Ep. 30: FREAKS (1932) - The Zipper

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 9 a.m.

b'It\'s the last episode of season 3! This week Gracie & Abbey talk about the infamous pre-code, Tod Browning film, FREAKS!\\n\\nThanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme music: www.lilythecomposer.com\\n\\nThanks to Dalton Dobson for our promo photos: www.facebook.com/LightenedImagination/\\n\\nCheck out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com\\n\\n---\\n\\nResources:\\n\\nBadley, Linda. Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic. Greenwood Press, 1995. Questia.com, Tod Browning, Freaks.\\n\\nBirth. Movies. Death. - The Unseen \\u201cFreaks\\u201d: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/10/03/the-unseen-freaks\\n\\nBitch Flicks: Freaks Sing the Body Eclectic\\nhttp://www.btchflcks.com/2013/10/freaks-sing-the-body-eclectic.html#.WxFdkFMvy9Y\\n\\nBrowning, Tod, director. Freaks. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, 1932\\n\\nChurch, David. \\u201cFreakery, Cult Films, and the Problem of Ambivalence.\\u201d Journal of Film and Video, vol. 63, no. 1, 2011. Questia.com, Tod Browning, Freaks.\\n\\nDisability in Tod Browning\\u2019s FREAKS:\\nhttps://justanotherbodiesoffilmblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/disability-and-tod-brownings-freaks/\\n\\nFreaks Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPfgrN7ZfCY\\n\\n\\u201cFreaks still has the power to shock\\u201d - The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/freaks-tod-browning-s-greatest-film-still-has-the-power-to-shock-1.2249914\\n\\nFreaks & Old Weird America: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/09/tod-browning-freaks-banned\\n\\nHerzogenrath, Bernd. \\u201cJoin the United Mutations: Tod Browning\'s Freaks.\\u201d Post Script, vol. 21, no. 3, July 2002. Questia.com, Tod Browning, Freaks.\\n\\nHorror Film History: Freaks (1932): http://www.horrorfilmhistory.com/index.php?pageID=freaks\\n\\nIn Profile: Tod Browning\\u2019s Freaks: http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2015/04/in-profile-tod-brownings-freaks-1932/\\n\\nKing, Stephen. Danse Macabre. Berkley Books, 1981.\\n\\nLA Times Review: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-30/entertainment/ca-62791_1_freaks-movie-browning\\n\\nNussbaum, Emily. \\u201cThe New Abnormal.\\u201d The New Yorker, vol. 90, no. 39, 8 Dec. 2014. Questia.com, Tod Browning, Freaks.\\n\\nRead, Jacinda. "The Cult of Masculinity: From FanBoys to Academic Bad-Boys." Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste. Ed. Mark Jancovich, Antonio L\\xe1zaro Reboll, Julian Stringer, and Andy Willis. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. 54-70. Print.\\n\\nSandahl, Carrie. "Ahhhh Freak Out! Metaphors of Disability and Femaleness In Performance." Theatre Topics 9.1 (1999): 11-30. Print\\n\\nSkal, David J. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.\\n\\nWikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks'