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Horror movie history book – “The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film” (Centipede Press, 2018) – Lee Gambin interview

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Lee Gambin has been writing about movies and especially horror movies for the last 15 years. We spoke about his latest book on the famous werewolf horror movie “The Howling.”

0:49 – Lee talks about how he got into studying and writing on “The Howling.” He really loved seeing a movie about a community of werewolves. He tried finding writings on the Howling and coulnd’t find any so was inspired to write on it.

5:11 – Lee talks about his writing career progressed.

7:45 – Lee goes into details on what the book is like.

11:05 – Lee discusses an interesting discovery made about “The Howling.”

24:30 – Lee talks about Bob Burns and his direction.

29:20 – Lee talks about some costume issues that the cast dealt with.

38:34 – Lee writes for Fangoria and Diabolique.

Links of interest

http://www.centipedepress.com/studieshorror/howling.html

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Guests: Lee Gambin

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: author, werewolf, werewolves, monster movies, 80s movies, movie history

Artificial Intelligence academic – “How Smart Machines Think” (MIT Press, 2018) – Sean Gerrish interview

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Sean Gerrish is a software engineer and has worked as an engineer for Teza Technologies and as an engineering manager for machine learning and data science teams at Google. We spoke about his latest book on machine learning. Sean’s comments in this interview reflect his views and not necessarily those of his employers.

0:41 – Sean talks about how he got into studying machine learning.

2:26 – Sean talks about the book and how it’s broken down. He touches on self-driving cars, IBM’s Watson, and machines that can play Atari games and so on.

4:31 – Sean talks about the most difficult concepts for people to understand.

6:51 – Sean talks about what intelligence in machines is.

12:01 – Sean talks about machine learning and the future of robots that can think for themselves.

15:39 – Sean talks about the large amount of labor needed to create machines that learn.

18:53 – Sean talks about AI and the marketplace.

24:01 – Sean talks about how he did the research for the book.

28:46 – Sean talks about a problem he grappled with in the research.

32:02 – The book has a sci-fi related Easter egg.

39:16 – Sean can be found on twitter @seannyg, and he writes frequently on Quora.

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Guests: Sean Gerrish

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Netflix, Watson, Atari, machine learning, intelligent machines, robots, bladerunner

 

Latin American horror movies – “The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez interview

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Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez teaches Spanish and Latin American studies at the New School in Atlanta, GA. We spoke about his latest book on the politics of Latin American horror films.

1:04 – Gabriel talks about how he got into studying horror and monstrosity. He discusses the kind of horror cinema that can be found in Colombia and which he was exposed to.

Colombians have always been interested in things from other cultures.

6:12 – Mexico is a powerhouse as far as producing entertainment in Latin America. Gabriel then talks about the book. He has studied the subtle politics behind horror films. He’s looked at movies from the 90s to 2017. He’s also looked at a range from Guillermo del Toro to more cult type films.

13:14 – He compares and contrasts monstrosity in film between Latin America and the US and Europe.

17:11 – Gabriel contrasts the influence of European and Asian immigrants to indigenous peoples on Latin horror films.

19:50 – Gabriel talks about Andean horror made most often in Peru and Bolivia.

23:43 – Gabriel talks about he approached the research for this book.

33:42 – Gabriel was surprised to see how political many Latin American horror films are.

46:44 – He has a page on Academia.edu. He’s also involved with a website that discusses Latin American Gothic. {Note – the website address is different from what Gabriel stated. It’s https://latinamericangothic.wordpress.com/}

 

Links of interest

https://latinamericangothic.wordpress.com/

https://gabrieleljaiekrodriguez.academia.edu/

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Guests: Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: horror, Colombia, Latin American film, Guillermo del Toro, Mexico, Buenos Aires, festivals, Vampires in Havana