Cinema Scope charts the interconnected landscape of film genres, subgenres, and movements, revealing how cultural forces, technological advances, and societal shifts shape the evolution of cinema.Ever wonder how Blaxploitation cinema revolutionized Hollywood in the 1970s? Or what makes Nordic Noir distinctly different from other crime stories? Each episode bridges the connections between film styles that define our favorite movies. Join filmmaker and host Andy Nelson as he explores:The emergence and evolution of distinctive film movementsHow historical events spark new genresCultural impacts that reshape storytellingTechnological advances that enable new stylesThe cross-pollination between genres and subgenresEach episode features expert guests...
Latest episodes
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1 h 07
Postwar Crime Procedurals: The System on Trial (with Foster Hirsch)
What happens when American cinema stops looking at crime from the outside and puts the institution itself on trial? Postwar Crime Procedurals—the final entry in the Cinema Scope po…
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60 min
Postwar Paranoia Thrillers: The Enemy Has No Face (with Tony Shaw)
How does cinema dramatize a dread with no face? This month, Tony Shaw, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Hertfordshire and author of “Hollywood’s Cold War,” jo…
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1 h 37
Postwar Domestic Melodrama: The Home as a System of Control (with Patricia White)
Hollywood's domestic melodramas of the late 1940s and 1950s have often been dismissed as weepy entertainments—but film scholar Patricia White makes a compelling case that filmmaker…
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1 h 29
Film Noir: Crime and the Ordinary Man (with Foster Hirsch)
Film noir didn't emerge from postwar prosperity—it was born during the war itself, carrying the anxiety of a culture already in dislocation. Andy and film historian and Professor o…
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1 h 39
1950s Science Fiction: Atomic Age Anxiety (with Robert Horton)
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2 h 11
Post‑War Westerns: The Moral Turn (with John Sanders)
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1 h 06
British New Wave: Realism Without Mercy (with David Forrest)
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2 h 01
Heist Films: The Plan and the Betrayal (with Luka Arsenjuk & Tim Palmer)
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1 h 32
Angry Young Man: Amitabh Bachchan and 1970s India (with Shivendra Singh Dungarpur)
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2 h 24
J‑Horror: Fear Without Rules (with Lindsay Nelson & Dr. Colette Balmain)
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1 h 36
Found Footage Horror: Reality as Evidence (with Ryan Verrill)
Grab your camera and brace yourself as host Andy Nelson and guest Ryan Verrill dive headfirst into the spine-chilling world of found footage horror—a subgenre that transformed home…
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2 h 02
Blaxploitation: The Empowered Gaze (with Odie Henderson)
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1 h 33
Iranian New Wave: Poetry Under Pressure (with Kaveh Askari)
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1 h 21
Comedy: Why Jokes Age (with Adam “Tex” Davis)
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1 h 42
Screwball Comedy: Seven More to Watch (Bonus) (with Grégoire Halbout)
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2 h 33
Screwball Comedy: Love, Class, Chaos (with Wes Gehring)
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1 h 56
Remakesploitation: Cinema’s Unauthorized Wilds (with Dr. Iain Robert Smith)
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1 h 59
Nordic Noir: Crime in a Cold Key (with Jakob Stougaard‑Nielsen)
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1 h 47
Italian Giallo: Style and Suspense (with Dr. Leon Hunt)
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21 min
French New Wave: Varda’s Breakthrough (Bonus) (with Carrie Rickey)
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