EARLY CINEMA — all episodes — Fantasy/Animation

Episode 59 - Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) (with Peter Adamson)

Episode 59 heralds Chris and Alex’s first foray into silent film comedy via the work of performer Buster Keaton, looking at his feature Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) that celebrates the dreams and psychology of a movie theatre projectionist. Joining them as the lights go down is Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Münich and King's College London, and host of the successful History of Philosophy without any gaps podcast that examines the “ideas, lives and historical context” of both major philosophers and more lesser-known figures.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantOctober 26, 2020COMEDY, SILENT CINEMA, EARLY CINEMA, REFLEXIVITY, STARDOM Comments

Episode 55 - Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011) (with Eric Smoodin)

Chris and Alex dust off their knowledge of early film history for Episode 55 as they examine Martin Scorsese’s adventure Hugo (2011), a playful mystery set in 1930s Paris that takes audiences through the special effects and spectacular stagecraft of pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès. Joining Chris and Alex amid the architecture of the Gare Montparnasse is Eric Smoodin, Professor of American Studies and Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, who has published monographs and edited collections on Walt Disney, Frank Capra and Hollywood film history, as well as a new book Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950 (Duke University Press, 2020) that sketches a picture of French film culture of the 1930s and 1940s.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantAugust 31, 2020FILM HISTORY, DIGITAL, VISUAL EFFECTS, EARLY CINEMA, TRICK FILMS, FANTASYComment