The VoxPopcast — Page 4 of 29 — The Voice of the Peoples

Call for Comments: Romanced by Bridgerton?

From Hannah: When I was in high school, I first became fascinated with the nineteenth-century novel — Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield.* And listeners of the show (and anyone who has ever met me, probably) know that while I changed how and why I read these novels, I never stopped reading them. Or consuming contemporary entertainment set in the nineteenth century. If I continually return to a fictionalized Regency period for entertainment, and in particular, to feel a cozy kind of comfort, then I'm not alone. Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Alan Rickman's Jane Austen adaptations receive much praise and replay. (We dedicated an entire episode to why Austen continues to grow in popularity, after all.) And it isn't just Austen, historical genre writers from William...

e146. TV in the time of COVID-19

It's been weird doing a show based around pop culture for the last year. A lot of that weirdness, of course, is because pop culture largely stopped for a bit. Then, it came back staggered as people released what remaining content they had sort of haphazardly. Now we're getting to a new phase... we're seeing media produced INSIDE of the pandemic. What is TV in the time of COVID-19? On this week's episode, Hannah, Katya and Mav invite back Mary Rogers Bell to talk about the changes to TV shows in COVID-19 outbreak have faced. What does TV look like now? Is it better when the shows write the pandemic into them or is it better to leave it out? Should TV be a record of our current cultural moment...

Call for Comments: Why Do We ƒµ¢&ing Love Charts?

by Mav / January 20, 2021

From Mav: I love charts. I fucking love charts! Am I alone here? I'm a nerd, when I was a kid, I used to play with this computer program called Harvard Graphics, just for fun. All it did was make charts. Last week, working on the final chapter of my dissertation, I got to a point where I needed to explain the decline in marriage rate vs an increase in women in the workplace over the 20th century and I got excited because "OMG! I get to use a chart here!!!" Then, just yesterday, I was putting together the YouTube version of this week's VoxPopcast episode when my wife Stephanie walked by and says "wow! Is that an animated chart? Awesome!" (and it is... if you haven't watched the YouTube...

e145. 2021 Fantasy Box Office Draft

It's a new year and that means we get to do one of our most exciting shows. It's the fantasy box office draft! Every year we play a game (shamelessly stolen form the Protagonist Podcast… credit where credit is due) where we take turns predicting what will be the most successful movies in the next year. It's basically reviewing movies that no one knows anything about with no real information about them. Except this year it's a little different because a lot of the most anticipated films of 2021... were the most anticipated films of 2020. With COVID-19 still raging, that changes the whole strategy of the game. We're not sure how... but we're going to try to figure it out. On today's show Mav, Hannah, Katya and Wayne welcome...

e144. So, It’s Been a Week! (1/3/21 – 1/9/21)

We totally didn't want to talk politics this week. And we certainly didn't want to talk about the world being on fire. 2020 had enough of that. All we wanted to do this week was play our fun little box office game. Unfortunately, that went out the window the moment there was an attempted coup of the United States government. If you live on Earth, you've probably heard about the rioting and insurrection at the United States Capitol this week. If you listen to this show, then you've certainly got some serious opinions about it. Of course we do too! We couldn't see ourselves putting it off a week to talk about movies that won't be out for a while. Twitter kicked off the President! We predicted it! We can't...

Education Podcasts

e130. Freshman Year in Quarantine

by Mav, Wayne Wise, Sophie Hummel and Tristyn Thomas
October 5, 2020

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Way back at beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown — what seems like a million years ago — we did a special episode where we talked to Tristyn and Sophie, two…

Call for Comments: Pretty Creepy Sexy Baby – Sexualizing Infantilization

by Mav
September 29, 2020

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From Mav: A few weeks ago, we did a show called “twentysomethingteen” where we talked about the phenomenon of casting fully grown adults as teens in TV shows for practical…

Fashion Literature Movies and Film Podcasts Sex and Gender

e129. Corsets: Enhancement, Imprisonment, Empowerment, & Empresses

by Katya Gorecki, Hannah Lee Rogers, Laura Engel, Carolyn Day and Cheryl Spinner
September 28, 2020

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The corset might be one of the most fascinating garments in the history of fashion. On one hand, it’s simply underwear. It is a garment that provides a specific function.…

Comics Literature Movies and Film Podcasts Race and Class Sex and Gender Television

e128. 9 Popular Culture Pet Peeves We Hate and Why

by Mav, Wayne Wise, Katya Gorecki and Hannah Lee Rogers
September 21, 2020

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Pop Culture is a double edges sword. The more we love a certain type of media, the more of it we absorb. But the more we absorb, the more we…

Call For Comments Education

Call for Comments: Freshman Year in Quarantine

by Mav
September 17, 2020

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From Mav: Way back in April — so you know basically a million years ago in the COVID world —we did a show about what it was like to finish…

Games Podcasts Race and Class Sex and Gender

e127. Dungeons & Diversity

by Katya Gorecki, Wayne Wise, Michael Chemers and David Rambo
September 14, 2020

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In our contemporary moment pop culture is controlled by two forces. A focus on so-called “geek culture” and a push for more inclusive diversity across media forms. While there is…

Call For Comments Fashion Sex and Gender

Call for Comments: Corsets, Torture Device of the Patriarchy or Comfy Back Brace of Vintage Glamour?

by Katya Gorecki
September 9, 2020

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From Katya: Or, perhaps, a little of column A, a little of column B depending on historical context and use? I know you were all waiting with bated breath for…

Comics Literature Podcasts

e126. Reconstructing Deconstructed Superheroes

by Mav, Wayne Wise, Matthew Brake and A. David Lewis
September 7, 2020

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Ever since the mid 1980s and the publication of Watchmen comics, their creators, and their fans, have been obsessed with the idea of “deconstruction.” Director Zack Snyder is extremely fond…

Call For Comments Literature Movies and Film Television

Call for Comments: Pop Culture Pet Peeves

by Hannah Lee Rogers
September 1, 2020

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From Hannah: A long time ago in a reality that now seems far far away, we did an episode on Media Addiction that discussed hate consuming media. We thought through…

Culture Literature Movies and Film Podcasts Religion Violence

e125. It’s the End of the World as we show it…

by Mav, Wayne Wise, Katya Gorecki, Hannah Lee Rogers and Brian Bennett
August 31, 2020

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It’s 2020 and the world is ending… or maybe it’s not… or maybe it ended months ago and we just can’t tell anymore. Honestly at this point it’s pretty much…