A Conversation with Karina Longworth

Consortium director Karen Tongson’s talk with Karina Longworth, a writer, film historian and podcaster, who is also the creator, producer and host of You Must Remember This, a podcast on the secret and forgotten history of 20th Century Hollywood. Longworth is the author of four books, most recently Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood (Custom House, 2018).The two spoke about transposing archival and cultural studies research into audio series for general audiences, while exploring the links between archival labor, gender, and the different genres and formats through which research finds its expression. Sponsored by USC’s Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Public Culture with the Levan Institute for the Humanities.