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04.04 John Williams and BUTCHER'S CROSSING (1960, 2022)
In 1865—or perhaps it was 1833—Horace Greeley gave the famous advice to “go west, young man, and grow up with the country.” He said it in print—or to a young acquaintance—like most legends of the American West, the details are vague. All the same, over the course of the 19th Century many young men answered his call. One of them was Will Andrews, the protagonist of the novel we will be discussing today. Will is a young man, fresh out of college, with more dollars than sense, looking to discover himself in the great untamed territory of the West. What he finds might be too much for him as he faces thirst, blizzards, torrential rivers. He goes out a boy; if he’s lucky enough to survive, he might just return a man. Today, on The Projectionist’s Lending Library, it’s Butcher’sCrossing.From Booth's recommendations, here's the Pillar of Garbage video on Brick.
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04.03 Annie Proulx, Ang Lee, and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (1997, 2005)
Just in time for Pride Month, we are joined by Jennie Lightweis-Goff to talk about Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and the 2005 movie based on it. Please note that, of all our episodes, this one earns its "explicit" tag with a frank discussion of sex and hate crimes.High in the mountains, anything can happen. Men, separated from society, find themselves seeking comfort in each other. For Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, one fateful night on Brokeback Mountain transforms into a tragic passion that will dominate the lives of both men until death—and beyond. Today, on The Projectionist’s Lending Library, we look at Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” and the movie based on it. When all is said and done, is the only thing left to us just this—to endure it? Is there any comfort to be found in even the most tragic of stories? And what, really, is the significance of beans? Happy Pride Month, everyone. Keep on keeping on.Check out Accented Cinema's video on Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman.
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10. Franz Kafka's THE METAMORPHOSIS (1915) and Cronenberg's THE FLY (1986) (RE-UPLOAD)
It's spooky season! In their October episode, Nathanael and Erik discuss the figurative and literal body horror seen in Kafka's absurdist novella THE METAMORPHOSIS and Cronenberg's visceral cult classic THE FLY.
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04. Patricia Highsmith and THE PRICE OF SALT/CAROL (RE-UPLOAD)
In this episode we discuss Patricia Highsmith's landmark lesbian novel The Price of Salt as well as its 2015 film adaptation.Works Cited:Hesford, Victoria. “Patriotic Perversions: Patricia Highsmith’s Queer Vision of Cold War America in ‘The Price of Salt’, ‘The Blunderer’, and ‘Deep Water.’” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3/4, 2005, pp. 215–33, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004425.James, Jenny M. "Maternal Failures, Queer Futures: Reading The Price of Salt (1952) and Carol (2015) against Their Grain." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 24 no. 2, 2018, p. 291-314. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/696683.Perrin, Tom. “Rebuilding ‘Bildung’: The Middlebrow Novel of Aesthetic Education in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 44, no. 3, 2011, pp. 382–401, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41289263.White, Patricia. “Sketchy Lesbians: Carol as History and Fantasy.” Film Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 2, 2015, pp. 8–18, https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2015.69.2.8.Seitz, Matt Zoller. “Directors of the Decade No. 9: The Sensualists.” Salon, 17 Dec. 2009, https://www.salon.com/2009/12/17/sensualists_seitz/.Interview with Phyllis Nagy: https://youtu.be/xSX7hqKIw7k
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11. John Ball and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (RE-UPLOAD)
Will Murray joins Erik and Nathanael to discuss John Ball's novel In the Heat of the Night and the 1967 movie based on it. Join us as we discuss the idea of the American South as branding and as scapegoat, interrogate the limits of generic forms, and answer the question of whether In the Heat of the Night is a feel-good movie.[Production note: there are some issues with sound here and there in the episode; we don't think this detracts from the overall flow of the discussion]
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