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Trailer | No Straight Lines

Preview: Season 24 Episode 6 | 30s  | Video has closed captioning.

When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American culture. From DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance, meet five smart and funny queer comics artists whose uncensored commentary left no topic untouched and explored art as a tool for social change.

Aired: 01/23/23

Rating: NR

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Reinventing Cinematic Language

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Reinventing Cinematic Language

d/Deaf filmmaker Alison O'Daniel talks about how her experimental documentary The Tuba Thieves shows how listening can become a form of storytelling and new ways of playing with film and captioning for Hearing and hard-of-hearing audiences alike.

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