Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Tracie Guy-Decker & Emily Guy Birken
117 episodes
1 day ago
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We're releasing this episode (108) four days early in honor of Halloween! There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. In December 1996, teenaged Emily learned to love horror movies when she saw Wes Craven's Scream in the theater. Twice. Unlike most pop culture specifically created for her demographic, Scream offered feminism, cultural commentary, badass women as protagonist...
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We're releasing this episode (108) four days early in honor of Halloween! There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. In December 1996, teenaged Emily learned to love horror movies when she saw Wes Craven's Scream in the theater. Twice. Unlike most pop culture specifically created for her demographic, Scream offered feminism, cultural commentary, badass women as protagonist...
The Truman Show: Deep Thoughts About Narcissism, Product Placement, and Parasocial Pop Culture
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
51 minutes
1 month ago
The Truman Show: Deep Thoughts About Narcissism, Product Placement, and Parasocial Pop Culture
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. And if I don't see you: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night! Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show, based on a screenplay by Andrew Niccol and starring Jim Carrey, was praised for its pop culture prescience because it came out just before the explosion of reality television. But as Emily argues on this episode, that cultural commentary misses the point. Reality TV may be the storytelling backdrop of The Truman Show...
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We're releasing this episode (108) four days early in honor of Halloween! There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. In December 1996, teenaged Emily learned to love horror movies when she saw Wes Craven's Scream in the theater. Twice. Unlike most pop culture specifically created for her demographic, Scream offered feminism, cultural commentary, badass women as protagonist...
