Special Report: Kendall R. Phillips on Kolchak: The Night Stalker

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Professor Kendall R. Phillips discusses his work, focusing on his latest book, Kolchak: The Night Stalker from Wayne State University's TV Milestones series. The book discusses the origins and impact of the short-lived TV series and its landmark TV movies.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The I'm I'm I'm
0:21.6	Oh
0:23.6	Oh Hey folks, welcome to a special crossover episode of the projection booth and the Colchak tapes.
0:51.8	Yes.
0:52.7	Adding one more log to the fire of Carl Colchak, we are talking about Colchack the Nightstocker,
0:59.8	a brand new book by Professor Kendall R. Phillips.
1:03.2	It is available now as part of Wayne State University's TV Milestone series.
1:09.3	Check out the series.
1:10.3	They've been doing a lot of great work. I have to recommend
1:12.5	a lot of the books that they've done, especially the Twin Peaks one. But this book about Colchak,
1:18.7	fantastic, as Professor Phillips says, it's a really good starter point for why people like Colchak.
1:25.8	So if you haven't experienced Colchak, if you're listening to the
1:29.3	Colchak tapes, I know you have. If you're listening to the projection booth, maybe you haven't.
1:34.5	But, you know, it was enough that Chris and I put together a whole long series talking all about
1:40.1	the Nightstocker. So enjoy that and enjoy this book and enjoy this interview. Can you
1:45.8	tell me a little bit about you, how you got into academia? I'm not even sure I remember anymore.
1:50.6	I've been a professor for an awful long time. I'm a professor of communication and rhetorical
1:55.4	studies at Syracuse University. I've been on the faculty here for 23 years, previously taught at the
2:02.6	University of Central Missouri for a few years. So it's been a little while. I am first-generation
2:07.6	college, so this is kind of a new thing for my family. I grew up in Texas. Studying communication
2:13.5	and culture was just a fascinating way of trying to understand how people sort of make sense of the world.
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