Podcast Episodes

1914 E3 - Elyse Singer

Elyse Singer, Lecturer in the Department of Theater at Dartmouth College, selects a wide range of forms and genres for her five picks of 1914, from s…

3 hours ago

1914 E2 - Susan Potter

Season 16 Episode 2

Susan Potter, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney, wrote the book Queer Timing: The Emergence…

1 week ago

1914 E1 - The Great War Begins

Season 16 Episode 1

The event that has been foreshadowed the past few seasons comes to pass in 1914: the Great War, or World War I. And while not every facet of the conv…

2 weeks ago

1913 E7 - Yes, a Milestone Year

Season 15 Episode 7

The 1913 season introduction episode’s title was “A Milestone Year?” And indeed, the guests for these past five episodes, as well as the representati…

3 weeks ago

1913 E6 - Charlie Keil

Season 15 Episode 6

Charlie Keil, Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute and the Department of History at the University of Toronto, is the author of Early American C…

4 weeks ago

1913 E5 - Paul Gagliardi

Season 15 Episode 5

Paul Gagliardi, Teaching Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, selects almost entirely comedy shorts for his 1913 highlights, altho…

1 month ago

1913 E4 - Michael Gebert

Season 15 Episode 4

Michael Gebert is the founder and co-moderator of NitrateVille, the online discussion site about vintage films of the silent era through the 1950s. L…

1 month, 1 week ago

1913 E3 - Julie K Allen

Season 15 Episode 3

Julie K. Allen, professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University, is the author of Screening Europe in Australasia. So it makes …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

1913 E2 - Shelley Stamp

Season 15 Episode 2

This is the 100th episode and just two weeks past the second anniversary of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever! It’s a special episode made even mor…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

1913 E1 - A Milestone Year?

Season 15 Episode 1

1913 is considered by many to be a milestone year in the development of film grammar and industry. And it perhaps is, as is set up by this context-se…

2 months ago