SUBTEXT Literature and Film Podcast

A podcast by Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh - Mondays

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102 Episodes

  1. Trauma and Repetition in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” (1974)

    Published: 2/13/2023
  2. Better and Bested in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

    Published: 1/16/2023
  3. Pagan Poetics in “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

    Published: 12/19/2022
  4. Production for Use in “His Girl Friday”

    Published: 11/21/2022
  5. Post-Doctoral Bedevilment in Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus”

    Published: 10/24/2022
  6. Fate and Blame in “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

    Published: 9/26/2022
  7. Work as Madness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)

    Published: 5/9/2022
  8. What Falls Upon the Living in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

    Published: 4/11/2022
  9. Finding Home in Stephen Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982)

    Published: 3/14/2022
  10. The Power of Calm: Two Wordsworth Sonnets

    Published: 2/28/2022
  11. What Nature Betrays: Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (Part 2)

    Published: 2/14/2022
  12. Mother Nature’s Nurture in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (Part 1)

    Published: 1/31/2022
  13. The Fool Gets Hurt in Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954)

    Published: 1/17/2022
  14. False Roles and Fictitious Selves in “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

    Published: 1/3/2022
  15. (post)script: Post-Wonderful

    Published: 12/27/2021
  16. The Pain of Anonymity in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)

    Published: 12/20/2021
  17. (post)script: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas Movie?

    Published: 12/13/2021
  18. Attachments “Die Hard” at Nakatomi Tower

    Published: 12/6/2021
  19. Mad as Hell in “Network” (1976)

    Published: 11/22/2021
  20. Autonomy and Incest in Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex”

    Published: 11/8/2021

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SUBTEXT is a podcast about the human condition, and what we can learn about it from the greatest inventions of the human imagination: fiction, film, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh explore life’s big questions by conducting a close reading of a text or film and co-writing an audio essay about it in real time.