The Haunted Screen

The Haunted Screen is an antifascist project using film, history, and experimental storytelling to understand our authoritarian present. The first season—"From Caligari to Hitler"—investigates the chaotic, creative world of Weimar Germany. New episodes are tackling new topics.

The Haunted Screen is a tv podcast hosted by Travis Mushett, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Travis Mushett hosts The Haunted Screen, a tv show with 13 episodes published.

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  Today's (Still) Fascist. Tomorrow Doesn't Gotta Be: The Paxton Mixtape, Pt. II

  Jul 16, 20262h 30m

  The second and final installment of a series on why the country is indeed fascist, how we got that way, and what comes next. Listen to Part I first. (Or not. Whatever you want. Do I look like a fascist??) See you at the Great Hague Tailgate of 2029. Appearances from a truckload of future history-book villains, a 17-minute Minneapolis montage, and an extended shark metaphor. Time to pick up the harpoons, y'all.

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  Making a Martyr, From Horst Wessel to Charlie Kirk

  Sep 26, 202539 minS0

  <p>After the assassination of the right-wing organizer and influencer Charlie Kirk, MAGA has fallen all over itself to turn him into a movement martyr. But this isn't the first time fascists have sought to canonize a flawed man and use his memory for their own dark purposes. Meet Horst Wessel, a slain Nazi brownshirt who Joseph Goebbels elevated to national sainthood and cynically crafted into a Party marketing campaign.</p>

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  Yeah, Y'all—This is Fascism: The Paxton Mixtape, Pt. I

  Aug 11, 20251h 29mS0

  <p>We knew it would be bad, but holy shit.</p><p>With the collapse of the American project, it's been hard to focus on film history. So in this two-part series, we're switching things up. Using the five-stage framework that scholar Robert Paxton lays out in his Anatomy of Fascism, we try to make sense of how a slack-jawed game show host groped his way to autocracy. Part One covers fascism's first three stages, from the creation of a fascist movement through its seizure of power. The next episode will look at the fourth and fifth stages—where we're at...

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  Cinema Oblivion: Lost Films, Haunted Histories

  Jan 31, 202540 minS0

  <p>As many as 90% of silent movies are lost to the ages, and many from later eras have vanished as well. How do these holes distort the story of film? This week: reel infernos, missing monsters, Jerry Lewis'... Auschwitz clown debacle, and a little hauntology as a treat.</p>

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  A New Year, A New Orlok: Nosferatu vs. Nosferatu

  Jan 7, 20251h 10mS0

  <p>Robert Eggers' new version of Nosferatu is an absolute horror show in the best way possible. With Orlok Fever sweeping the nation, we're taking the opportunity to repost a 2022 episode on F.W. Murnau's century-old original. <br/><br/>Travis also offers his take on the Eggers adaptation. He promises not to read it as a political allegory, then promptly does so anyway.</p>

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