GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 5A: Audiences, Part 1: Alternatives to “Perfect Days”
Update: 2025-07-21
Description
In this multi-part series, we’ve focused on just one movie to explore a key idea in film studies. But this one choice means we’ve left out multitudes. Here is the larger set of also-rans we wrestled with before finally choosing “Perfect Days”.
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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A:
- “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
- “Dolemite” (D’Urville Martin, 1975)
- “Blacula” (William Crain, 1972)
- “Cecil B. Demented” (John Waters, 2000)
- “Mo’ Better Blues” (Spike Lee, 1990)
- “Another Gay Movie” (Todd Stephens, 2006)
- “Cleopatra Jones” (Jack Starrett, 1973)
- “Border” (Ali Abbasi, 2018)
Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A:
- “Vintage Movie Projector | Sound Effect | Feel The Past Film Industry” by n Beats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUICp5XeJ4
- “Film Clapperboard Green Screen Effect With Sound” by Jacob Anderson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1sEiCa-yic
- “Slide projector changing with clicks” by (Soundsnap), https://www.soundsnap.com/tags/slide_projector?page=2
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