EP66 - It happens every year - someone wears a Halloween costume that's problematic, not thinking about the historical and cultural background of that costume. But let's talk about it, and why cultures aren't costumes.
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Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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For decades, romantic comedies have given audiences an incorrect idea of how romantic relationships should work. How you should ask someone out, woo them, and win them. But because of how romcoms depict love on screen, they show harmful behaviors like persistence, possessiveness, and stalking as grand gestures of love - all while normalizing them.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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It's another Halloween episode! This time we're going to focus on Candyman, a 1992 film that plays off a white, middle class audience's fear of "urban society": their fears urban housing projects and the residents living there, all fueled by underlying racism and anti-miscegenation.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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It's Halloween season so let's talk about something spooky, creepy, and disturbing, like how the 1973 horror film The Exorcist perfectly packaged anti-Arab sentiment, Islamophobia, and xenophobia to its audience.
You can find the full episode script here.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
New episodes released the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.
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It's the second Halloween episode! Let's talk about zombies - specifically from the 1932 film White Zombie.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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It's Halloween! And to celebrate there will be two episodes on monsters in pop culture and the -isms and -phobias that they represent. First up: Dracula.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
New episodes released the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.
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