Special Report · Film year 2017
Who is Arthur Chu? (2017)
- Special Guests
- Scott Drucker, Yu Gu
- Guest Co-Host
- Rod Lott
Show notes
Rod Lott joins Mike to discuss the 2017 documentary Who Is Arthur Chu? The film is ostensibly about "Jeopardy" champion Arthur Chu but goes into larger discussions of race, gender, nerd culture, and more.
Mike speaks to filmmakers Yu Gu and Scott Drucker about the creation of and response to the film.
Mike speaks to filmmakers Yu Gu and Scott Drucker about the creation of and response to the film.
Labels: Alex Trebek Arthur Chu Documentary Ken Jennings Rod Lott Scott Drucker Yu Gu
Watch
Music credits
- "Think!" - Merve Griffin
- "I Lost on Jeopardy" - Weird Al Yankovic
Links & resources
- Visit the official Who is Arthur Chu website (opens in a new tab)
- Follow Arthur Chu on Twitter (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official Arthur Chu website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the The Final Wager (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the J Archive (opens in a new tab)
- Read No Girls Allowed: The Lasting Rules of GamerGate and Toxic Misogyny by Sam Riedel (opens in a new tab)
- Read I’m not “that creepy guy from the Internet”: How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name by Arthur Chu (opens in a new tab)
- Follow Ken Jennings on Twitter (opens in a new tab)
- Read How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life by Jon Ronson (opens in a new tab)
- Listen to the Slanted Screen episode (opens in a new tab)
Related episodes
Episodes that share keywords with this one.
A Woman's Work - The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (2019)
Shared: Yu Gu, Documentary
Yu Gu, Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields, Maria Pinzone
Time Warped - The Greatest Cult Films of All Time (2020)
Shared: Rod Lott, Documentary
Paul Fishbein, Danny Wolf, Edwin Neal, Chris Stachiw and others
The Writer with No Hands (2017)
Shared: Rod Lott, Documentary
William Westaway, Matthew Alford, Rod Lott
Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015)
Shared: Rod Lott, Documentary
Marty Langford, Carl Ciarfalio, Chris Gore, Rod Lott and others
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)
Shared: Rod Lott, Documentary
Tim Skousen, Jeremy Coon, Rod Lott
Comments
No comments yet.