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."
Episodes
16 episodes
Episode 15 - Marx Mini Series: Bob's Burgers
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. ...
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Episode 15
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37:31
Episode 14 - Marx Mini Series: The Old Guard
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 wit...
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Episode 14
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43:50
Episode 13 - Marx Mini Series: Do The Right Thing pt. 2
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...
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Episode 13
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36:27
Episode 13 - Marx Mini Series: Do the Right Thing pt. 1
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...
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Episode 13
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31:05
Episode 12 - Marx Mini Series: Honky Chateau
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...
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Episode 12
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51:53
Episode 11 - Marx Mini Series: Rent (The Movie)
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 mus...
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Episode 11
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59:13
Episode 10 - Marx Mini Series: Ratatouille
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.
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46:35
Episode 9 - Shark Tale and Judith Butler
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. Ques...
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43:50
Episode 8 - School of Rock and Foucault's Discipline and Punish
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 t...
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Episode 8
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43:50
Episode 7 - The Simpsons and High Reliability Organization Theory
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'r...
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Episode 7
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43:50
Episode 6 - The Fate of the Furious and Traffic, Gender, Modernism
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 Furio...
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Episode 6
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48:52
Episode 5 - Zootopia and Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
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 insis...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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50:18
Episode 4 - Queer Eye and Allegory of the Cave
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...
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52:23
Episode 3 - Aggretsuko and A Room of One's Own
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 s...
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Episode 3
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57:47
Episode 2 - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Can the Subaltern Speak?
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 relati...
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Episode 2
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Episode 1 - Seinfeld and Choice Theory
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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