StreetSam Fuller's 1953 "Pickup on South Street" leaves open important questions that Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront" will feel compelled to answer, and Fuller's film has a more timeless quality as a result. With artful minimalism, Fuller captures the claustrophobic paranoia of the HUAC era. He uses alternating points of view, pitting each character's vision of America against another's, to create narrative tension and an ambiguous moral. The film is a fork-tongued parable--a warning to all in power to be vigilant, but equally to all citizens to beware the "patriotic eyewash" that allows those with power to misuse it in times...
2007-05-1136 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 34: The Strange Love of Martha IversVan Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas and Lizabeth Scott all turn in stellar performances in this 1946 gem. For much of its running time the film lacks many of the visual hallmarks of the noir style, but Robert Rossen's pitch-perfect script, delivered with such subtlety by the fine cast, builds a dark backstory that makes what might have been a standard melodrama into a noir masterpiece: the drama of a few individuals is transformed into a parable of post-war America. Add Edith Head's gorgeous costumes and Miklos Rozsa's superlative score, and you have one of the most enjoyable films ever made...
2007-04-0135 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 33: HollywoodlandRecently, several Hollywood films, including HOLLYWOODLAND, have revisited traumatic events of the 1940's and 1950's. This new film cycle begs several questions--chief among them, why do the malaise and murder of the postwar years resonate with filmmakers today, and do these films share characteristics that allow us to speak of an emerging film style? Clute and Edwards maintain there are significant differences lurking behind the apparent similarities, and such differences call for more nuanced terminology than the blanket moniker "neo-noir." They propose the tripartite nomenclature of noir-style, neo-noir, and faux-noir, and argue that HOLLYWOODLAND is a superlative example of neo-noir...
2007-03-0243 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 32: Kiss Me DeadlyThe 1955 film "Kiss Me Deadly" makes telling changes to Mickey Spillane's 1952 source novel. What was a story of greed and social corruption becomes an allegory of Cold War hysteria. Plot and character cede the stage to emotion and character type. While earlier films noir portrayed the downfall of a flawed person whose bad decisions had far-reaching social consequences, "Kiss Me Deadly" instead pits simplified personages and storylines against an ecstatically elaborate camera vision and sound design. It is at once the boiling down and the blowing up of noir--executed with a degree of camp only the mid-1950's could muster--and...
2007-02-0240 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircast Special 1: Kill Me Like You Mean ItThe "Noircast Special" allows Clute and Edwards to address topics of interest to listeners of "Out Of The Past" and "Behind The Black Mask." This inaugural episode features a roundtable discussion with the director, playwright, and lead actors of The Stolen Chair Theatre Company's off-Broadway play "Kill Me Like You Mean It." Inspired by film noir and the theatre of the absurd, the play is an artful mash-up that demonstrates how dark is the heart of absurdist theatre, and how absurd are the conventions of noir. This podcast--part interview, part radio drama--should please fans of film noir and mystery fiction...
2007-01-2640 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 31: Touch of EvilOrson Welles's 1958 "Touch of Evil" is considered the last film noir of the classic period. Clute and Edwards investigate why it deserves this designation, arguing that it uses the conventions of noir in such a self-conscious manner that henceforth it will be impossible to tell a straight noir tale. Indeed the film is so self-conscious that it is no more a narrative than it is a demonstration of how to create film narrative. It is considered a great film for this reason, but also because it features myriad strong acting turns, stages Welles's dramatic demise as a Hollywood player, and...
2007-01-0233 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 30: The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Man Who Wasn't ThereIn this double-feature podcast, Clute and Edwards investigate Tay Garnett's 1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and the Coen brothers' 2001 "The Man Who Wasn't There"--considering their merits as films, and as adaptations of the novels of James M. Cain. While Garnett makes noir acceptable mainstream fare, with high production quality and glamorous stars like Lana Turner and John Garfield, his film loses the hauntingly arid psychology of Cain's novel. Conversely, the Coens decide not to adapt any one Cain story, but opt instead to recapture the tone of Cain's work; and Cain's heartache seen through the Coens' lens is the...
2006-12-021h 14Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 29: DetourEdgar G. Ulmer's 1945 film "Detour" is commonly lauded as a B-noir that overcame production limitations with artful minimalism. In this context, instances of obtrusive lighting and camerawork are viewed as minor blemishes--the best quality that could be expected from a poverty row feature. Clute and Edwards argue that the film should be granted a far greater measure of technical mastery, that the so-called flubs purposefully call attention to the very cinematic means used to construct the narrative.In this optic, the film is not good despite its "flubs" but great because of them; they render it a self-conscious noir meta-narrative--a...
2006-11-0141 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 28: The Black DahliaIn the murder of Elizabeth Short, novelist James Ellroy found a means to grieve over the rape and murder of his own mother. In the novel THE BLACK DAHLIA Betty is at once a symbol of the post-war era torn apart by its passions, and a symbol of Bucky Bleichert's/James Ellroy's search for meaning. Likewise, but dissimilarly, Betty serves a double function in De Palma's film. She seems to be an embodiment of cinematic history split between classic and post-modern eras, and of De Palma's search to assemble the perfect visual experience from pieces of his own filmic corpus...
2006-10-0231 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 27: D.O.A.Did noir die in 1950? As a filmic style, certainly not; many of the most daring visual and narrative experiments of the classic period date from 1951-1958. However, 1950 seems to mark a dramatic transition in what might be called noir philosophy. The strong men of the post-war years, who were victims only of their own errors in judgment, cede the screen to indeterminate men, who fall victim to forces they never grasp. This transition infuses the noir universe with a crueler sense of irony but also frees directors from certain conventions, thereby ushering in a quirkier and more self-conscious era in...
2006-09-0234 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 26: Murder, My SweetDick Powell was cast as Philip Marlowe in the 1945 film "Murder, My Sweet." Was it a stroke of genius to allow a song and dance man to reinvent himself in this role, or the desecration of a literary icon? Clute and Edwards are deeply divided on this issue, but find many topics on which they agree: whether the viewer considers Powell's performance a triumph or a tragedy, it is evident that the tension between the two strong female leads (Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley) is a fundamental driving force of the film; with numerous deft touches director Edward Dymytrk pulls the...
2006-06-3031 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 25: He Walked By NightThis film deserves its reputation as an important early police procedural and precursor to the television series "Dragnet," but does not deserve to be viewed reductively--as only that. Anthony Mann's un-credited direction was among his best. He coaxed strong performances out of actors given few lines, and made every shot count. Cinematographer John Alton brought the darker sides of Los Angeles to life, and Alfred DeGaetano made brilliant editing choices to overcome limited sets, a bare-bones script, and the lack of big-name stars. Their combined efforts produced an oft-imitated 79-minute B-masterpiece, and demonstrated how much talent was to be found i...
2006-06-1535 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 24: ChinatownRobert Towne's screenplay for the 1974 film "Chinatown" tells an original story, but a story whose scope, intrigue, characters, pacing, and style owe a great debt to the work of Raymond Chandler. That said, it would be a mistake to view "Chinatown" as a simple nostalgia piece. In this tale of the fundamental--indeed foundational--corruption of Los Angeles, Director Roman Polanski, Writer Towne, and Cinematographer John Alonzo tell a hard-boiled tale in a modern filmic style, and this productive collision allows them to simultaneously critique and reaffirm the mythic qualities of genre literature and film. This podcast is brought to you by...
2006-06-0134 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 23: On the WaterfrontElia Kazan might have broken the Hollywood Blacklist. Instead, when HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) asked him to name names, he sang like a canary. His actions ended many careers, and broke the spirit of many Hollywood players. Kazan never apologized; indeed, his career and life from that moment staged a defense of his decision. "On the Waterfront"--which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director for Kazan, Best Actor for Brando, and Best Actress for Eva Marie Saint--was his most elaborate, and perhaps eloquent, staging of what he felt to be the righteousness of his actions. The script and...
2006-05-1536 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 22: Good Night, and Good LuckAs America intoned the mantra "Communism," fear became its religion and McCarthy its high priest. George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" investigates Edward R. Murrow's brave act of voicing dissent, at a time when dissent was seen as un-American. The film shows an America living in fear of Communism in the 1950's that is very much like an America living in fear of Terrorism today, and demonstrates why the media--then and now--rarely question controversial pundits and their pronouncements. The media are dependent on advertising revenue; advertisers want to reach the largest possible audience; audiences want to be entertained, not...
2006-05-0133 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 21: Sunset Blvd.The most famous texts of any canon are rarely the most typical; rather, they push the limits. The fame of Billy Wilder's 1950 masterwork "Sunset Boulevard" is of this problematic sort. The film plays on all the usual themes of noir: mysterious deaths; a male protagonist doomed by a single bad decision; a femme fatale who twists his hopes to resemble her own, and slowly trims away his universe until she is the sole star guiding his fateful journey. But these themes are absurdly exaggerated. The first death is of a pet monkey. The narrator is telling his story from beyond...
2006-04-1530 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 20: Reservoir DogsKubrick's "The Killing" weaves the narrative threads of each character's story into the complex yarn of a heist. Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" ties references to numerous films into a dense knot. The pleasure of watching, and difficulty of discussing, Tarantino's work arises from having to pick at, and follow, seemingly infinite threads to their points of origin. Text is henceforth hypertext. As Clute and Edwards follow the many links from Tarantino back to Kubrick, they investigate what's at stake when the canvas of noir is stretched to drape a corpus like Tarantino's. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and...
2006-04-0136 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 19: The KillingStanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino both launched their careers by updating the noir tradition. In the first episode of a two-part comparative analysis, Clute and Edwards demonstrate how Kubrick's "The Killing" (1956) and Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) come more clearly into focus when each is viewed through the lens of the other. "The Killing" might be considered a masterwork on its own merits. Kubrick's careful composition of every shot demonstrates his deep sympathy for noir tradition, but he adds much that is new: a non-linear narrative more fractured than any previously attempted; an omniscient voice-over and inventive sound design to guide the...
2006-03-1535 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 18: The Set-UpAs crisp and fluid as a boxer's footwork, Robert Wise's editing turns a lightweight script into the heavy-hitting drama "The Set Up." Art Cohn's screenplay is a very Hollywood adaptation of a 1928 poem by Joseph Moncure March. The poem is a shot to the gut--a powerful meditation on race that shows a black American is never in for a fair fight. The 1949 screenplay is the flyweight story of a down and out white fighter who thinks he's one punch away from glory. But Robert Wise and Robert Ryan prove that any story, when told masterfully, can pack a punch. The...
2006-03-0130 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 17: Gun CrazyWhat good is it to be a sharpshooter when there's no war on? If you want to understand the sense of impotence and angst that defined the postwar generation, "Gun Crazy" is a case study. With a deft and almost whimsical touch, Joseph Lewis sketches a country in transition--uncertain whether to gratify its thirst for heroism or its hunger for things, big things, lots of things. The film also signals a dramatic transition in filmmaking. In a giant stride, it seems to have one foot in the silent film era (think Murnau's "Sunrise") and the other in the New Wave...
2006-02-1542 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 16: The GriftersThis is perhaps the most noir of all neo-noirs. Never has 1990 Los Angeles looked and sounded so much like 1950 Los Angeles. While Stephen Frears sets Jim Thompson's source novel at the time the film is made, he carefully trims away modern LA. The film moves between the Bryson Apartments, the racetrack, and scenes on a train. Gone are the glitter and glitz of modern downtown and its skyscrapers. In their place are the greed and grift that have always been the motor driving the City of Angels--forces so strong they tear families to shreds and answer prayers with death. This...
2006-02-0129 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 15: The Lady From ShanghaiEvery Orson Welles film demonstrates the great director's ability to work with and against filmic tradition. "The Lady from Shanghai" is a compendium of noir conventions: it tells a tale of post-war greed, of Americans willing to tear each other asunder for a dollar; it is the story of an irresistible dame and the smart guy who becomes a chump the second he lays eyes on her; it uses A-stars against type so as to bring out their blemishes and inner demons (even daring to cut and dye Hayworth's famous hair!). It is thus a classic noir tale, but it...
2006-01-1538 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 14: NotoriousThe question of whether Hitchcock is a noir director remains open. What is certain is that by 1946 noir aesthetics began to inflect every genre from the Holiday picture ("It's a Wonderful Life") to the espionage/thriller film. Like "The Third Man," "Notorious" is best described as the latter, for its political and geographical scope exceed what is typical of noir, and justice is defined and done in unambiguous terms. Nevertheless, at crucial moments a noir camera vision is manifest. More importantly, Hitchcock has his stars play their darkest roles: Bergman is the alcoholic tramp daughter of a convicted Nazi; Grant...
2006-01-0136 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 13: It's a Wonderful LifeWith "It's A Wonderful Life" Capra launched his independent studio, Liberty Films. He thought he had a guaranteed box office winner, with stars Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, and the power-to-the-people message that had made his pre-war films such successes. He was wrong. Capra never seemed to realize what a dark film he had made, nor understand that his populist message no longer resonated. This film would not acheive great success until decades later, when the divorce generation would (mis)read it as a tale of the redemptive virtues of the nuclear family. Richard and Shannon read it as a...
2005-12-1539 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 12: RififiHollywood began tearing itself apart with accusations of Communism in 1947, and in 1949 American director Jules Dassin was blacklisted. In order to pursue his craft he fled to France, where he cobbled together a small budget and a motley crew of B stars. Together they created the heist masterpiece Rififi, the tale of a ragtag international band of thieves who use inferior tools and superior know-how to pull off the job of a lifetime. They are in the clear until somebody rats and then one by one they are hunted down. The real crime is that Dassin had to fashion this...
2005-12-0146 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 11: The Big Sleep and The Big LebowskiWhen "The Big Lebowski" was released in 1998, Ethan and Joel Coen claimed its "episodic" narrative structure found its source in the work of Raymond Chandler. In this super-sized double-feature podcast, Richard and Shannon examine "The Big Lebowski" against Howard Hawks's 1946 noir "The Big Sleep," and both films against Chandler's 1939 novel "The Big Sleep." Beyond their similar narrative structures, these works all present consummate dialogue, a panoply of memorable characters, and crimes and anxieties impossible to imagine outside Los Angeles--the city of angels, and noir. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards of www.noircast.net. To leave...
2005-11-151h 20Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 10: The KillersWhile Robert Siodmak's noir triumph "Ernest Hemingway's 'The Killers'" flaunts its literary bloodlines, Hemingway's 1927 short story is little more than a pretext. The film actually investigates the fundamental post-WWII question: in a world where every man bears scars from the fight, how and why does he keep fighting? Siodmak's answer seems to be the very one given by Albert Camus in his famous essay "The Myth of Sisyphus." At the moment a man accepts the burden of his existence, bends to shoulder the stone of his being, he is greater than his destiny. Siodmak adds a caveat: if a man...
2005-11-0131 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 9: LauraOtto Preminger's 1944 "Laura" marks an important transition in film history. Visually it harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era, flooding with light elaborate sets and the glamorous stars they hold--but at crucial moments a noir vision bubbles up to artfully blemish this smooth facade. It is a classic love story--except that it hinges on forbidden fantasy and murder. It at once gives a coy nod to the parlor psychology of the "Thin Man" variety of mystery, and looks forward to the dark Hitchcockian psychological thriller. It is a Janus of a film, and it may be eternally debated whether its double...
2005-10-1430 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 8: The Asphalt JungleShannon and Richard argue that John Huston's directorial evolution from "The Maltese Falcon" to the prototype heist film "The Asphalt Jungle" provides a blueprint of the evolution of film noir from the early 40's to the early 50's. With "The Asphalt Jungle" noir enters an even darker phase in it's history: an ensemble of tragic criminals (all brilliantly cast) displaces the strong leading man; the certainty of contained criminality cedes to the anxiety of widespread malfeasance; the city is a wasteland of corruption; time is an inexorable force that marches characters toward their doom. It is a vision so dark...
2005-10-0129 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 7: The Hitch-HikerOne of the only female directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, no one could coax more from actors or tell a story with greater economy than Ida Lupino. Her 1953 gem the Hitch-Hiker hooks you with the opening still and leaves you breathless and running scared for seventy perfectly polished minutes. Lupino rubs the sheen off violence to create a quasi-documentary vision of criminality striking at random the most remote corners of society. A profoundly unsettling film, it works above all on the male psyche, blowing wide open the post-war crisis of masculinity in a culture "up to its neck in IOU's."...
2005-09-1529 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 6: Blade RunnerOut of the past and straight into the future, Ridley Scott blends film noir and science fiction in "Blade Runner." Richard and Shannon query this unusual mix, and ask how a style that is often as outlandishly unrealistic as noir could be used to make science fiction feel more grounded and approachable. They consider why, aside from strong performances by Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Daryl Hannah, this film achieved such renown, and came to be considered the epitome of neo-noir. Like the DNA of the humanoid Replicants in the movie, the filmic code Scott created in "Blade Runner" has...
2005-09-0124 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 5: The Maltese FalconThis episode examines the classic "The Maltese Falcon." Based on a book by Dashiell Hammett, starring Humphrey Bogart, directed by John Huston, it is generally considered the first "film noir." As Richard and Shannon examine this landmark film, they discuss film noir's debt to hard-boiled fiction, Huston's inventive camerawork as the beginning of a visual style, and Bogart's portrayal as the prototype for noir tough guys. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards of www.noircast.net. To leave a comment on this episode, or make a donation to the podcast, please visit "Out of the Past...
2005-08-1531 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 4: The Third ManAs they discuss "The Third Man," starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, Shannon and Richard debate whether film noir is a "style" or a "genre." As a style many of its visual features can be adapted to other genres (war films, westerns). If it is a genre such adaptations are problematic, for "noir" has recognizable themes. Richard and Shannon have a lively debate over these definitions, and the question, "is 'The Third Man' a film noir?" Their different answers lead to very different assessments of the film. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards of www.noircast...
2005-08-0128 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 3: Batman BeginsEpisode three of this podcast series investigates Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "Batman Begins" in relation to the visual and narrative conventions of film noir. Richard and Shannon ask what it means to dub a modern film "noir," as many reviews of "Batman Begins" have done. They discuss the complexity of Christian Bale's Batman, and how it seems to draw on sources as diverse as hard-boiled fiction and Frank Miller's graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns." Likewise, they discuss the visual style of "Batman Begins" in relation to such films as Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," and Tim Burton's "Batman...
2005-07-1529 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 2: Double IndemnityIn this podcast, Clute and Edwards investigate Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic "Double Indemnity." They place the film in its historic context and query its unusual success; it was nominated for seven Academy Awards in a year when feel-good films like "Going My Way" were the rule. They conclude that while Wilder's direction is a masterpiece of subtlety, the film owes its enduring legacy to two factors: the strong acting of Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson and Fred MacMurray; the unsurpassed script by Billy Wilder, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler. This podcast is brought to you by Clute and Edwards...
2005-07-0928 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirEpisode 1: Out of the PastIn this premier episode, Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards discuss Jacques Tourneur's noir masterpiece "Out of the Past." They explain why it is the first film they choose for their continuing series of podcasts delving into the history of film noir. In the course of a lively discussion of this film, Clute and Edwards argue that while "Out of the Past" is not an early noir, it is nonetheless a prototype that helps the viewer define just what is film noir. As of July 15th, new episodes will be available for downloading on the 1st and 15th of each month...
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Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircast Special 4: Q and A with Shannon Clute and Jared CaseOn January 20, 2011 Clute introduced the film Mildred Pierce at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, as part of their Noir Series. His talk was preceded by a question and answer session with Jared Case (Head of Cataloguing and Research Center) on several noir topics: the origins of the Out of the Past podcast series; certain underappreciated aspects of noir; how scholarly approaches to noir have limited what we see; a new film studies paradigm he and Richard Edwards worked out in their forthcoming book The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, which allows them...
2005-01-0158 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day OneDay One: Opening Night. Noircon 2008 opens at the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia, PA. Clute and Edwards kick off this special podcast mini-series coverage with short interviews from the opening night reception. They talk with film critic Irv Slifkin, authors Gary Phillips, Seth Harwood, Ken Bruen, “The Czar of Noir? Eddie Muller, publisher Dennis McMillan, conference organizer Lou Boxer, and author Duane Swierczynski. We finish with an interview of the first presenter of Noircon, Professor David Schmid, who gave a talk entitled “Noir and Its Heretics.?
2004-01-0121 min
Out of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircast Special 5: L.A. Noire The Collected Stories: A Conversation with Jonathan SantloferClute and Edwards are joined by L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories editor Jonathan Santlofer, a hard-boiled writer and artist extraordinaire. Santlofer discusses the particular challenges and rewards of bringing together a short story collection for a video game production company from tight deadlines to restrictions on spoilers and the need for publishers of all media to put story first in this brave new era when the medium and the target audience grow ever harder to define. A fascinating conversation for all fans of videogames, hard-boiled fiction and things noir. For more noir podcasts and projects, visit Noircast.net...
2004-01-0129 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 3: Cybernoir PanelShannon Clute, Seth Harwood, and Richard Edwards presented this Cybernoir panel on April 5th, 2008, as part of the Noircon Conference in Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards kick things off with a discussion of how noir style and pulp publishing models seem to provide the fundamental structuring logics of emerging digital media—from blogs to podcasts, mashups to video games. Seth Harwood then relates his own experience of podcasting his first novel, JACK WAKES UP—from producing the initial audio, to embracing various new media in order to cultivate an audience and tap their enthusiasm and skills to promote his work. Fina...
2004-01-0141 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 3: Wise Guys and Femmes FataleWise guys and femmes fatale form the central focus of these next panel discussions from Noircon 2008. In the first half of the podcast, Clute and Edwards talk with authors George Anastasia and Anthony Bruno. Anastasia and Bruno are two seasoned mob-watchers who uncover life on the mean streets-Philly style. Based on their Noircon panel, Wise Guy Noir, they give us an inside look into the Godfathers and Goodfellas of Philadelphia. In the second half, Clute and Edwards lead a lively roundtable discussion on the femme fatale with four authors who have strong female characters at the center of their...
2004-01-0145 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: Editors and Publishers Tackle NoirClute and Edwards discuss the editing and publishing of noir fiction with three members of this Day 2 Noircon panel: Charles Ardai, Stacia Decker, and Michael Langnas. Charles Ardai is the editor and publisher of the Hard Case Crime series. Stacia Decker is an editor who has worked with such writers as Ray Banks, Declan Burke, Allan Guthrie and John McFetridge. Michael Langnas is the editor-in-chief of Murdaland Magazine, a crime-fiction journal put out by Baltimore-based publisher Cortwright McMeel. The three guests offer us a behind-the-scenes look into the world of noir publishing. The panelists address violence in noir fiction...
2004-01-0117 minOut of the Past: Investigating Film NoirNoircon 2008: The Official Podcast Day 2: George Lippard and Philly NoirPhiladelphia noir is the focus of two panels at Noircon 2008. The first panel presents the historical moment, cultural milieu and writings of the 19th century Philly writer George Lippard. Ed Petit and Robert Polito make a compelling case to consider Lippard an important proto-noir author, an author whose writings look back towards 1798's gothic novel WIELAND and forward towards 20th century hardboiled. The second panel addresses the issue of Philly noir through a discussion among noir and crime writers currently living and working in Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards talk more with Philly authors William Lashner and Jon McGoran (D...
2004-01-0142 min