Castle Talk: The Teen Agers: Katharine Coldiron on Why We Are Obsessed With Old, Disposable Movie

Tonight we’re chatting with Katharine Coldiron, who’s just published a piece of criticism called Intentionally Disposable Art: The Teen Agers Films in the film crit site Vague Visages. Katharine Coldiron is the author of the 2020 book Ceremonials and a forthcoming piece on Plan 9 from Outer Space. Her work as a book critic has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, NPR, and elsewhere; her work as a film critic has appeared in Bitch, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Video Librarian. She earned an MA in creative writing from California State University, Northridge, and a BA in film studies and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College. Find her at kcoldiron.com. So your subject is the teenagers series which you take a deep look at but it's also really a sort of focal point around which you spin this series of thoughts about the accidental permanence of art. .Find the article here: https://vaguevisages.com/2021/04/27/intentionally-disposable-art-the-teen-agers-films/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.