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Inside Black Mirror (by Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Jason Arnopp) is a fun book on the making of Black Mirror, done in the style of an oral history. There's lots of background info on the episodes, their inspirations, actors talk about their characters, and there are photos and production design images.
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I hadn't heard of this show until their Halloween special was mentioned on a Ghostwatch blog that I follow, so "Dead Line" was my first episode. I really liked it, so now I want to go back and watch everything else.
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"Making Murder: The Fiction of Thomas Harris" by Philip L. Simpson. It's an overview of plot, characters, themes, symbolism, and allusion in all five of his currently published novels.
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The entirety of Josie and the Pussycats. Wall to wall constant exposure in almost every scene. It wasn't the usual product placement -- they didn't get paid and it was for satirical purposes -- but it still counts because we the audience were exposed to at least 73 different brands.
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Speculation for Season Three: A mash-up between the West Memphis Three and the Boys on the Tracks murders. Basing this off the latest trailer, which has a very strong 'Paradise Lost' vibe, and the idea that they'll want to mix it up a bit by adding drugs/guns/money and political corruption. There are a couple of good true crime books about these cases by award-winning reporter Mara Leverett.
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Here's an interesting BBC article on the use of mirror therapy to help people with phantom limb problems.
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20 hours ago, Mrs Shibbles said:
I was wondering why no one smelled Almonds with the cyanide gas, but I guess that’s too much for the writers to come up with.
Cyanide sometimes is described as having a “bitter almond” smell, but it does not always give off an odor, and not everyone can detect this odor. –CDC's Facts About Cyanide
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3 hours ago, festivus said:
That book is something I'd really be interested in reading but wow is it expensive.
I found it on sale on Amazon for $30, so it's worth checking back from time to time.
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This isn't exactly media in the usual sense, but I wanted to tell you guys that this book exists. It's called Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal: If Oscar Wilde Ate People by Geoff Klock. It's a scholarly tome applying Oscar Wilde's quote that "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all." to Bryan Fuller's tv series Hannibal. The book goes into great detail about Fuller's fanfic presentation of the Hannibal stories as beautiful evil / evil beauty (the aestheticism and evil), and then also about the homo-eroticism of the series (homosexuality and Hannibal). Although it's a dense academic read, I really enjoyed it. (reposting this from a Books thread because here someone might be interested)
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I'm just finishing Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal: If Oscar Wilde Ate People by Geoff Klock. It's a scholarly tome applying Oscar Wilde's quote that "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all." to Bryan Fuller's tv series Hannibal. The book goes into great detail about Fuller's fanfic presentation of the Hannibal stories as beautiful evil / evil beauty (the aestheticism and evil), and then also about the homo-eroticism of the series (homosexuality and Hannibal). It was on sale on Amazon for $30; I most certainly did not pay $90. Although it's a dense academic read, I really enjoyed it.
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An interesting historical note came to mind about "Cornerstore Caroline"; the 1950s white woman who lied about Emmett Till being sexually inappropriate with her (at the small grocery she owned with her husband) was named Carolyn. As a coincidence, that's pretty on the nose. If it was intentional, that's even better.
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When I went to see "First Man", there was a trailer for "The Girl in the Spider's Web". That was a bit startling, I admit. No one I was with recognized her.
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Just started Controversial Bodies: Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses, edited by John Lantos, MD. It's a collection of essays examining the "Body Worlds" exhibitions from various angles ethical, legal, cultural, religious, educational, and aesthetic. I saw it at a Half Price Books and it looks interesting.
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I'm a geek for critical analyses of pop culture and this is the one I'm reading now:
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Once I was doing some personal research on a former mortuary and I got to spend quality time looking at the original building plans via microfiche. It did feel like being in a movie and I look forward to coming up with another reason to dig into old media. Maybe I need to make a scrapbook filled with copies of morbid news clippings...
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I've been watching it via BBC iPlayer.
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I'm enjoying season 3 so far.
SpoilerAll the drama that's underway and now the Man in the Iron Mask as well? At least it's giving the Duc d'Orléans some plot of his own.
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I think it was this interview between William F. Buckley and Mark Lane on Buckley's show "The Firing Line".
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3 hours ago, JTM said:
I just want to quietly point out that there was no such thing as a Jewish collaborator in Nazi Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Kübler
We can argue that she wasn't necessarily a willing collaborator, but she did opt to become a "catcher" so that she and her parents could avoid deportation. There's a book about her by Peter Wyden called Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany. The link goes to a detailed book review.
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16 hours ago, starri said:
I have hoped for a podcast to cover the Wonderland Murders for a while now. I'm just not sure this is the podcast I wanted. I mean, it's fine, and I'll keep listening because I find the story to fascinating, but it's just missing...I'm not quite sure.
I tried to listen to that one, too, but then just gave up and watched the movie (Wonderland, not Boogie Nights). I think it's that I don't like the acting. I didn't mind it as much with the Black Dahlia episodes because it felt like a really messed-up old-timey radio show, but for Wonderland it just didn't work for me.
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The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley is set against the real Affair of the Poisons in the court of Louis XIV. A witty and clever young woman in late 1600s France becomes apprentice to a 'sorceress' and learns the literal tricks of their trade: aphrodisiacs (useless), midwifery (and abortion), inheritance powders (poison), and divination (gossip). Because courtly society at Versailles was such a hot-bed of intrigue and social manipulation, several noble woman (including the king's official mistress) turned to the sorcerers' guild to preserve or advance their positions, and that's when things got dangerous. The more fraught the situation, the more desperate the measures.
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That's a hard question, because I liked so many of them for different reasons. Sister Peter Marie, Father Mukada, and Said for the examinations of their faith. Keller and O'Reily because they were so horrible and yet still a bit charming. Augustus for being so... normal. Rebadow and Busmalis made a great couple. And then there's poor Alvarez...
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3 hours ago, BingeyKohan said:
Late in the game to be asking this, but who is this Sepinwall folks refer to? I can't believe I've left a stone unturned in my recap and analysis obsession.
Alan Sepinwall does reviews / analysis at Uproxx and has written several really good books about television.
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At least we still have a lot of stories remaining; we'll just envision James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams when we read them.
S04.E09: Death Do Us Part
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The Capgras Delusion is another neurological disorder that Dr V.S. Ramachandran (he invented the mirror treatment we saw in an earlier episode) discusses in his book "Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind". If you're at all interested in the mind and neuroscience, this is a great book. There was also an episode of the PBS series "Nova" about his work called Secrets of the Mind: this link goes to the PBS page because I wasn't sure if it was okay to link to the episodes on YouTube.
Book synopsis from Wikipedia: "Ramachandran discusses his work with patients exhibiting phantom limbs, the Capgras delusion, pseudobulbar affect and hemispatial neglect following stroke, and religious experiences associated with epileptic seizure, among other disorders. Ramachandran uses these cases to illustrate the construction of body image, and the functioning of mood, decision-making, self-deception, and artistic skill."