Essays on Carrie: Part 2 “Gatekeeping the Past”

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Caitlin and Charlotte continue their multi-part series discussing essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia from “Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia,” edited by Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk. This episode covers the essay “Gatekeeping the Past: Fandom and the Gendered Cultural Memory of Star Wars” by Philipp Dominik Keidl. On the episode: More talk of commodification, “participatory historical culture,” cultural memory and fandom, traditional gatekeepers, Star Wars as “a boy’s thing,” the “fake geek girl” trope, personal reflections of our own fandom experience, and much more. Buy the essay anthology: https://amzn.to/3JhQFgK Skytalkers will be on the Podcast Stage on 5/27 at 3:30 PM at Celebration Anaheim 2022! https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers http://skytalkers.com http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod https://www.tiktok.com/@skytalkers http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher hello@skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:14.7	Hello, and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:17.8	Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. and welcome to the second part of our little mini series called
0:23.7	Essays on Carrie, where we are going through all of the essays in the anthology, our beloved
0:29.6	Rebel Queen, which was edited by Linda Mizjewski and Tanya D. Zook.
0:35.7	And we are here to talk about the second essay in this book, which is called Gatekeeping
0:41.5	the Past, Fandom and the Gendered Cultural Memory of Star Wars by Philip Dominic Keitel.
0:46.7	If you're new here, we're doing a miniature series that probably will be sporadic.
0:52.7	Of course, these two episodes are recording close together,
0:55.2	but this is a book that we got,
0:57.3	and it is filled with essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia,
1:00.9	like Caitlin mentioned, and it is great.
1:04.2	It's pretty much like an academic journal,
1:06.2	and they're essays that Caitlin and I wanted to incorporate it into an episode at some point, but honestly couldn't really figure out a way to do that seamlessly.
1:15.5	So we decided to just talk about it each essay as it goes.
1:20.4	And if you haven't read the essay, they're hard to get because they're in a book.
1:23.8	It's okay.
1:24.7	We're going to talk you through it and talk about the themes that come out of it.
1:29.2	And hopefully that is a rich episode in itself. And we're going to relate to it and talk about
1:34.8	our own experiences and things like that. Personally, this essay, gatekeeping the past,
1:39.4	fandom and the gendered cultural memory of Star Wars, when I read this a couple months ago,
1:43.7	when we got this
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