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Mike was a guest on a few other podcasts recently where he discussed A Matter of Life & Death on The Kulturecast, Opening Night on Dark Habits, and Flesh on Robert Bellissimo at the Movies.

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Episode 319: The Red Shoes (1948)

Guest Co-Hosts: Daniel Bird, Maitland McDonagh

Daniel Bird and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss the 1948 film from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes. The film centers on the tumultuous world of dance, namely ballet. We follow Julian Craster (Marius Goring) and Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) through triumphs and misfortunes.

A favorite of Martin Scorsese, the film is a triumph of melodrama and includes several breathtaking dance sequences, most notably an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes.

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Links:
Buy The Red Shoes on DVD
Buy A Life in Movies by Michael Powell
Buy Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker by Ian Christie (Editor)
Buy the books of Maitland McDonagh
Buy Tenebrae on Blu-Ray
Read an interview with Daniel Bird by Samm Deighan

Music:
"Red Shoes" - Tom Waits
"The Red Shoes" - Kate Bush

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Episode 96: Peeping Tom (1960)

Special Guests: Laura Mulvey, Adam Lowenstein

Michael Powell's landmark serial killer film, Peeping Tom, is an exercise in terror and voyeurism. Rob and Mike talk about scopophilia, the role of the viewer in cinema, and "the children of Mark Lewis."

Guest Laura Mulvey wrote the seminal essay in Feminist Film Theory, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Guest Adam Lowenstein is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, as well as Director of the Film Studies Program, at the University of Pittsburgh.

Links:
Read Reasessing the Critical Response to PEEPING TOM (1960) by Kimberly Lindbergs
Buy Adam Lowenstein's Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film
Read Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (PDF)
Buy Laura Mulvey's Citizen Kane
Buy Laura Mulvey's Fetishism and Curiosity

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