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The Projectionist's Lending Library
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Two literary scholars discuss great (and some not-great) books and their adaptations.
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03.02 WATCHMEN Part 2: Film and Television
May 19, 202401:25:52Tap to summarizeKline and Booth take on Zack Snyder's Watchmen and the HBO sequel to the book. We also digress, extensively, on superhero movies in general. Additional material: Alan Moore talks - 02 - Watchmen by Comics Brittania HBO's Watchmen: A Thermodynamic Disaster by Macabre Storytelling (video referenced by Booth in the episode)
Transcribe →03.01 Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and WATCHMEN: Part 1
Apr 28, 202401:38:26Tap to summarizeKline and Booth return for a season full of science fictional weirdness. In this, the first of two episodes on Watchmen, the two take an extended look at Allan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic de/reconstruction of superhero mythology. This is the first of two episodes. Next month will feature a discussion of the Zach Snyder movie adaptation of Watchmen and the HBO miniseries sequel. At one point in the episode, Booth refers to a certain YouTube video. This is that video. He will discuss it more in the next episode.
Transcribe →2.11 Chester Himes and COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
Feb 6, 202401:12:58Tap to summarizeErik and Nathanael are joined by special guest Will Murray to discuss Chester Himes' novel Cotton Comes to Harlem. Discussion includes the nature of reclamation and revolution and historical shifts in discussing racial issues. Please note that there are substantial audio issues with this episode. We do think that the conversation is well worth listening to.
Transcribe →02.10 James Joyce and "The Dead"
Dec 25, 202301:42:10Tap to summarizeIn this special holiday episode, Kline and Booth discuss James Joyce's short story "The Dead" from his 1914 collection DUBLINERS, as well as the 1987 adaptation, John Huston's last film, and starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McGann. As they parse out the complexities of Joyce's style and what makes the story so quintessentially modernist, they also examine how it fits into the holiday literary tradition in its framings of home, family, love, and human connection. Listen to Joyce himself read from his final novel FINNEGANS WAKE here.
Transcribe →02.09 Ellery Queen and TEN DAYS' WONDER
Nov 19, 202301:31:15Tap to summarizeBooth and Kline tackle Ellery Queen's Ten Commandments themed novel Ten Days' Wonder and the 1971 adaptation of it by Claude Chabrol. What do you do with a God who makes impossible demands and enacts disproportionate judgement? How should humans press forward in a world shattered by war? And how old, after all, is Ellery Queen? These questions and more are addressed in this episode. If you are interested in this conversation, check out Booth's book God and the Great Detective: Ellery Queen's Struggle with the Divine, 1945-1965, now out from McFarland.
Transcribe →02.08 Capote, IN COLD BLOOD, and the Biopics
Nov 5, 202301:37:20Tap to summarizePart 2 of 2. Booth and Kline discuss the movie adaptation(s) of In Cold Blood and the biopics covering its writing: Capote and Infamous. Topics covered include the ethics of adaptation, the use of source materials, and the way Capote's structure informs all subsequent adaptations. Join us for our most controversial episode yet! Will Kline and Booth agree on the relative merits of Capote and Infamous? There is, after all, only one way to find out....
Transcribe →02.07 Truman Capote and IN COLD BLOOD
Nov 5, 202301:23:27Tap to summarizeKline and Booth revisit Truman Capote in the first of a double-episode covering In Cold Blood and the movies inspired by it and by Capote's experience writing it. Episode 1 covers the book itself and its themes of masculinity and American violence. It also asks the question--is this book a great book or merely a good one?
Transcribe →02.06 Borges and "Death and the Compass"
Oct 7, 202301:38:54Tap to summarizeKline and Booth discuss Jorge Luis Borges' "Death and the Compass" and the 1992 film adaptation. But the discussion is itself a labyrinth, covering (among other topics) metaphysical detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Alan Moore, and Batman.
Transcribe →02.05 Dorothy B. Hughes and IN A LONELY PLACE
Aug 19, 202301:30:59Tap to summarizeErik and Nathanael are once again joined by Dr. Matthew Wells, who last appeared in "The Swimmer" episode of season one. This time, the three discuss Dorothy B. Hughes's 1947 thriller novel, IN A LONELY PLACE, and the 1950 film adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.
Transcribe →02.04 John Berendt and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
Jul 2, 202301:43:31Tap to summarizeBooth and Kline are joined by special guest Steph Parker to discuss John Berendt's 1994 book and the 1997 Clint Eastwood movie based on it. Note that Booth misidentifies a podcast he listened to featuring John Berendt. The podcast is Queer We Are and can be listened to here.
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