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The Projectionist's Lending Library
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Two literary scholars discuss great (and some not-great) books and their adaptations.
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05. Gore Vidal and MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
Jun 5, 202201:45:15Tap to summarizeGuest Carl Watts joins us to discuss Gore Vidal's troubling novel Myra Breckinridge. Check out Carl's book I Just Wrote This Five Minutes Ago, newly out from Gordon Hill Press In light of the ongoing attacks on trans communities throughout the US and the world, we would like to direct listeners to the GLAAD transgender resource page: https://www.glaad.org/transgender/resources Further Reading: Blanchard, Sessi Kuwabara. "In Defense of the Trans Villainess." Booth, Nathanael Thomas. "The Queer Utopianism of Myra Breckinridge." Utopian Studies, vol. 32 no. 2, 2021, p. 167-185. Diffrient, David Scott. ""Hard to Handle": Camp Criticism, Trash-Film Reception, and the Transgressive Pleasures of Myra Breckinridge." Cinema Journal, vol. 52 no. 2, 2013, p. 46-70. Hoare, Liam. "Was Gore Vidal the Real Crypto-Nazi?" YouTube Links: Raquel Welch discusses Myra Breckinridge: Blatant: a stage production inspired by Myra Breckinridge Christine Jorgensen at UCLA Mae West at UCLA
Transcribe →04. Patricia Highsmith and THE PRICE OF SALT/CAROL
May 8, 202201:40:21Tap to summarizeIn 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: <em>Carol</Em> 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
Transcribe →02. Christopher Isherwood and THE BERLIN STORIES Part II: I AM A CAMERA and CABARET
Feb 14, 202201:17:13Tap to summarizeIn part II of our inaugural episode, we discuss I am a Camera and Cabaret and the changes they rang on Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories
Transcribe →01. Christopher Isherwood and THE BERLIN STORIES Part I
Feb 13, 202201:19:23Tap to summarizeWelcome to the Projectionist's Lending Library. In this episode, we discuss The Berlin Stories, which were later adapted as I am a Camera and Cabaret.
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