Lindsay Ellis

Season 2018

Lindsay Ellis dissects film and media topics.

Where to Watch Season 2018

12 Episodes

  • Dear Stephenie Meyer
    E1
    Dear Stephenie MeyerIt's time to re-examine the decade-old culture surrounding Twilight-bashing.
  • Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding
    E2
    Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy WorldbuildingWe're broken people now.
  • My Monster Boyfriend
    E3
    My Monster BoyfriendSome have called The Shape of Water ... gimmicky, shall we say, but the desire to get down and dirty with monsters is (wait for it) a tale as old as time.
  • The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)
    E4
    The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)In which we look back at The Hobbit trilogy and try to give it a fair shake.
  • The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2)
    E5
    The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2)So we've looked into what the problems were with these movies, the question now is... why? What happened, Peter Jackson? WHAT HAPPENED?
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Warners (Part 3/2)
    E6
    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Warners (Part 3/2)Nothing is pure.
  • The Ideology of the First Order
    E7
    The Ideology of the First OrderAre you sick of Star Wars video essays? Yeah, me too. I'm sorry but it's my turn to talk about a Star War.
  • That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast
    E8
    That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the BeastThanks, I hate it.
  • The Death of the Hollywood Movie Musical
    E9
    The Death of the Hollywood Movie Musical“Roadshows command premium prices and the exclusive firstruns presumably whet appetites for the subsequent runs at regular prices. And they justify financially the greater length, high costs, starrier casts, and whatever else is big about bigness. The roadshow contagion is now so epidemic that almost any picture deal which comes along is very carefully mined for its intermission potential.”--Charles Champlin, The Los Angeles Times, 1967
  • YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)
    E10
    YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)
  • Product Placement and Fair Use
    E11
    Product Placement and Fair Use
  • Death of the Author
    E12
    Death of the AuthorWhat is brand can never die.

 

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