Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
“She Done Him Wrong” (1933), a conversation
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa glory in Mae West as the avatar of Pre-Code Hollywood
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Referenced media:
- “Looney Tunes” (Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, and Rudolf Ising, 1930-now)
- “Angels with Dirty Face” (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
- “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
- “Call Her Savage” (John Francis Dillon, 1932)
- “Safe in Hell” (William A. Wellman, 1931)
- “Footlight Parade” (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
- “Scarface” (Howard Hawks, 1932)
- “Tarzan the Ape Man” (W.S. Van Dyke, 1932)
- “The Story of Temple Drake” (Stephen Roberts, 1933)
- “The Jazz Singer” (Alan Crosland, 1927)
- “King Kong” (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
- “Gabriel Over the White House” (Gregory La Cava, 1933)
Audio quotation:
- “She Done Him Wrong” (Lowell Sherman, 1933)