The Symbolic Salvation of Superheroes
Superheroes have been a cultural staple for a century and, while entertaining, can prove to be symbolic salvation in the face of personal, social, and existential crises.
This is what I go over in this months ShoBooVie episode, with the nostalgic miniseries “WandaVision,” the GOAT superhero movie “The Dark Knight,” and Alan Moore’s gritty graphic novel classic “Watchmen.”
The Oppression of “Beauty”
What society defines as being "beautiful"can have devastating results if you don't fit the mold of that paradigm, and can also have more far-reaching social, racial, and political repercussions.
This is what I go over in this month's ShoBooVie ep, with the iconic"Eye of the Beholder" episode of "The Twilight Zone," Toni Morrison's tragic "The Bluest Eye," and the subversive body horror flick "The Substance" serving as our show/book/movie combo this time around. Give it a watch, hope you dig it!
The “Otherness” of Vampires
Vampires have been a cultural staple for legit over a century now. That's due to the fact that, of course, they're super spooky, but also because they've historically been used as metaphors for what a society deems as a dangerous "other" at a given time in history.
This is what I go over in this month's ShoBooVie ep, with the raunchy "True Blood," archetypal "Dracula," and cult classic "The Lost Boys" serving as our show/book/movie combo this time around. Give it a watch, hope you dig it!
The Submission of Free Will
“Our first ever episode of ShoBooVie (woohoo!) dives into dystopias, and how some specialize in duping society into a voluntary submission of free will. Representing this ep’s themes will be ‘Severance’ from the TV front, ‘A Brave New World’ from literature, and, of course, the most frightening cinematic dystopia ever, ‘Walle’.
The “Otherness” of Vampires
Vampires have been a cultural staple for legit over a century now. That's due to the fact that, of course, they're super spooky, but also because they've historically been used as metaphors for what a society deems as a dangerous "other" at a given time in history.
This is what I go over in this month's ShoBooVie ep, with the raunchy "True Blood," archetypal "Dracula," and cult classic "The Lost Boys" serving as our show/book/movie combo this time around. Give it a watch, hope you dig it!
