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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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I love old movies — but I didn’t always! In fact, I needed many years of directed classwork to fall in love with them. But if you’re not in the mood to pause your life and take on significant graduate debt, THERE ARE STILL OPTIONS, and Margaret H. Willison and I are here to offer them. In this episode, we offer specific suggestions to listeners based on short lists of their (recent) film favs, talk about “aesthetic friction” and how to overcome it, strongly invite you to put your phone in the other room, and travel all over film history in a very earnest attempt to help you find your own entry point into the expansive mansion that is “old movies,” broadly defined.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Anne. Two things. First, we're preparing for some upcoming recordings and are still taking your questions on how cookbooks get made and cleaning culture. We're also working on an episode with Vanessa Zoltan about spiritual care for the non-religious. If you've never been religious or if you were once religious but now aren't, how do you think about spiritual care? What does that even mean? What are those words? What is the spirit? Why does it need care? Maybe you don't think about it. I don't know. We can go in any direction here. If any of these prompts sparks something for you, let us know in the Google forum at tiny URL.com slash culture |
0:39.3 | study pod. And as always, you can also use that form to give us your ideas for future episodes |
0:44.2 | and to submit questions for ask and anything. And second, today's episode is so fun. It's also |
0:51.1 | so long. And it took a lot of work. So we're paywalling a little bit more of it |
0:56.2 | than usual. If you want the full episode, which includes a lot more recommendations and a |
1:02.9 | AAA conversation about thriving in a low residency graduate program, also, all of the extensive |
1:09.7 | show notes in which Melody lists out every single movie |
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1:34.5 | This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson. |
1:38.2 | And I'm Margaret H. Willison. |
1:40.6 | I'm a writer and podcaster previously featured on this program to talk about celebrity outrage |
1:47.5 | and now logically back to talk about classic film. |
1:51.2 | Yeah, no, this is great. |
1:52.2 | You know, we have my friend Phil Macyak who is trying to become the David B. |
1:57.7 | and Kuli of Culture Study. |
1:59.5 | That's his goal. |
2:00.8 | So I feel like we can we can find, you can be like the Pauline Kale. |
2:04.5 | I love that. |
2:05.3 | Oh my God. |
2:07.2 | What an honor. |
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