episode3–westerns We celebrate the advent of episode 3 by delving into one of American cinema’s most persistent (and, arguably, pernicious) genres: the Western. We’ll certainly revisit the auteur-oater during future episodes, but for now, Gareth and Dave content themselves with sketching out their respective positions vis-a-vis the genre in the broadest possible terms. The resultant... Read more.

The Gaze Agenda. Episode 2. Oscar Post-Mortem Hello again, dear listeners! On today’s show, Gareth Hedges and David Fiore provide their respective reactions to this year’s Academy Awards extravaganza – and the movies that were roped into the spotlight this year. We don’t want to give too much away in the text, but we can... Read more.

The Gaze Agenda Episode 1 Here, for your listening pleasure (just click on the link above), is the inaugural episode of a hopefully-mildly diverting series of forays into film and its oddly comforting discontents. Co-hosts Gareth Hedges and David Fiore sketch out their credentials as cinephiles and look ahead to this podcast’s nigh-limitless future. Along... Read more.