Lindsay Ellis

Season 2017

Lindsay Ellis dissects film and media topics.

Where to Watch Season 2017

10 Episodes

  • Planting and Payoff - Featuring Mad Max: Fury Road
    E1
    Planting and Payoff - Featuring Mad Max: Fury RoadSometimes in order to understand narrative, you need to start simple and state the obvious.
  • Are Disney Villains Going Extinct?
    E2
    Are Disney Villains Going Extinct?Disney Animation Studios has seen an uptick in quality and consistency in the last five years... as well as an uptick in red herrings and plot twists replacing the traditional villain narrative. Did the era of the Disney villain end a long time ago?
  • Is Beauty and the Beast About Stockholm Syndrome?
    E3
    Is Beauty and the Beast About Stockholm Syndrome?No. The answer is no.
  • Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis
    E4
    Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zisYou're not Mel Brooks.
  • Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!
    E5
    Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!But there's a benefit to losing... you get to learn from your mistake. So don't worry, we're gonna fix colonialism, y'all!
  • The Complex Feels of Guardians of the Galaxy v.2
    E6
    The Complex Feels of Guardians of the Galaxy v.2why I felt a feel
  • The Revisionist World of Disney: Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Saving Mr. Banks
    E7
    The Revisionist World of Disney: Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Saving Mr. BanksDisney's way of framing culture, history and stories may filter out a lot, but there is a reason why sometimes people need that Disney magic.
  • The Case for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    E8
    The Case for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre DameHunchback is the metaphorical Quasimodo of the disney animated feature film canon--weird, hidden away, and relegated to its master's hairshirt. Some common and consistent criticisms of the film have cropped up over the years, but they often miss crucial context and the original goal of Victor Hugo's dark tale of human brutality.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Genres Tell No Tales
    E9
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Genres Tell No Talesyo-ho yo-ho, Eisner/King Lear analogy
  • Stranger Things, IT and the Upside Down of Nostalgia
    E10
    Stranger Things, IT and the Upside Down of NostalgiaLet's take a look at the idea of the 30-year cycle, and why 80's themed media is suddenly so lucrative.

 

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