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ODYSSEY
Audio Library
Odyssey—September 30, 2005
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Film Forum: Films to See Before You Die
Lisa Fluet—Assistant Professor of English, Boston College
Tom Gunning—Chair, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Jonathan Miller—Film Instructor, Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Illinois, Chicago
There are movies you should see before your number's up. But which ones, and why? In the end, why do we need to see movies?
Film scholars Lisa Fluet, Jonathan Miller, and Tom Gunning join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the conversation. Fluet is working on the book, Vast Expertise: The New Class Character in the Twentieth Century. Miller is a film contributor for Chicago Public Radio. Gunning is author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity. He's also a professor of art history at the University of Chicago.
Tom Gunning's List
- La Region Centrale (1971), Michael Snow
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren
- Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
- Verdens Dag (Day of Wrath) (1943), Carl Dreyer
- Pierrot le Fou (1965), Jean-Luc Godard
- The Searchers (1956), John Ford
Jonathan Miller's List
- Films by Louis Lumiere (1890–1900)
- Window Water Baby Moving (1962), Stan Brakhage
- The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971), Stan Brakhage
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), Robert Bresson
- Kes (1969), Ken Loach
Lisa Fluet's List
- Le Samourai (1967), Jean-Pierre Melville
- Branded to Kill (1967), Seijun Suzuki
- The Day of the Jackal (1973), Fred Zinnemann
- Three Days of the Condor (1975), Sydney Pollack
- Blood Simple (1984), Joel Coen
- The Hit (1984), Stephen Frears
- My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003), Nathanial Kahn
Others Mentioned
- Every Man for Himself (1924), Robert McGowan
- Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) (1962), Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Orson Welles
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Odyssey—September 29, 2005
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Internal Migration in the U.S.
James Gregory—Professor of History and Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Kavita Pandit—Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens
Hurricane Katrina could potentially cause hundreds of people to relocate to new parts of the U.S., and it is just the latest
catalyst in a history full of internal migration. What effects do these population movements have on our country?
Historian James Gregory and geographer Kavita Pandit join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion.
Gregory is the author of The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed
America. Pandit is coeditor of Migration and Restructuring in the United States: A Geographic Perspective and is
vice president of the Association of American Geographers.
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Odyssey—September 28, 2005
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Curiosity
Lorraine Daston—Professor of Social Thought and History, University of Chicago
Neil Kenny—University Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge, England
They say, “Curiosity killed the cat.” But why did curiosity become so troubling to human beings? And what is our interest in curiosity?
Historian of science Lorraine Daston and intellectual historian Neil Kenny join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Daston is a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She's also coauthor, with Peter Galison, of the book, Images of Objectivity. Kenny is a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. He's also author of The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. |
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Odyssey—September 27, 2005
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The Future of the Human Face
Sander Gilman—Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University
Sandra Kemp—Director of Research, Royal College of Art, London
Who would you be without your face? As surgeons in Cleveland prepare to perform the first complete human face transplant, we're confronted with a host of new questions about medicine, ethics, and identity.
Cultural and medical historian Sander Gilman and art and cultural studies scholar Sandra Kemp join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Gilman is author of Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery and coeditor of the book, Smoke: A Global History of Smoking. Kemp is curator of an exhibit titled, Future Face: Image, Innovation, Identity, and author of a book by the same name. |
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Odyssey—September 26, 2005
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The Social Geography of Death
Henry Binford—Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Eric Klinenberg—Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University
Hurricanes and earthquakes, heat waves and disease epidemics—these sorts of disasters disproportionately affect society's least affluent areas. Why should death discriminate by geography?
Historian Henry Binford and sociologist Eric Klinenberg join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Binford is author of The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815–1860, and he's working on the book, The Invention of the Slum. Klinenberg is author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. |
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Odyssey—September 23, 2005
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Invoking the Enlightenment
Maureen McLane—Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
James Schmidt—Professor of History and Political Science, Boston University
A couple centuries after the Enlightenment ended, there are still disputes over what it was and whether it's still alive in contemporary debates about the relationship between science and religion. Why does the Enlightenment remain a touchstone?
Literary scholar Maureen McLane and historian James Schmidt join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. McLane is a visiting media scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She's also author of Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species. Schmidt is editor of What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. |
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Odyssey—September 22, 2005
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Common Law and the Constitution
David Strauss—Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Cass Sunstein—Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
Some argue that a common law approach to interpreting the U.S. constitution is the way to go. But what exactly is common law? And what does it have to do with the Constitution?
Legal scholars Cass Sunstein and David Strauss join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Sunstein is author of Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-wing Courts Are Wrong for America. Strauss is finishing the book, The Common Law Constitution. |
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Odyssey—September 21, 2005
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The Story of Katrina
Lisa Parks—Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bruce Williams—Professor, Institute of Communications Research; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Hurricane Katrina has changed the way we talk about many issues: race relations, global warming, the war in Iraq. These discussions take place on the Internet, in newspapers, in the halls of Washington. What meanings are we making out of the disaster?
Media scholar Lisa Parks and communications scholar Bruce Williams join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Parks is a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine. She's author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Williams is coauthor of Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation.
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Odyssey—September 20, 2005
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Alternatives to Money
Originally broadcast March 31, 2005
Bill Maurer—Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
David Woodruff—Visiting Associate Professor of Social Studies and Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Money drives our capitalist economy, but it's not the only way to get business done. Barter, community time dollars, even frequent flyer miles can all replace cold, hard cash. Do such money substitutes change the way we think about value?
Political scientist David Woodruff and anthropologist Bill Maurer join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Woodruff is author of Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. Maurer is author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. |
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Odyssey—September 19, 2005
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The Black Consumer
Adam Green—Assistant Professor, History and American Studies, New York University
Noliwe Rooks—Associate Director, Program in African-American Studies, Princeton University
These days it's easy to identify a “black” consumer culture. But African Americans were once unable to participate in the consumer marketplace on equal footing. What has consumer power meant for African Americans?
African American studies scholar Noliwe Rooks and historian Adam Green join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Rooks is author of Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them. Green is finishing the book, Selling the Race: Culture and Community in Black Chicago, 1940–1955. |
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Odyssey—September 16, 2005
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Film Forum: Film and Place
Kasia Marciniak—Associate Professor of English, Ohio University
Ellen McCallum—Associate Professor of English, Michigan State University
From the cosmopolitan capitals of The Bourne Identity to the Hong Kong streets of Chungking Express, place is a powerful element in the movies.
Film scholars Kasia Marciniak and Ellen McCallum join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Marciniak is finishing the book, Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference. She's an affiliated scholar at the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California. McCallum is finishing the book, Romancing the Phone: The Telephone in American Literature and Film. |
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Odyssey—September 15, 2005
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The Ghost in American Culture
Originally broadcast October 25, 2004
Renee Bergland—Associate Professor of English, Simmons College
Jeffrey Weinstock—Assistant Professor of Language and Literature, Central Michigan University
From Washington Irving's “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to Toni Morrison's Beloved, some of America's best stories happen to be ghost stories. But beyond the thrills and the goose bumps, what are writers using ghosts to explore?
Literary scholars Renee Bergland and Jeffrey Weinstock join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Bergland is author of The Natural Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. She's also on faculty at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Weinstock is editor of Spectral America: Phantoms and the American Imagination, and he's working on the book, Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women As a Form of Social Protest. |
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Odyssey—September 14, 2005
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Slavery, Memory, and the Underground Railroad
Originally broadcast September 20, 2004
David Blight—Professor of African American Studies and History, Yale University
Eddie Glaude—Associate Professor, Program in African American Studies, Princeton University
The story of the Underground Railroad holds an honored place in America's collective memory. Blacks and whites alike can lay claim to this history. But as we remember the Underground Railroad, what kind of story are we telling with it?
Religious studies scholar Eddie Glaude and historian David Blight join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Glaude is author of Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. Blight is editor of Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory. |
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Odyssey—September 13, 2005
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Interpreting the Constitution
Originally broadcast February 8, 2005
Maxwell Stearns—Professor of Law, George Mason University
David Strauss—Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, University of Chicago
When the Senate holds judicial nomination hearings, there are often fierce debates over how to interpret the Constitution. What are these battles really about?
Legal scholars Maxwell Stearns and David Strauss join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Stearns is author of Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision Making. Strauss is finishing the book, The Common Law Constitution. |
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Odyssey—September 12, 2005
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Gay Marketing
Originally broadcast May 12, 2005
Lee Badgett—Director, Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies, and Associate Professor of Economics; University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Suzanna Walters—Chair, Department of Gender Studies, and Professor of Sociology and Communications and Culture; Indiana University, Bloomington
Gayness is increasingly used to attract consumers, both gay and straight. Some celebrate this as a sign of acceptance, but others argue that it's co-opting gay identity and politics. What does the marketing and consumption of gayness mean?
Economist Lee Badgett and sociologist Suzanna Walters join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Badgett is author of Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men. Walters is author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America. |
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Odyssey—September 9, 2005
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Japanese Pop Culture in America
Originally broadcast February 17, 2005
Anne Allison—Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Christine Yano—Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Hello Kitty, anime, and Yu-Gi-Oh!—these and other Japanese cultural exports have been called Japan's “gross national cool.” What is it about Japanese pop culture that Americans find so appealing?
Anthropologists Anne Allison and Christine Yano join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Allison is author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Yano is author of Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song.
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Odyssey—September 8, 2005
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Public Opinion in Wartime
Bruce Jentleson—Professor of Political Science and of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
Steven Kull—Director, Center on Policy Attitudes
Over the summer, public opinion on the war in Iraq took a marked downward turn. What influences the public's opinion of military campaigns? And how does that opinion matter?
Political scientist Bruce Jentleson and political psychologist Steven Kull join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Jentleson is author of American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the Twenty-first Century. Kull is coauthor of Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism. |
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Odyssey—September 7, 2005
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William Rehnquist and the Supreme Court
Dennis Hutchinson—Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
Thomas Merrill—Charles Keller Beekman Professor, Columbia University School of Law
Chief Justice William Rehnquist is credited with engineering a federalism revolution and moving the Supreme Court rightward. But recent decisions suggest the Court has shifted away from this agenda. What will be the legacy of Rehnquist's tenure?
Our usual guides to the Supreme Court, Thomas Merrill and Dennis Hutchinson, join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Hutchinson is author of The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington.
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Odyssey—September 6, 2005
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The U.S. and Atlantic History
Laurent Dubois—Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
John Gillis—Professor of History, Emeritus, Rutgers University
American history is often told as the story of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. But from the slave trade to whaling to the exchange of goods and ideas, what does a view from the Atlantic Ocean add to our understanding?
Historians Laurent Dubois and John Gillis join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Dubois is author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Gillis is author of Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World. He's teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Odyssey—September 5, 2005
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American Mania
Originally broadcast May 11, 2005
Lennard Davis—Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Education; University of Illinois, Chicago
Jennifer Fleissner—Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Mania has become a prism through which we understand the American character: our hyperproductivity, the 24/7 news cycle, even the bold risks taken by early settlers. How did the idea of mania acquire such explanatory power?
Literary scholar Jennifer Fleissner and disability studies scholar Lennard Davis join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Fleissner is author of Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. Davis is author of Bending over Backwards: Dismodernism, Disability, and Other Difficult Positions.
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Odyssey—September 2, 2005
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Film Forum: Off Screen Space and Film
Originally broadcast February 4, 2005
David Bordwell—Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jonathan Miller—Professor of Film Studies, Illinois Institute of Technology
Our reactions to movies are usually based on what we see on the screen. But how a director defines and uses the space off screen can be equally as effective. How is off screen space used in the movies?
Film scholars David Bordwell and Jonathan Miller join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discusssion. Miller is a film critic for Chicago Public Radio.
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Odyssey—September 1, 2005
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Motherhood in the Margins
Originally broadcast May 16, 2005
Chris Bobel—Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Annelise Orleck—Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
The image of a “good” mother put forth by advertisers, the medical system, and even government policies leaves little room for those such as single, lesbian, and poor moms. What do our idealized notions of motherhood mean for those who don't fit the mold?
Historian Annelise Orleck and women's studies scholar Chris Bobel join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Orleck is author of Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Bobel is author of The Paradox of Natural Mothering.
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