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Essays on Carrie: Part 3 “Harvesting the Celebrity Interface”

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In part 3 of our series covering the anthology “Our Blessed Rebel Queen”, we look at Andrew Kemp-Wilcox’s essay, “Harvesting the Celebrity Interface: Carrie Fisher, Virtual Performance, and Software Stars”. The essay covers the topics of digital performance, online persona, the concept of the “software celebrity”, and consumerism. We continue analyzing our relationship to Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher: How we have been consumers of her image and persona and how we have projected ourselves onto her. We talk through these topics and our own ever-changing relationship with constructed images and celebrity. Click here to download the episode directly.

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Essays on Carrie: Part 2 “Gatekeeping the Past”

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Caitlin and Charlotte continue their multi-part series discussing essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia from “Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia,” edited by Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk. This episode covers the essay “Gatekeeping the Past: Fandom and the Gendered Cultural Memory of Star Wars” by Philipp Dominik Keidl. On the episode: More talk of commodification, “participatory historical culture,” cultural memory and fandom, traditional gatekeepers, Star Wars as “a boy’s thing,” the “fake geek girl” trope, personal reflections of our own fandom experience, and much more. Click here to download the episode directly.

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Essays on Carrie: Part 1 “Who Owns Carrie Fisher?”

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Caitlin and Charlotte begin a multi-part series discussing essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia from “Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia,” edited by Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk. In this episode, we discuss “Who Owns Carrie Fisher? A complicated embodiment of manufactured commodity and avatar of resistance.” by Jennifer M. Fogel. Topics include commodification, identity, gender, parasocial relationships, body image, feminism, the golden bikini outfit, and much more. Please take care as this episode handles some heavy topics referenced above. Click here to download the episode directly.

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Skytalkers: Rebels 3.11 & Our Favorite Princess

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Join us for our second official episode of Skytalkers to talk about the latest episode of Star Wars Rebels, the two part #3.11 “Ghosts of Geonosis.” Caitlin and Charlotte talk about what we loved about this Rogue One-connection-filled episode and what we are excited about for the future of the show. We’re talkin’ that rudimentary Death Star drawing, Click Clack, Saw, and that amazing sand line.

The latter half of the show takes the opportunity to talk about our favorite Princess, Carrie Fisher, and do our best to memorialize our memory of her. We discuss the recently aired HBO documentary “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” and share some of our favorite memories from Carrie’s life. The Force will be with Carrie, always.