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 11 - Marx Mini Series: Rent (The Movie)
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Episode 11
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 Rent which is based on the opera La Boheme. So we're talking bohemians, gentrification and who is really the proletariat. Joining us in this episode is friend and producer of the podcast, Josie Baker.