Back to 1997: Titanic Forever
In this last episode for my series on the 1997 movie, I go off script and recount the Titanic cultural phenomena but also the very personal feelings I have about it and how it relates to our understan...
21 Feb 20221h 38min
Back to 1997: The Profound Feminism of Rose DeWitt Bukater
In some ways I think I've been waiting to record this episode for 25 years, but I wouldn't have been ready until this moment. I cover the ways in which the Titanic disaster has been viewed along gende...
11 Feb 20221h 45min
Book Club: The Ship of Dreams, with Author Gareth Russell
Author Gareth Russell and I have a wonderfully in-depth conversation about the complexities of the lives of several of Titanic’s first-class passengers. If you follow the pod, you know I talk a lot ab...
4 Feb 20221h 31min
Back to 1997: On a Beach in Rosarito--The Making of James Cameron's Titanic (Part Two)
This second installment turns partly into an exploration of some of the real passengers aboard the ship and their portrayals in James Cameron's film--Thomas Andrews, Margaret Brown, Archibald Gracie....
31 Jan 20221h 35min
Back to 1997: On a Beach in Rosarito--The Making of James Cameron's Titanic (Part One)
This is part one of a truly surgical look at the making of James Cameron's Titanic, arguably one of the most popular/successful/beloved/fill-in-any-blank film of all time. Even if you're not a true Ti...
24 Jan 20221h 36min
(Re-release) The Six: The Chinese Survivors of Titanic, with Co-Creator Steven Schwankert
The Six is available online for a week starting tomorrow, January 22, 2022! Get your ticket for The Six here: https://watch.eventive.org/fhff/play/61c5f6235a819200d56d0547 Here's the film's descripti...
21 Jan 20221h 8min
(Re-release) Titanic on Film: James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss
Hi guys, I'm jumping on the feed to re-release my episode on James Cameron's 2003 documentary Ghosts of the Abyss, which details the expedition he took BACK to Titanic in 2001...with...Bill Paxton! Th...
18 Jan 202255min
Back to 1997: The Innovation and the Environmentalism of James Cameron
Whoa times about twenty, because this is a beast of an episode that grew its own legs. Here is my rundown of the life, career, and activism (yes, activism) of James Cameron, director of 1997's Titanic...
17 Jan 20222h 27min
