Reel War Project

This week Charles and Aaron record their final episode of Season One, looking back at the batch on Normandy. We discuss a "classic epic", a "thoughtful critique", and a "roller coaster ride with zombies." The book would be "Grover Gets Killed at The End of This Book," he would get into a Higgins boat, and then we turn the page. Thanks for listening to Season One of Reel War! Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

In this episode of Reel War Project: Dirt Maps Aaron talks to Alyssa “Ember” Smith about her paper comparing legacies of white washing and blackwashing. We talk about cinema and priming, the politics of representation, and the importance of anti-racism in climates of white supremacy. Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charlie and Aaron watch the 33rd and final movie of the season: Overlord (2018). We talk about blackwashing and whitewashing; the sharing of technology between cinema and games; and once again we explore horror as a platform for war culture. It’s gross. Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charlie and Aaron continue Batch 11 on Normandy with 1975's Overlord. We talk about "The Falling Soldier" photo, using war footage with horror tropes to resist war, moving bodies (until there is nothing left at all), and how we don't know where we are going until we are there. If you want a moving and critical war film you have to check this one out. Watch the movie FIRST, then tune in! Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron take The Big Step Off into the last batch of the season, starting with The Longest Day. Avengers vibes, officer movies, epic shots that stand the test of time, and the power of the lies of faction - get into the Higgins boat and puff up the bagpipes because it's time to go ashore. Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron wrap up Batch 10: A Crew of Specialists. We talk about the small squad archetype, violence with stakes, and alienhood rhetoric. Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project’s Dirt Maps episode four: Trek and Militarim: Dr. Amanda Taylor talks about her research into the martial body and the domestication of war, and then we talk Star Trek and pacifism. Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

Charles and Aaron wrap up Batch 10 with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. We talk about nonviolence in the aesthetic of empire, a long standing effort to speak to diversity from the standpoint of power, horny dolphins, and making a blockbuster war movie that never goes to war. Listen anywhere you get podcasts http://anchor.fm/reelwarproject Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week Charles and Aaron watch Bruce Willis connect Jacksonian Militarism to Global Meliorism while Tom Skerritt shouts into a phone on a very busy flight deck: we watched 2003's Tears of the Sun. Afro Pessimism meets the white savior industrial complex bent on "raising awareness," what we get is lots of shooting, awesome displays of power, "true stories" that never happened, and a spectacle of immolation. "I DON'T LIKE THIS." Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron kick off Batch 10 with 1961's The Guns of Navarone. We continue our discussions about photo-tourism and cinematography and what happens when a book becomes a movie. We also return to Star Wars cultures and movie music influencing sports. Bigger characters, valorized individuals, music for war and football games, all while we Zillow shop for our next military campaign locale against the backdrop of the proto-Death Star. Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron discuss Batch Nine: Taking Sides wherein doing nothing is doing something and we have things to say about it. We talk about the stupid choices America makes regarding war narratives in movies, storytelling and problems with no clear solutions, and Owen Wilson sliding on ice with the loudest pistol you have ever heard. Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron accidentally invent propaganda (twice); meanwhile, Owen Wilson takes a million dollar joyride at the expense of the US taxpayer. Jacksonian Militarism, angelic American exceptionalism and more sequels nobody wanted, we watched Behind Enemy Lines. Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week Charles and Aaron continue Batch 9. We explore media re-presentation and accountability via the lenses of objectivity and tourism, and the need to "do something" in the face of atrocity. Don't Worry, Be Happy, it's "Welcome to Sarajevo." Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week Reel War Project Charles and Aaron kick off Batch 9 with one of the most interesting movies yet: Before The Rain (1994). We talk about "quivering otherness," (non)legitimizing representations of violence, and we continue our discussion on the legacies of pacifism. The circle is NOT round, it is a paradox! Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message

This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron discuss Batch 8: Boiling Points. Stories that (try to) resist violence; the “inevitability” of war; digital black-face and white positionality; it’s getting Critical, and we are here for it. Follow on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our show on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodSoundLabs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message