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🚨A new episode of Um, Actually launches today on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Featuring host Ify Nwadiwe, fact checker Brian David Gilbert, and guests Jay Washington, Austin Creed, and Fiona Nova!

Video description: Videoclip depiciting the game show "Um, Actually" discussing Anne Rice and her works on moody vampires interspersed with clips from the AMC+ TV show "Interview with the Vampire" with the characters (in order of appearance):  Claudia (@Bailey Bass ), Armand (Assad Zaman), Daniel Malloy (Luke Brandon Field and Eric Bogosian), Louis (Jacob Anderson), Lestat (Sam Reid).

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Made this while we were still editing our newest episode on a very dysfunctional family (procrastination? Never heard of it 😋) No hate to either show please! We're huge fans of both @Um Actually ☝️ of @Dropout.tv and Interview with the Vampire on @AMC+ But when I saw them mention Anne Rice, I couldn't resist editing this together. They scenes are from both seasons 1 and 2. Hope you like the clip and check out our podcast ❤️ LiliAnna's Preread Mediathek (wherever podcasts are found)

Show us your fangs! 🧛🏾‍♂️🧛🏾‍♀️🧛🏻‍♂️ 

[emojis for Man Vampire: Medium-Dark Skin Tone; Woman Vampire: Medium-Dark Skin Tone; Man Vampire: Light Skin Tone] 

This week we’re sinking our teeth into season 1 of AMC+’s ‘Interview With The Vampire’ 🩸⚰️🐀

[emojis for drop of blood, coffin, rat]

As the nights draw in and Autumn approaches, it’s the perfect time to dissect media’s most romanticised monster. Join us on our monster hunt, as we discuss how the show uses the unreliable narrator as a tool of adaptation, Black vampires and who gets to be ‘monstrous’ but also sympathetic, the power of storytelling from the margins, and of course, arguments for queer vampire divorce.

Come inside, we won’t bite… 🦇

[bat emoji]

Content Warnings: Domestic Violence, murder, blood, violence

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📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)

Primary Sources: 📺 Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (2022 - ) (cr. Rolin Jones) (AMC) 🎞️ Interview with the Vampire (1994) (dir. by Neil Jordan, wr. by Anne Rice) 📚 Interview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne Rice 📚 The Vampire Lestat (1985) by Anne Rice

Secondary Sources: 📰 Passey, Joan; Three essential tales of black vampirism (2022) (https://theconversation.com/three-essential-tales-of-black-vampirism-193157) 📰 Weimann, Robert; Text, Author-Function, and Appropriation in Modern Narrative: Toward a  Sociology of Representation (Critical Inquiry, Spring, 1988, Vol. 14, No. 3, The Sociology of Literature (Spring, 1988)) 📚 Sanders, Julie; Adaptation and Appropriation (2016) 📚 Butler; Octavia E.; Kindred (1979), Fledgling (2005) 📚 D’Arcy, Uriah Derick; The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo (1819)📚 Meyer, Stephenie; Twilight (2005) 📚 Shelley, Mary; Frankenstein (1818)📚 Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela; Der kleine Vampir (1979) 📼 Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice, & 150 Years of Gay Vampires by Matt Baume (https://youtu.be/z3g514OMXRc?si=UV7vlsbaXF6co0oF) 📼 Interview with the Vampire ~ Lost in Adaptation by Dominic Noble (https://youtu.be/Q8ypi5HPjLM?si=gLAt9mps1_oHYSji) 📼 Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) | It’s Lit by Storied (https://youtu.be/wefpgj0IqEA?si=bl-RYFoCpauMvA-p) 📼 The Racial and Romantic Politics of The Twilight Saga's Midnight Sun by Shanspeare (https://youtu.be/rocA3mDB_lw?si=uW522g8iAlhyDo9_) 📺 Kindred (2022) (cr. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) 📺 What We Do in the Shadows (2019 - ) (cr. Jermaine Clement) (FX) 🎞️ Barbie (2023) (dir. By Greta Gerwig, wr. By Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach) 🎞️ Twilight (2008) (dir. By Catherine Hardwicke) (wr. By Melissa Rosenberg)Recommendations:

Lili: 💿 Mustafa The Poet - Dunya (2024) Anna: 📚 We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by Shirley Jackson

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🎹Intromusic🎹: "Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)  

🎹Outro Music🎹: “Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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