• Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81.5: Romeo + Juliet — a Brief Film Guide

  • Sep 26 2024
  • Length: 37 mins
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Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81.5: Romeo + Juliet — a Brief Film Guide

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  • In this shortcast edition of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at BISR Central, BISR’s Rebecca Ariel Porte, Isi Litke, and Ajay Singh Chaudhary discuss Baz Luhrmann’s sensational 1996 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (or, in this case, Romeo + Juliet). Beginning with a brief literary and theatrical history of the play, Rebecca provides the conversation’s opening gambit: Shakespeare has never not been pop. The trio then, with a keen eye for detail, observes the many ways in which Luhrmann translates Shakespeare’s own pop-cultural tendencies into a medium and a style apropos of Venice Beach at the close of the millennium. Topics touched on include passions that threaten the social order, textual instability as adaptive possibility, intertextuality as production design strategy, teen drama as genre, teen-age as a time of emotional freedom, My So-Called Life, The O.C., Euphoria, spaghetti Westerns, police procedurals, Fredric Jameson on blank parody and endless pastiche, and much else besides.

    The Podcast for Social Research is produced by Ryan Lentini.
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