ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Ahoy once more! 🏴
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The flag you’ve spotted in the distance is no illusion – we’re finally releasing another episode on Black Sails 🏴☠️🏝️⚓
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This month, we’re training our spy glasses on Season 1, Episode 2. Whether it’s tits or fruit, our main focus is VALUE – we’ll be digging into how ideas around value operate within pirate stories with their tropes of buried treasure, gold coins, and treasure maps. And as always, we’ll be exploring the influence of Empire on how worth is ascribed to the objects, places, and people of Nassau.
So pour yourself a shot of rum and join us over on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your podcasts!
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Notes on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes
Both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are on strike right now. Key issues involve residuals and use of AI among others. Please check the link below to both WGA and SAG to see their demands and support them when you can. Remember! DO NOT! CROSS THE PICKET LINE!
Check SAG’s rules for influencers here (https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/influencer-faqs) and do not perform covered services for a struck company during the strike!
https://www.wga.org/
📝 Shownotes: 📝
📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)
Primary Sources:
📺 “Black Sails” (2014-2017) (Robert Levine and Jonathan E. Steinberg) (Starz)
📚 “Treasure Island” (1883) (Robert Louis Stevenson)
📺 Kunst und Krempel (1985-present) (BR Fernsehen)
Secondary Sources:
📚 “Why We Love Pirates” (2020) by Rebecca Simon
🎮 “The Last of Us” (2013) (Naughty Dog) (Sony Computer Entertainment)📜 Jeffries, Stuart. “Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?” (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/04/woke-plank-pirate-ships-diversity-democracy-cornwall-exhibition)
🎞️ “Pirates of the Caribbean” (2003-2017) (dir. Gore Verbinski, Rob Marshall, Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 📜 Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Jeff Nathanson)
📼 “Jonathan Ross Interviews Keira Knightley part 1” (goldenultra, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJ_atmr4c0&t=284s) from 4:43.🎞️ “Cutthroat Island” (1995) (starring Geena Davis) (dir. Renny Harlin, 📜 Robert King, Marc Norman)
🎞️ “Romancing the Stone” (1984) (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 📜 Diane Thomas)🎞️ “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) (dir. Steven Spielberg, 📜 Lawrence Kasdan)
🌐 The Bechdel Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test)
📺 Game of Thrones (2011-2019) (David Benioff and D. B. Weiss)
🌐 Mr Scott (https://black-sails.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Scott)
📼 “Don’t be creepy, Emma Thompson” (verilybitchie, https://youtu.be/acccffJnr5A)
Recommendations:
🪧 SAG-AFTRA on why the strikes are imperative for the survival of the acting profession (https://www.sagaftra.org/were-fighting-survival-our-profession)
📜 FAQs for Influencers (https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/influencer-faqs)
Lili’s recommendations:
🎞️ “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986) (dir. Frank Oz, 📜 Howard Ashman)
📼 “The Musical That Changed Disney: Little Shop of Horrors” (Dreamsounds, https://youtu.be/esiADqA2FXU)
📱Social Media Handles📱:
IG: @liliannapod
Twitter: @liliannapod
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/liliannasprereadmediathek
🎹Intromusic🎹:
"Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🎹Outro Music🎹:
“Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
🎹Transition Music🎹:
“Page Turns, Book Close” by Pixabay – Pixabay
“Counting Me Shillings” by Pixabay – Pixabay
“Sea Waves” by Pixabay – Pixabay
“Sound Effect Seagulls” by ScottishPerson – Pixabay
“Chest Opening” by Pixabay – Pixabay
“sword against sword” by Pixabay – Pixabay
“Apple Bobbing in a Gymnasium” by Pixabay – Pixabay
