Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

113 Episodes

1. The Power of Calm: Two Wordsworth Sonnets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/8/2021
12. Gender Opera in “Tootsie”

    Published: 10/25/2021
13. Our Name is Subtext, Podcast of Podcasts. Hear our “Ozymandias” Discussion, Ye Listeners, and Despair!

    Published: 10/11/2021
14. Sex and Tech in “Alien” by Ridley Scott

    Published: 9/27/2021
15. Dead Wall Reveries in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”

    Published: 9/13/2021
16. Cursed Kids or Psych-Au Pair? “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

    Published: 8/30/2021
17. Gentility and Injustice in “Gone with the Wind” (1939)

    Published: 8/16/2021
18. Realism as Cruelty in “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams

    Published: 8/2/2021
19. Prestidigitocracy in “The Wizard of Oz” (1939)

    Published: 7/19/2021
20. Formulated Phrases in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot: Part 2

    Published: 7/5/2021