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In this podcast Richard Rushton, Catherine Spooner, DebraFerreday and Zoe Crombie from the School of Arts, Lancaster University discuss The Devil Wears Prada 2 - Directed byDavid Frankel.

Welcome to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.   This podcast explores nostalgic espionage, spy films and TV shows that look back at the previous century of spying on screen through lenses both restorative and reflective.   On this episode, Vincent is joined by academic researcher and lecturer, Dr Janine Engelbrecht, to discuss  Female Agents  (2008).   Referen...

Welcome to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.   This podcast explores nostalgic espionage, looking closely at spy films and TV shows that themselves look back at the previous century of spying on screen.   In this episode, Vincent is joined by film critic, podcaster and filmmaker Matthew Stogdon, to discuss Flame & Citron.   References   Matthew can be fou...

Welcome to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast explores nostalgic espionage, looking closely at spy films and TV shows that themselves look back at the previous century of spying on screen.     In this episode, Vincent is joined by two guests. In the first half of the episode, Vincent discusses  The Debt  (2007) with filmmaker and academic Isaa...

Welcome to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast explores nostalgic espionage, looking closely at spy films and TV shows that themselves look back at the previous century of spying on screen.     In this episode, Vincent is joined by podcaster Matthew Thornley to discuss the remarkable true story that is  Charlie Wilson’s War  (2007).     Referen...

A discussion between Kamilla Elliott, Debra Ferreday,Richard Rushton and Catherine Spooner from the School of Arts, Lancaster University.

Welcome back to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast explores nostalgic espionage, looking closely at spy films and TV shows that themselves look back at the previous century of spying on screen.     In this episode, Vincent is joined by film critic and podcaster James Rodrigues to discuss Paul Verhoeven’s  Black Book  (2006).     References   F...

Welcome back to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast explores nostalgic espionage, looking closely at spy films and TV shows that themselves look back at the previous century of spying.     In this episode, Vincent is joined by Dr Westley Barnes to discuss the Oscar-winning GDR-set  The Lives of Others  (2006).     References   Follow Westley he...

Welcome back to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast looks at nostalgic espionage, spy films and TV shows from now that are about then.     In this episode, Vincent is joined by Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly to discuss Robert De Niro’s  The Good Shepherd  (2006).     The episode does include sound clips that feature offensive language.     References  ...

A discussion between Richard Rushton and Zoe Crombie from the School of Arts, Lancaster University, on Joachim Trier’s 2025 film, Sentimental Value.

Welcome back to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast looks at nostalgic espionage, spy films and TV shows from now that are about then.     In this episode, Vincent is joined (again) by podcaster and critic Sergio Angelini to discuss the first film in the nostalgic espionage sub-genre,  The Quiet American  (2002).     References   Boym, Svetlana...

A discussion between Alison Findlay, Richard Rushton and Vincent Gaine from the School of Arts, Lancaster University, on Chloé Zhao's 2025 film, Hamnet

Welcome to the first episode of The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses, a podcast by Dr Vincent M. Gaine.     This podcast looks at nostalgic espionage, spy films and TV shows from now that are about then.     The show is produced by Dr Vincent M. Gaine for the Cultures Research Centre at Lancaster University.     In this first episode, Vincent is joined by podcaster and critic Sergio Angelini to d...

In this first episode Maryam Ghorbankarimi and Richard Rushton discuss Iranian filmmaker Asgar Farhadi's 'A Hero'. Find out more about studying Media and Film at Lancaster University at https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts/