The Long Seventies Podcast

The Gauntlet with Toby Roan

We're joined by author and film connoisseur Toby Roan to talk about his book "Another Run Through...

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• 9 días

James Riley Interview: Author of Well Beings - How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves

We interview James Riley, author of "Well Beings - How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us...

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• 23 días

Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky

We discuss Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel Altered States and the 1980 film adaptation. It's an epic...

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Get Crazy (1983): Punk Rock World and 80s Eclecticism

We discuss Allan Arkush's 1983 film Get Crazy, a truly will and crazy cinematic experience and a...

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• 2 meses

Joseph Matheny Interview: Ong's Hat & The Alchemy of Alternative Realities

We're honored to interview poet and Ong's Hat creator Joseph Matheny. Great stories and some...

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• 2 meses

The Peoples' Temple and Jonestown

We discuss Jim Jones' The Peoples Temple, it's life and tragectory which ended in tragedy. 

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• 3 meses

Long Seventies Awards II

Round two of of Long Seventies Award Show. We're joined again by Sean from Fringe Biology...

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• 4 meses

Cowboys to Cops

We discuss the transition from Westerns to Cop movies during the Long Seventies, focusing...

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• 4 meses

Soul City, NC

We discuss Floyd McKissick's intentional community Soul City, North Carolina, its context, goals...

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• 5 meses

The Amityville Horror & Alien: Outsideness Inside

We discuss the theory that The Amityville Horror and Alien are conceptually the same movie and...

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• 6 meses

Rajneeshpuram: A Story of New Age Manifest Destiny

We discuss the story of the founding of the intentional community of Rajneeshpuram in the...

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• 6 meses

Firefox & Red Dawn -- Hollywood Cold War

 We discuss two important films that helped revitalize the American Cold War and militarism.

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• 7 meses

Super Synthtracks of the Seventies

We discuss some super synth-based soundtracks and scores from Long Seventies films

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• 7 meses

Sean Howe Interview -- Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s.

Author Sean Howe joins the show to talk about his new book "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade,...

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• 8 meses

Wall Street (1987): Rebranding Dystopia

We talk about Oliver Stone's 1987 drama Wall Street, starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen,...

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• 8 meses

Financialization

We discuss the rapid and sweeping financialization, corporate raiding and deindustrialization...

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• 9 meses

The Crazies (1973) & Wizards (1977): Techno-totalitarian Dystopian Horrors

Decade of Dystopia continues with two movies, The Crazies and Wizards. We discuss what these...

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• 9 meses

The Twin Crises of Continuity & Progress -- Decade of Dystopia

We discuss why the Long Seventies gave birth to so many dystopian creative works, specifically in...

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• 10 meses

Logan’s Run: There Is No Sanctuary

We discuss the 1976 dystopian sci-fi classic film Logan's Run, societal symbolic illiteracy,...

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• 10 meses

The Atrocity Exhibition: J.G. Ballard’s Syncromystical Masterpiece

We discuss acclaimed author JG Ballard’s 1969 experimental piece of transgressive syncromystical...

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• 11 meses