Help finding an episode of On the Media from a snippit
January 10, 2016 9:39 PM Subscribe
Hi, I'm trying to put together a week of lectures on Women in Refrigerators for my students and I have gone and found Gail Simone's old list and looked at Feminist Frequency's episodes for Bitch Magazine, and I have some passages from a myth textbook and Joseph Campbell's work. But I want to add one of my favorite podcasts, On the Media.
I vaguely remember the host Brooke Gladstone talking to a guest once and she says that when she was younger and she remembers watching those old black and white movies like Perils of Pauline she remembers there being something vaguely erotic or sexual about the way that the evil villains would tie up the damsels in distress and leave them on the railroad tracks, and she may have said she wrote her masters thesis on it?
But I can't find a thesis on Proquest or JStor that Brooke published, anyone with a fantastic memory?
Response by poster: I checked that. Stanford U doesn't have any electronic copies of theses before 1989 and Gladstone would've been around before then. The theses aren't on Jstor, WorldCat, or Proquest, and they don't show up when you search their thesis database specifically. I think UVM is the undergrad school.
posted by ABlanca at 12:27 AM on January 11, 2016
posted by ABlanca at 12:27 AM on January 11, 2016
Best answer: Are you sure you aren't misremembering Terry Gross' interview with Marc Maron?
MARON: So what was your job at first when you got in there?
GROSS: Well, it was a kind of group-run program, so we'd all alternate, like, who was on the air and who was producing and who was editing and who was engineering and everything. But the first shows that I actually, like, wrote and voiced - one was on women in the blues. Like, early women and blues singers. One was on the history of women's restrictive undergarments - bras and girdles, who invented them and why. And one of the early shows I did was about sadomasochistic images of women in popular culture because I grew up with Westerns and women in Westerns were all always getting kidnapped and held hostage. And I could always tell that there was something kind of kinky going on with this. You know, like women would always, like - they would have their hands tied behind them and they'd be, like, wriggling around and everything. You could always tell, like, this is - you know, I'm a kid. I know this is kinky, like (laughter) you know?
posted by Cold Lurkey at 3:59 AM on January 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
MARON: So what was your job at first when you got in there?
GROSS: Well, it was a kind of group-run program, so we'd all alternate, like, who was on the air and who was producing and who was editing and who was engineering and everything. But the first shows that I actually, like, wrote and voiced - one was on women in the blues. Like, early women and blues singers. One was on the history of women's restrictive undergarments - bras and girdles, who invented them and why. And one of the early shows I did was about sadomasochistic images of women in popular culture because I grew up with Westerns and women in Westerns were all always getting kidnapped and held hostage. And I could always tell that there was something kind of kinky going on with this. You know, like women would always, like - they would have their hands tied behind them and they'd be, like, wriggling around and everything. You could always tell, like, this is - you know, I'm a kid. I know this is kinky, like (laughter) you know?
posted by Cold Lurkey at 3:59 AM on January 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
The stay of On the Media is relatively small and exceedingly friendly. I once sent them a simple throwaway question about a variation of their theme music and I got a response from Brooke herself really quickly. So I guess in short, you shouldn't pass up the opportunity just to ask OTM.
posted by mmascolino at 5:10 AM on January 11, 2016
posted by mmascolino at 5:10 AM on January 11, 2016
On the Media contact form.
Brooke Gladstone on Twitter.
posted by alms at 8:04 AM on January 11, 2016
Brooke Gladstone on Twitter.
posted by alms at 8:04 AM on January 11, 2016
Response by poster: Terry with Marc! Thanks that's it!
posted by ABlanca at 11:50 PM on January 11, 2016
posted by ABlanca at 11:50 PM on January 11, 2016
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posted by bluedaisy at 11:53 PM on January 10, 2016