{"podcast":{"title":"SciFrights","slug":"scifrights-7217802","podcast_index_feed_id":7217802,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/scifrights/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/scifrights/20250210_090220_020d33c6de4462034230804e7444db6c.png","author":"Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam","episode_count":20,"summary":"SciFrights – a movie podcast from the Interzone where horror meets science fiction. In each episode hosts Liam Dunn and Dr Lindsay Hallam will explore a theme through two films, one horror and one science fiction. They will discuss the place of the film within the history of the genre, the ways the film employs genre tropes and style, and analyse the film’s historical context and social commentary.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scifrights-7217802"},"episode":{"title":"Kathryn Bigelow: Near Dark (1987) and Strange Days (1995)","slug":"kathryn-bigelow-near-dark-1987-and-strange-days-1995","published_at":"2026-05-26T23:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scifrights-7217802/kathryn-bigelow-near-dark-1987-and-strange-days-1995","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scifrights-7217802","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/2856994","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/315885/2856994/scifrights/2026_05_25_21_47_04_6450f030-02e0-4077-bd81-5f870e907c4d.mp3","summary":"Continuing our new season on Director Double Bills, in this episode we focus on action auteur Kathryn Bigelow, exploring her 1987 vampire Western NEAR DARK (31: 57) and the 1995 cyberpunk tech-noir STRANGE DAYS (1:39:15). Joining us today to discuss these films is an incredible guest, author and academic, Professor Stacey Abbott, who wrote the BFI Classic on NEAR DARK. ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** We highly recommend checking out Stacey's book on NEAR DARK: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/near-dark-9781911239291/ SciFrights is hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at scifrightspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd","meta_description":"Continuing our new season on Director Double Bills, in this episode we focus on action auteur Kathryn Bigelow, exploring her 1987 vampire Western NEAR DAR…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10000,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scifrights-7217802/episodes/kathryn-bigelow-near-dark-1987-and-strange-days-1995/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scifrights-7217802/kathryn-bigelow-near-dark-1987-and-strange-days-1995.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}