Episode 129 - Non-Fiction Film & TV Books

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Film & TV books! We discuss media about media, self-pity book purchasing, spoilers, and more! Plus: Kakapos!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Appleberry

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
• Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
• Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano and Arturo Torres
• Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Questlove
• Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss, Mathew Klickstein
• Hollywood vs. the Author edited by Stephen Jay Schwartz
• Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies by Ann Hornaday
• The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
• Richard Ayoade Presents the Grip of Film by Gordy LaSure
• Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey
  • Typeset in the Future website
• 101 Movies to Watch Before You Die by Ricardo Cavolo
• How to Watch Television, Second Edition edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell

Other Media We Mentioned

• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Wikipedia)
• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Wikipedia)
• Samurai Pizza Cats (Wikipedia)
• My Pet Monster (Wikipedia)
• The A-Team (Wikipedia)
• Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia)
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia)
• Goosebumps (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
  • Saturday Night Live (Wikipedia)
• The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy by Paul Myers
  • The Kids in the Hall (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• The Fugitive (Wikipedia)
• View from the Top (Wikipedia)
• The Room (Wikipedia)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Wikipedia)
• Alien (Wikipedia)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wikipedia)
• Blade Runner (Wikipedia)
• Total Recall (Wikipedia)
• WALL-E (Wikipedia)
• Moon (Wikipedia)
• House (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Battlestar Galactica (Wikipedia)
• The Video Game History Hour podcast
• Decoder Ring - The Soap Opera Machine
• Shrill (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Love, Actually (Wikipedia)
• List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies (Wikipedia)
• 33⅓ (Wikipedia)
• Criminal Minds (Wikipedia)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wikipedia)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Wikipedia)
• Dredd (Wikipedia)
• The Muppets (Wikipedia)
• Top Gun (Wikipedia)
  • Kate Beaton’s Top Gun comics
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wikipedia)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Wikipedia)
• Armageddon Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know about Zombies, Contagions, Aliens, and the End of the World as We Know It! by Dale Sherman

Links, Articles, and Things

• Library Punk episode 014 - Manga
• Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective
  • Fanart!
• Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction
• Toy Galaxy (YouTube channel)
• Lindsay Ellis (YouTube channel)
• Amanda the Jedi (YouTube channel)
• Jenny Nicholson (YouTube channel)
• Every Frame a Painting (YouTube channel)
  • Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting by co-creator Tony Zhou
• Welcome to the Basement
• Pushing Up Roses (YouTube channel)
• Jacob Geller (YouTube channel)
• Letterboxd (Wikipedia)
  • Demi Adejuyigbe on Letterboxd
• Sidewalk Slam - Episode 57 - AEW Revolution 2021 (YouTube)
• Kakapo (Wikipedia)
  • Lego set
• Diegesis (Wikipedia)
• The Stranger (newspaper) (Wikipedia)
• Chuck Klosterman (Wikipedia)
• Hanif Abdurraqib (Wikipedia)

24 Film/TV/Video Non-Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Jonathan Abrams
• “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations' Voices Speak Out by Sierra S. Adare
• Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
• Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance by Christina N. Baker
• Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman
• The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry by Maryann Erigha
• Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero
• Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals About Psychology, Identity, and Communication by Sheena C. Howard
• Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa
• Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals by Julia Lee
• The Films of Bong Joon Ho by Nam Lee
• Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts edited by Russell Leong
• Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic by Helen Hok-Sze Leung
• Cinema-Interval by Trinh T. Minh-ha
• Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele
• Where Do You Think We Are?: Ten Illustrated Essays About Scrubs by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres
• Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Viola Shafik
• Maori Television: The First Ten Years by Jo Smith
• Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
• Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms by Dustin Tahmahkera
• Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto by Melvin Van Peebles
• Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen
• I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio by Kristal Brent Zook

Also check out the booklist from our episode on Entertainment Non-Fiction.

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