Q&A: TANGERINE DIRECTOR SEAN BAKER
On December 5, director Sean Baker answered questions via Skype for Prof. Scahill's Film Genre class as they concluded a unit on the screwball comedy. His award-winning film Tangerine chronicles a day in the life of two transgender sex workers in L.A. using a hyper-saturated "pop vérité" style and caused a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival for being shot entirely on an iPhone 5. In the clip above, Baker addresses the political potential of both social realism and come
INTERVIEW: TV'S STRANGER THINGS
Dr. Scahill was interviewed for the Winter 2016 issue of the British magazine Dazed and Confused as part of their special feature on the immensely popular Netflix series Stranger Things. In the article, Susanne Madsen considers the impact of the series on nostalgia-hungry adult fans, and what this turn to the 1980s might say about 2016. Dr. Scahill was called upon due to his unique work on childhood and monstrosity, as well as his more recent scholarship on reboots and remak
