106: Christine and Kate Plays Christine: Reviving Christine Chubbuck - a podcast by Seventh Row

We discuss Christine and Kate Plays Christine, a fiction and documentary film about Christine Chubbuck. We ask, what's the value of telling a story in fiction versus nonfiction? This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest Lena Wilson.

On this episode:

• Subjective realities (2:34)
• Why we paired these films and the Christine Chubbuck story (5:18)
• The mid-2010s trend of men making movies about how bad men oppress women (10:04)
• Christine (15:16)
• Rebecca Hall's performance (21:50)
• The strange questions the film asks (30:50)
• The Florida perspective (35:03)
• The 1970s (38:35)
• Kate Plays Christine (41:36)
• The film's ending (59:52)
• Blame on authorship and viewership (1:07:51)
• Conclusion (1:19:19)

Show Notes

• Purchase Subjective realities: The art of creative nonfiction film for more on Robert Greene, the casting conceit in creative nonfiction, and much more.
• Purchase tickets for August 29th's livestream conversation between Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine, Bisbee ‘17) and Joe Bini (editor of twenty-seven Werner Herzog films).
• Read Alex's interview with Penny Lane about Nuts!
• Read Miriam Bale's essay in The New Republic on Christine and Kate Plays Christine

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• Ep. 67: Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris and City Hall (Member's Only)
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