Bespoke critical deep dives. JUST KING THINGS. SHELVED BY GENRE. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman / @warrenisdead / @badsavingthrow
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i might have listened to this twice already. even tho it's four hours long and came out today. it's the best read on The Dark Tower ive encountered in, idk, 15 years
The wheel turns: reunions are made, battles are won, friends are lost, and 30 years of Stephen King's career are summarized and reflected upon as his magnum opus comes to a close with 2004's THE DARK TOWER, on the latest JUST KING THINGS: rangedtouch.com/2024/11/11/t…
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It's a BONUS week for SHELVED BY GENRE, so we're talking about 1985's rather imperfect, but very interesting romantic fantasy fable LADYHAWKE, featuring an out-of-place Matthew Broderick and one of the most dissonant soundtracks in film history: patreon.com/posts/shelved-by…
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GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES gets lost in a hotel lobby and discusses the work and legacy of Fredric Jameson, who had some thoughts about this situation we're all in back in 1984 with his essay "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism": rangedtouch.com/2024/10/31/7…
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Transformed by the years from a depressed teen to a depressed adult, Herald-Mage Vanyel goes home again for a series of awkward family interactions before a mysterious plot breaks out--as we read MAGIC'S PROMISE by Mercedes Lackey for SHELVED BY GENRE. rangedtouch.com/2024/10/25/m…
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Shoutout to @rangedtouch who covered Le Guin’s Wizard of Earthsea series on their podcast Shelved by Genre, an excellent deep dive into various literary genres. Well worth checking out if you’re into that kind of thing
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To celebrate this MONTH OF TERROR we have UNLEASED our LP of LITTLE HOPE from behind the paywall! A Ranged Touch fan favorite sees CMRN, Danni, and Michael navigating confusing controls and witch pilgrim mysteries. Michael gets audibly miserable! youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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I think this is one of the more interesting “sleeper hits” we’ve done on the show. Thorough, sometimes weird, really fascinating analysis of how games were operating in the 19th century.
OUT NOW on Game Studies Study Buddies: we talk about board games, early transmedia book-to-game and game-to-book adaptations, and pure humbug with Douglas A. Guerra's SLANTWISE MOVES: GAMES, LITERATURE, AND SOCIAL INVENTION IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA rangedtouch.com/2024/09/30/7…
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Speaking of seasons wrapping up, we also put a close to our Junji Ito unit over on Shelved by Genre today with an episode on SENSOR, which was such a fascinating surprise and I think the perfect book to close us out on.
Shelved By Genre today concludes its unit on Junji Ito with SENSOR, which is both a culmination of everything we've read so far as well as, in many unexpected ways, a huge deviation from Ito's normal outlook. Check it out: rangedtouch.com/2024/08/30/s…
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Folks in the Discord cracked it, so announcement: the next SHELVED BY GENRE unit will cover a quick, unique fantasy series, THE LAST HERALD-MAGE TRILOGY by Mercedes Lackey. You can grab the omnibus edition through our Bookshop list: bookshop.org/lists/shelved-b…
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HEADS UP: If you have any questions for Shelved by Genre's Junji Ito Q&A, be sure and get those into QuestionedByGenre @ Gmail by this Friday, 8/30!
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It's the end of the world, it's the beginning of the world.
In reading BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, we commissioned dramaturg @Gen_Ironicus to produce for you an audio drama of Dr. Talos's play ESCHATOLOGY & GENESIS, with poster art by @grym333 - Listen to it now
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There's a new SHELVED BY GENRE, and today the guys continue the Junji Ito discussion with REMINA, a cosmic horror story in which the end of the world (literally) reaches comically absurd proportions: rangedtouch.com/2024/08/16/r…
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On Patreon, for this month's exclusive Bonus Episode, we're checking out the half-King, half-Barker smorgasbord that is the weird TV movie QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY. As is usually the case when the movie is of a certain quality, we, uh, we have a discussion: patreon.com/posts/just-king-…
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The new JUST KING THINGS is here, and 2002's FROM A BUICK 8 allows us to talk about topics like King's continued stylistic development, his thoughts on policing, the nature of the structure of reality, and how weird and unruly technology can sometimes be: rangedtouch.com/2024/08/12/f…
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There's a new SHELVED BY GENRE bonus episode out today, exclusively for Patreon supporters, in which we go long on the extremely imperfect film adaptation of UZUMAKI, which at least gives us a lot to talk about: patreon.com/posts/shelved-by…
