The show bringing you political commentary on entertainment media from the perpetual Sunday of suburban ennui. Hosted by Livvy Sutherland and Ruben Traynor.
Shows every other Sunday.
Months Of Sundays
Claim This Podcastby Ruben Traynor&Livvy Sutherland
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The show bringing you political commentary on entertainment media from the perpetual Sunday of suburban ennui. Hosted by Livvy Sutherland and Ruben Traynor. Shows every other Sunday.
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September 19, 2021
Chasing Bleak Highs: Postmodernism to Nihilism in Heathers (1989) and Point Break (1991)
<p>'This'll be the kind of thing to infect a generation! It'll be a Woodstock for the 80s!' / 'If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.'</p> <p>What have a classic high school satire and a camp action film got in common? Sex and death, of course! We explore late 80s /early 90s ennui as the breeding ground of films that both examine and encapsulate postmodernist depthlessness, chasing the only high left at the end of history: the end of life. In Heathers, would-be school-shooters seek stimulation in callous suburbia, while Point Break positions the endless chasing of the next wave as a hedonistic alternative to the dull bureaucracy of a hollowed-out state. But thrill-seeking is a pastime with an expiration date...</p>
May 16, 2021
Freudian Dreams to Postmodernist Nightmares: the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise (1984-94)
<p>'It's only a dream!'</p> <p><br></p> <p>A Nightmare on Elm Street, and its iconic villain Freddy Kruger, has been a cultural staple since Wes Craven's original film in 1984. Since then, there have been six more films in the decade-long series, all the way up to the postmodern malaise of 1994. From the Freudian modernism of the 80s films, through the carbon-copy unoriginality in the middle of the series, up to the postmodern reflexivity of the last two films, the films trace a familiar pattern, and one which charts wider cultural shifts around this time. We ask how the first two films defy gender expectations and subvert already familiar slasher tropes. We delve into how these films represent dreams, and how far they can be understood as relating to Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. Is Freddy a phantom of the death drive, or a paradoxical creature of wish fulfilment? Finally, we analyse the nineties films' self-awareness, and what this means for our own dreams, desires and, indeed, nightmares.</p>
May 2, 2021
Emotional Affect and the Hyperreal: Nathan For You and 'Hidden' Camera Comedy
<p>'You're filming something. That's kind of the purpose, right?' </p> <p>From the dizzy heights of Borat (2006) and Jackass (2002), to the pandemic-inflected How to With John Wilson (2020), Bad Trip (2020) and slightly disappointing Borat 2 (2020), the twenty-first-century can't get enough of comedy that blends reality and the scripted. Perhaps the most successful of these productions is Nathan For You (2013-17), the show where Nathan Fielder uses his 'knowledge to help struggling small business owners make it in this competitive world', blending cringe-comedy and reality TV to create a light-hearted but prickly satire on American business and media culture. But with its final episode, 'Finding Frances' (2017), Nathan For You pulls us into a newly touching realm, where the line between construction and reality is thinner than ever. How does our fixation with the authentic reflect on our culture of constant performance, where social media makes us all into hidden-camera comedians? Is a 'New Sincerity' possible, in film as in literature, as the culmination of artifice? And if something moves us, perhaps even moves us to change our world, does its authenticity matter?</p>
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