Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)

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Wide Atlantic Weird

Cian

147 episodes

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Wide Atlantic Weird: an Irish podcast about why people believe weird things. Now defunct, enjoy these episodes of investigating the world of the strange, remaining critical, not cynical. And enjoy the final episodes under the guise of the Lost Valley podcast too!

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Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)

Wide Atlantic Weird

1 hour 7 minutes 22 seconds

2 years ago

Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)

Lauren the Gothic Bookworm opens the tomb of maybe-classic The Mummy from 1999 as we discuss action movie tropes, Orientalism in Hollywood, the golden age of Egyptology in the popular imagination, and Arnold Vosloo. Digressions include:

-The horror-centric directions the film almost went in

-The lure of the ‘golden age of Egyptology’ in Western storytelling

-Creative use of dodgy CGI

-The mummy as an Indiana Jones clone, and Orientalism in lost race fiction

-Inconsistent geography in the movie

LINKS

-the gothic bookworm on Twitter

-Mummy Mania Mondays on Twitter

-The Anatomy Shelf on Twitter

-International Society For The Study of Egyptomania