Reel War Project
Summary: Charles is a Purple-Heart veteran and long-time cinephile; Aaron is a critical rhetorician and Co-Host of The Alien Movie Project and together they are exploring the narrative, affective, and production politics of the most actiony of action movies: The War Movie. Three movies per batch, one batch episode comparing the three, “Dirt Maps” digging deeper into what we learned, listen in wherever you find your podcasts.
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This week on Reel War Project Charles, Aaron and Eli extend their discussion on child soldiers by talking about triumphant war gothic, white settler exceptionalism, and the cola wars: it's "soda" not "pop!" Avenge me! We watched Red Dawn (1984)! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our network 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, Aaron and Eli discuss 2015's Beasts of No Nation. Afro-Pessimism, White Exceptionalism, Child Soldiers, Positional story telling (and all associated cop-outs): what more could you want in a war podcast? Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our network 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 the Reel War Project Charles, Aaron and Eli discuss the 1959 German film The Bridge. We talk about children soldiers, boyhood, off-camera war, Ur fascism and fascist apologetic. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our network 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, Aaron, and Eli talk about Batch 4: Star Wars Cultures. Music and affect, the triumph of death vs the rejection of cruelty, and the individual masculine capability to enact spectacles of slaughter-Boffin-style! Use the force, baby! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our network 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, Aaron, and Eli talk about arguably the most important American War film of all time - 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope. Bask in the afterglow of planetary destruction as we discuss sound politics, better AND worse standpoint, and cotton candy war culture. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our network 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, Aaron, and Eli talk about “lesser characters,” feminine standpoint across galaxies, and a war movie that rejects the war; we watched 1958’s The Hidden Fortress. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our network 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 1955’s The Dam Busters: a “classic” about the British bombing raid that killed 1600 forced laborers and inspired a generational war long ago, in a galaxy far far away. Oh, and Boffins! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com 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 talk about the movies from Batch Three: “Afghanistan” - Lone Survivor, The Beast, and The Man Who Would Be King. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com 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 2013's Lone Survivor. Military romanticism, white masculine weapons fetishization, individualism and BAD history - everything the D.O.D. loves in a war film! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com 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 a little-known yet sort of prophetic 1988 film: The Beast. Primitivism meets technology, crew culture, and “Afghanistan.” Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com 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 discuss gun culture, colonialism, settler colonialism, and white masculine individualist worst muckers via 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts Listen to us on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU Send us an email reelwarproject@gmail.com Follow our the podcast and our network 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 talk about the movies from Batch Two: Failsafe, Strategic Air Command, and Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Come for the spectacle, stay for the satire! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message
Baseball, Stratojets, and women who are right but apologize anyway; this week Charles and Aaron talk about the 1955 film Strategic Air Command and movies the DOD can get behind. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message
This week on Reel War Project Charles and Aaron discuss the 1964 film Failsafe as well as Malthusian ethics (Thanos did nothing wrong!), satire and criticism, and making movies the defense industry doesn’t want made. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3nnK9FtFfGZD6HLSnaFWiU --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message
This episode of Reel War Project Charles and Aaron talk about satire, big boards, and histories of anti-vaxers saving our precious fluids from communist infiltration. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reelwarproject/message
