Marx Miniseries...the finale!! We're wrapping up our Marxist journey with an analysis of the clearly Marxist cartoon Bob's Burgers. We look into the Belchers' life under the tyranny of a brutal landlord and at the mercy of the free market. Tha
We’re getting old, baby! Episode 14, our PENULTIMATE episode in the Marx miniseries covers The Old Guard, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2020 graphic novel action movie. We're joined by guest Jasper Saah.Join us as we trot around the globe with a team
This is the first part of the fourth episode in our Marx mini series where we dive into the Communist Manifesto, and it's our first ever DOUBLE EPISODE! That’s right we’re tackling Spike Lee’s 1989 movie Do the Right Thing and we had so much to
This is the second part of the fourth episode in our Marx mini series where we dive into the Communist Manifesto, and it's our first ever DOUBLE EPISODE! That’s right we’re tackling Spike Lee’s 1989 movie Do the Right Thing and we had so much t
This is the third episode of our Marx miniseries, where we spend multiple episodes diving into Marx's most famous work: The Communist Manifesto. This episode we're talking about Honky Chateau, Elton John's best selling album which features hits
This episode is the second in our Marx miniseries, where we spend multiple episodes diving into Marx's most famous work, The Communist Manifesto. This time we address the aggressively mediocre movie, Rent (2005).Rent is based on the musical Ren
Welcome to Full Communism! This episode is the first in our Marx miniseries, where we spend multiple episodes diving into Marx's most famous work, The Communist Manifesto. This time around we're tackling Ratatouille, the 2007 hit from Pixar.Is
This is our first Patreon suggested topic! In this episode we look at the POS movie Shark Tale with Judith Butler's Performative Acts and Gender Constitution. This movie was a shitstorm of bad gender and sexuality analogies. Questions we'll tr
In this episode we eat lunchables in honor of our school days and analyze the classic movie, Richard Linklater's School of Rock (starring Jack Black) through the lens of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. We're l
In this episode we drink beer, eat too many donuts and talk about the Springfield nuclear power plant through the lens of Gene Rochlin’s article “Defining ‘High Reliability’ Organizations in Practice".In our first nighttime episode we're realiz
This week we ask: who would win in a car race, Vin Diesel or James Joyce?That’s right, in this episode we explore the implications of modernist conceptions of automobiles in the Fate of the Furious, the eighth movie in the Fast and Furious univ
It's Disney's socially conscious animated flick! We're analyzing Zootopia with Kimberle Crenshaw's Theory of Intersectionality.What is this movie about? Is it really crucial dialogue, or does it make no sense at all? Why does Judy insist on bei
In this episode we discuss Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Season 5 Episode 1 of Queer Eye. We first take a look at an interpretation the cave as a description of queer representation in media versus actual modern day queer spaces and dialog
On this episode we're looking at the anime Aggretsuko with Virginia Woolf's seminal feminist essay "A Room of One's Own."Is Retsuko, the titular red panda, a prime example of a Woolf's ideas? Has having a room of her own helped her to succeed?
Today we're analyzing the world of Willy Wonka with Gayatri Spivak's postcolonial essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" We'll be discussing both the 1971 and the 2005 films, as well as peppering in some mentions of the book.What's the relationship b
Today we will be analyzing Season 5, Episode 22 of Seinfeld, "The Opposite", with Michael Allingham's book A Very Short Introduction to Choice Theory. Joining as a guest for this episode is Blatant Misreading's very own producer, Josie Baker.Wh