What makes Film Noir different from a crime thriller? Why did Blaxploitation emerge when it did? How did German Expressionism shape American cinema for decades to come? Cinema Scope is a monthly podcast that takes one genre, subgenre, movement, or mode per episode and examines it in depth—tracing how it emerged, what defines it, and what it left behind on the cinematic family tree.
Each episode, Andy Nelson hosts a specialist guest—a film historian, academic, or critic with genuine expertise in that territory—for a conversation grounded in a specific set of films and the larger forces that produced them. In production since 2024, Cinema Scope is a growing archive of deep-dive conversations covering styles from across the full history of cinema. New episodes drop monthly during the season. Subscribe today and explore the full archive at Cinema Scope on TruStory FM.
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