Cinema Scope: Bridging Genres, Subgenres, & Movements
TruStory FMCinema Scope charts the interconnected landscape of film genres, subgenres, and movements, revealing how cultural forces, technological advances, and societal shifts shape the evolution of cinema.Ever wonder how Blaxploitation cinema revolutionized Hollywood in the 1970s? Or what makes Nordic Noir distinctly different from other crime stories? Each episode bridges the connections between film styl... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 28 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Film InterviewsTV & FilmFilm History | |||
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What happens when American cinema stops looking at crime from the outside and puts the institution itself on trial? Postwar Crime Procedurals—the final entry in the Cinema Scope postwar miniseries—traces the mode from Jules Dassin's The Naked City th... more
How does cinema dramatize a dread with no face? This month, Tony Shaw, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Hertfordshire and author of “Hollywood’s Cold War,” joins Andy Nelson to trace the postwar paranoia thriller across ten film... more
Hollywood's domestic melodramas of the late 1940s and 1950s have often been dismissed as weepy entertainments—but film scholar Patricia White makes a compelling case that filmmakers like Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli, and Nicholas Ray were doing so... more
Film noir didn't emerge from postwar prosperity—it was born during the war itself, carrying the anxiety of a culture already in dislocation. Andy and film historian and Professor of Film at Brooklyn College Foster Hirsch move chronologically through ... more
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Apple Podcasts | #114 |  United States/TV & Film/Film History |
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Cinema Scope explores the web of film genres, subgenres, and movements, highlighting how historical events, cultural shifts, and technological advances shape cinematic evolution. Episodes typically feature expert guests who unpack essential films, discuss stylistic breakthroughs, and connect movements across eras and regions. The show reliably pairs rigorous scholarship with accessible analysis, offering listeners deep dives into topics like film noir, postwar melodrama, Westerns, British New Wave, heist cinema, and international movements. A notable strength is the emphasis on cross-pollination between genres and eras, often supported by host-led context and guest perspectives from academia, criticism, and archival research. This combinati... more
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4. Robert Horton
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