Robin J. Hayes

Mahoganies: a Robin J. Hayes Podcast

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A film history podcast about the do's and don'ts of hit-making in Hollywood (spoiler alert: excluding women, LGBTQ, and BIPOC audiences costs the industry billions). Inspired by a classic Diana Ross film, this lighthearted pod was created by Dr. Robin J. Hayes -- an award-winning film producer (BLACK AND CUBA), author (THE ATLANTIC), and professor (Yale, Northwestern, and Williams). Each episode explores money-making takeaways from a film's idea-to-screen journey and the representation of a significant Black woman character ... or Mahogany.

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Robin J. Hayes

Episodes

Inside the Barbie Oscar Snub: Is Nicki Minaj to Blame? 03.02.2024 45:53

Hello, hello, hello, Moguls! Pull up to this opulent episode of the Mahoganies podcast and get into why the Oscars snubbed Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and the Barbie movie ... and what Nicki Minaj might have to do with it. Support Dr. Hayes's forthcoming film "Love for Liberation," which follows a Southern diplomat's daughter as she falls in love with an ex-inmate, transforms in...

Prince is Coming! 28.10.2023 2:06

"When the elevator tries to bring you down Go crazy!" The next series of episodes will dive into the cinematic opus of Prince -- the icon of style, music, and artistic integrity. Although many 80s and 90s babies are familiar with the classic Academy Award-winner Purple Rain , fewer know the camp classic Under the Cherry Moon or the visual album filmed on Prince's at-home Paisley Park...

Gerwig's BARBIE Gworls, the Bait-and-Switch of White Feminism, and Pink Dollar Power (Part II) 16.08.2023 44:34

Hello hello hello moguls! In this thrilling conclusion of the saga “Gerwig’s Barbie Gworls, the Bait-and-Switch of White Feminism, and Pink Dollar Power ,” writer and narrator Dr. Robin J. Hayes spills all the tea about Barbie, the top-grossing comedy ever . Might the film have missed out on another billion dollars at the box office due to its lukewarm reception among women and LGBTQ folk from the...

Gerwig's BARBIE Gworls, the Bait-and-Switch of White Feminism, and Pink Dollar Power (Part I) 15.08.2023 38:03

"Gerwig’s Barbie Gworls, the Bait-and-Switch of White Feminism, and Pink Dollar Power" is a two-part saga that uncovers this effervescent billion-dollar blockbuster's creation and controversial reception. It dives into critiques that the film courts yet fails to serve the Black, Latine, Asian, blue-collar, and LGBTQ audiences (or Gworls) that have passionately stanned for the Barbiec...

Hot Labor Summer and Why It's OK to Ask for Help 28.07.2023 23:33

In this very special episode of Mahoganies , Dr. Robin J. Hayes dives into Hot Labor Summer. For the first time in over six decades, Hollywood actors in the SAG-AFTRA union and screenwriters in the Writers Guild of America have joined the picket line simultaneously. By going on strike, they're squaring off against major film studios over living wages, the use of their likenesses in generative...

Indiana Jones and The Paradox of Nostalgia 18.07.2023 43:22

The multi-billion dollar streak of the legendary franchise, which was innovated by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, seems to have halted with its fifth installment Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny . We'll gather money making takeaways by analyzing the film's journey from idea to screen, as well as its efforts to bank on nostalgia while forging Gen Z's attachment to the Indiana J...