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Body Genres, Embodiment And Engagement: Second Person In Audio Storytelling, Riccardo Giacconi Jul 2023

Body Genres, Embodiment And Engagement: Second Person In Audio Storytelling, Riccardo Giacconi

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In the article, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess” (1991), Linda Williams defines as body genres the film genres that are based on stimulating certain physical reactions in the bodies of spectators. These are fear (horror), sexual arousal (pornography), and tears (melodrama). All three genres share, “an apparent lack of proper aesthetic distance, a sense of over-involvement in sensation and emotion. We feel manipulated,” by them. The bodies of whoever watches these films are involved in an “involuntary mimicry” of the body on the screen. During a talk at the 2016 Third Coast Conference, radio producer Eleanor McDowall inquired about …


Toward A Third Podcasting: Activist Podcasting In An Age Of Social Justice Capitalism, Jess Shane Jan 2023

Toward A Third Podcasting: Activist Podcasting In An Age Of Social Justice Capitalism, Jess Shane

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A manifesto that provocatively argues for the rise of "Third Podcasting" patterned after Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's concept of "Third Cinema."