Blatant Misreading
Blatant Misreading is a podcast where we take academic and political theory somewhere it was never meant to go: popular culture. In each episode, hosts Margie Tang-Oxley and Aaron Posner analyse a movie or TV show with a piece of theory that is, at best, kind of misapplied. Of course we all want an analysis of class dynamics in "Parasite," but we'll leave something that makes that much sense to the pros! We'll be over here applying Noam Chomsky to "Paddington 2."
Blatant Misreading
Episode 2 - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Can the Subaltern Speak?
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Episode 2
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 between Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas? Is Wonka paying them for their labor? Can the Western and global proletariat ever understand each other? What would a podcast hosted by Oompa Loompas be like? When did Tim Burton start phoning it in and making bad movies? We discuss all this....and more!