Sounds Familiar

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#7: Footsteps
September 07, 2012

We hear a lot about the work goes into getting the eye-grabbing visuals Hollywood blockbusters… but how much work goes into getting the sounds? You may be surprised to learn that behind, not just the explosions and fight scenes, but behind every do

#7: Footsteps
September 07, 2012

We hear a lot about the work goes into getting the eye-grabbing visuals Hollywood blockbusters… but how much work goes into getting the sounds? You may be surprised to learn that behind, not just the explosions and fight scenes, but behind every do

#6: Series in Decline
June 07, 2012

It’s happened again. Your favorite TV show (or graphic novels or movie franchise or podcast) is headed down the tubes. The shark has been jumped, and now there’s no looking back.  What does it mean for a series to be in decline? What does it

#6: Series in Decline
June 07, 2012

It’s happened again. Your favorite TV show (or graphic novels or movie franchise or podcast) is headed down the tubes. The shark has been jumped, and now there’s no looking back.  What does it mean for a series to be in decline? What does it

#5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror
May 31, 2012

In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films: “these films hate women.”  Whether that’s true—and w

#5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror
May 31, 2012

In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films: “these films hate women.”  Whether that’s true—and w

#4: The Rule of Threes
May 24, 2012

Is three really the magic number? Sometimes it seems like it. From three blind mice to sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, things that come in threes just seem… right. This time I’ll speak with Michael Eck, who has tracked down and documented

#4: The Rule of Threes
May 24, 2012

Is three really the magic number? Sometimes it seems like it. From three blind mice to sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, things that come in threes just seem… right. This time I’ll speak with Michael Eck, who has tracked down and document

#3: The Loudness War
May 17, 2012

The Loudness War is the pejorative name given to the decades-long struggle to try and make the loudest record, to have that one song that’ll stand out above the flood of other sounds we hear, musical and non-musical, on a daily basis. Of course, wi

#3: The Loudness War
May 17, 2012

The Loudness War is the pejorative name given to the decades-long struggle to try and make the loudest record, to have that one song that’ll stand out above the flood of other sounds we hear, musical and non-musical, on a daily basis. Of course,