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
GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 5A: Audiences, Part 1: Alternatives to “Perfect Days”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
In this multi-part series, we’ve focused on just one movie to explore a key idea in film studies. But this one choice means we’ve left out multitudes. Here is the larger set of also-rans we wrestled with before finally choosing “Perfect Days”.
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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A:
- “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
- “Dolemite” (D’Urville Martin, 1975)
- “Blacula” (William Crain, 1972)
- “Cecil B. Demented” (John Waters, 2000)
- “Mo’ Better Blues” (Spike Lee, 1990)
- “Another Gay Movie” (Todd Stephens, 2006)
- “Cleopatra Jones” (Jack Starrett, 1973)
- “Border” (Ali Abbasi, 2018)
Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A:
- “Vintage Movie Projector | Sound Effect | Feel The Past Film Industry” by n Beats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUICp5XeJ4
- “Film Clapperboard Green Screen Effect With Sound” by Jacob Anderson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1sEiCa-yic
- “Slide projector changing with clicks” by (Soundsnap), https://www.soundsnap.com/tags/slide_projector?page=2