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Welcome to Lies Agreed Upon, the podcast that looks at how film and television use history to talk about today.  I’m Lia Paradis And I’m Brian Crim.  We’re historians who watch way too much film and TV. And ever since graduate school whenever we see stuff that is set in the past we can’t helpContinue reading “Episode 4: When We Were Terrorists”

Welcome to Lies Agreed Upon, the podcast that looks at how film and television use history to talk about today.  My name is Lia Paradis And my name is Brian Crim.  We’re historians who watch way too much film and television. And whenever stuff is set in the past we can’t help but notice thatContinue reading “Episode 3: Fourth Estate Under Siege”

Episode Two Podcast Welcome to Lies Agreed Upon, the podcast that looks at how film and television use history to talk about today.  My name is Lia Paradis And my name is Brian Crim.  We’re historians who watch a lot of movies and TV.  And whenever stuff is set in the past, we can’t helpContinue reading “Episode 2: How did we get here?”

Episode One Podcast The three movies we cover in this episode are: Ridley Scott’s 2005 Crusade saga  – Kingdom of Heaven; Oliver Stone’s 2004 bio-pic – Alexander; and Zach Snyder’s 2006 extravaganza – 300. We decided to start with these because they all fall into a classic Hollywood genre: the sword and sandals epics. WhatContinue reading “Episode 1: Go East Young Men”

Lia Paradis and Brian Crim met at Rutgers University in the late ’90s as graduate students in the History Ph.D. program. She studied all things British Empire and Brian went even darker by focusing on 20th century Germany and the Holocaust. While they loved talking history and politics, Lia and Brian discovered a shared love of pop cultureContinue reading “About Us”