Midsommar (2019) | Episode #11

2019-12-31

In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2019 film Midsommar. Episode Highlights: Katherine discusses the problems of generic classification, Anthony shares his appreciation of Florence Pugh's performance, and we debate how the film changes depending on whether it is a horror film or just a really dark coming-of-age story. A Dose of Scholarship: To learn more about the trickiness of generic classification, you cannot go wrong with texts like Stephen King's Danse Macabre or Noel Carroll's The Ph...

In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2019 film Midsommar.

Episode Highlights: Katherine discusses the problems of generic classification, Anthony shares his appreciation of Florence Pugh's performance, and we debate how the film changes depending on whether it is a horror film or just a really dark coming-of-age story.

A Dose of Scholarship: To learn more about the trickiness of generic classification, you cannot go wrong with texts like Stephen King's Danse Macabre or Noel Carroll's The Philosophy of Horror.

This podcast episode first aired on December 31, 2019

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