The Dames discuss the Most American Genre: the Western! This episode includes:

• The history of the Western
• Western tropes
• Subgenres galore!
• The weird relationship between Japan and the American Western
• Why The Searchers is really good and also really not-good
• Blazing Saddles!
• And Johnny Guitar's challenge against toxic masculinity

This week, the Dames discuss the most important topics, including:

• Baby Yoda! 
• Hamilton!
• What We Been Watching
• Cancel culture and the Harper's letter https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Plus: Listener questions!

This week, the Dames discuss any manner of bad (and good!) things, including the return (sigh) of the Garbage Men:

• Ansel Elgort gets accused of assault and Film Twitter shows their asses - https://www.thewrap.com/ansel-elgort-sexual-assault-2014
• White male film critic has another tantrum https://twitter.com/firstshowing/status/1273597808709447681
• AMC reverses course on mask policy
• Nia DaCosta's Candy Man short http://manualcinema.com/company/
• Hot Movie Dads!

Plus Listener Questions and What We've Been Watching!

• The Big Five
• The Paramount Case and anti-trust laws (1948)
• The 1950s and the further decline of the system into the independent era
• Important genres: film noir, horror, melodrama, prestige pictures
• Star personas! 
• Female filmmakers during the system
• Some lesser known essentials of the era

We're back this week with our dear friend Kimberly Pierce! This week, the Dames are discussing:

• The definition of Feminist Film Criticism
• Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" and Male vs. Female Gaze
• The future of feminist film criticism

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This week, the Dames take some time out to discuss the many ins and outs of film noir and the Columbia Noir collection on the Criterion Channel, including:

• The Lady from Shanghai
• The Sniper
• Pushover
• My Name is Julia Ross
• How hot is Rita Hayworth?!
• And why Fred MacMurray is the worst. 

Plus, a tribute to the awesomeness that is Honor Blackman.

The Dames continue their quarantine episodes with discussions of fun things, like:

• Netflix's Tiger King
• Kino Marquee and supporting your local arthouse cinema
• More Women's History Month shenanigans
• And favorite isolation movies!

You can access Kino Marquee via your local arthouse or go here: https://www.kinolorber.com/film/bacurau#playdates

The good thing about having a podcast is you can social distance and still record! Everything is scary, but there things that happened this week that are actually good. 

• Harvey Weinstein gonna go to prison for 23 years: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51840532#:~:text=Disgraced%20film%20producer%20Harvey%20Weinstein,on%20Wednesday%20in%20a%20wheelchair.
• Karyn Kusama’s Dracula https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/new-dracula-movie-works-as-universal-remakes-monsterverse-1283635
• Allllllll the movies are postponed due to coronavirus
• Movies to stream in quarantine
• Plus, Lauren talks The Lady Vanishes