Episode 17 – The Isle is Full of Noises

Abstract: In this seventeenth episode Karin and Elizabeth discuss the academic essay ‘‘The Isle Is Full Of Noises’: Revisiting The Peter Pan Of Pop’, which Elizabeth wrote in 2014, while researching and writing The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Read More …

Episode 4 – Michael Jackson and Monochromatic Cinematography

Abstract: In this episode Elizabeth and Karin talk about the function of black and white (monochrome/chiaroscuro) cinematography in the short films, Bad (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1987) and Stranger in Moscow (dir. Nicholas Brandt, 1996). Taking their academic essays on two of Jackson’s most monochromatic short films as source Read More …

An Interview with Willa Stillwater

Abstract: This interview is part of our ongoing coverage of unique and dynamic authors who have written compelling monographs about Michael Jackson. In it, Willa Stillwater, author of M Poetica: Michael Jackson’s Art of Connection and Defiance, discusses her process and her research. REFERENCE AS:  Read More …

Episode 3 – What is Michael Jackson Studies?

Abstract: In this third episode, Karin and Elizabeth talk about what Michael Jackson Studies is. Going through a wide range of references, they explain how the simple act of ‘Michaeling’ became an area of academic study in its own right. The podcast also discusses the pioneers who started this academic Read More …