No MWC for July because I am moving to scenic Gainesville, Florida at the end of the month, and leading workshops for teens during most of the rest of the month. If you want to do a MWC when we come back for the fall, definitely get in touch and we definitely will! 💖🚀💯
What does a horror movie series from the aughts have to say about dealing with the inevitability of death…. and teens? Can death itself shoot you with a gun? What makes a horror movie funny? Jacob deNobel returns to the MWC to discuss all that, and some ‘relatability’, too.
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MWC takes another trip to Nostalgia City with the premier card collecting anime of your youth! Shel discusses Clamp tropes, romantic destiny as queer fatalism, the magical girl as a trans experience, and, of course, how the original version is superior to the American rebroadcast. Episodes Shel selected for thematic resonances for this discussion: 1-3, 14, 25, 39, 48, 51, 59, 61, 65, 66
Shel’s website is here,
you can listen on podmatic here, or download via itunes, or play the embedded episode here on tumblr!
From caricature of Kant to their present, well, omnipresence, the Moomins are an exemplar of unsaccharine familial love. This MWC covers all things Moominvalley, including Grace’s deft takes on children’s agency, Tove Janssons’ love life, FST’s lingering Snufkin-
related attachment issues, #FullMoominCommunism, and how winter is a mistake no matter where you are.
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What do you do with a synthpop album that doesn’t get gender quite right? How do you determine if an artist ‘communicated’ clearly, poorly, or not at all? Thomas articulates a creator-focussed metric for trying to understand ambitious work, and FST proposes that everything is a text, including people.
Thomas’s website is here. You can listen on podomatic here, or listen to the podcast on iTunes!
Hi Y'all, MWC is back for another year after a very restful January. Season 2 starts with more of a Babadook vibe. Mary Houston, of Masters and Movies, “where social worker meets film critic”, and I talk about mental illness and parenting in movies, and most especially in everybody’s favorite movie about a bad man with a tophat.
You can read Mary’s blog at mastersandmovies.com, and you can listen to the episode on Podomatic here
hey y'all, here’s the last episode for 2016! It’s about that show you watch. What’s the deal with parenting? What’s the deal with Connecticut? What’s the deal with infantilizing women as a romantic gesture in media, specifically in media which otherwise sells itself as empowering to women? Charlie takes me, and you, on a guided tour through the awful world of Star’s Hollow, via a very personal account of how they grew up watching Connecticut’s Worst Women. Listen on podomatic here!
Coming into the home stretch here at MWC. Listen on podomatic here!
Anemone, Gina, and Aurora joined me to talk about a melancholy, sparsely orchestrated western…. digimon movie? It’s true! Hear about how it’s kinda like the end of Evangelion (really) and other less memeable musings on childhood, liminality, what tropes a bunch of American kids associate with children’s anime, and more.It’s another manga episode! This time, we look at memory, mediocrity, misery, and massive robots in Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys. This comic is potentially fascinating as a document about a particular turn-of-the-century imagining of the past and the future in Japan, but we don’t know anything about that, so we talk about robots and being disappointed with capitalism.
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Paradise Kiss is a shojou manga about growing up, love, the patriarchy, fashion, disappointments, and, on occasion, disappointing fashion. Love and the patriarchy are always disappointing. This one is extra long, because 1. I could not stand to cut out Juliet’s anecdotes about her grandmother’s ‘sexy picture of Colin Firth’ and 2. I am infinitely fallible. Enjoy Juliet’s insights on women in comics! TWs for mentions of rape and transphobia, brief and not very specific in both cases.
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