The Zeitgeist Tapes

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  • Where politics and pop culture collide. Every month journalist Emma Burnell and Professor Steve Fielding discuss the way politics is interpreted through popular culture.
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Politics & Government Social Sciences
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  • 1984 (1954)

    1984 (1954)
    Dec 23 2024
    This month instead of getting festive, Emma and Steve round off the year looking at the 1954 BBC adaptation of 1984. A dystopian tale of hopelessness and the triumph of evil.

    Merry Christmas!


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    35 mins
  • The Contender

    The Contender
    Nov 14 2024
    This month - in the wake of the US election and the defeat of Kamala Harris - Steve and Emma look at The Contender (2000).

    This is a film that is posited as a liberal feel-good film about making a woman the Vice President under unusual circumstances. It might be 'of its time' or it might be - as Emma argues - a timeless liberal man's idea of what a feminist film looks like.
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    34 mins
  • Running on Empty

    Running on Empty
    Aug 4 2024
    In this episode Emma and Steve discuss 1988 film Running on Empty. Described by Steve as a 'Hallmark film for terrorists' the film follows the Pope family as the evade the police living in suburban domestic bliss - but only for short periods at a time.

    Directed by Sidney Lumet and starring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsh, Christine Lahti and Martha Plimpton this film combines a discuss of radical politics with a more traditional coming of age family drama.

    Link to the New York Times article discussed: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/18/movies/film-view-sentimentalizing-60-s-radicalism.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U0.Se0R.62RNH6uMNg0H&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

    Link to the Dirty Dancing episode discussed: https://audioboom.com/posts/6941048-dirty-podding
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    36 mins

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