Advance Access: Shabcast 40 with Christine Kelley
Because you're special, you get to hear the latest Shabcast - my occasional solo podcast series - a week before everyone else. In a break from recent tradition, this time I'm not talking to Kit Power about his new book even though he does have a new book out as usual. Devastating news? Well, it would be except that instead I'm talking to the unfeasibly and annoyingly talented Christine Kelley, writer of the brilliant Dreams of Orgonon blog and all-round starburst of interestingness. Nominally our conversation is about Alien and The Shining, movies to which we both indefinitely rent cranial real estate, but you'll find we range pretty freely from topic to topic as you'd expect from Eruditorum Press people. Our topics include Mckellen's Richard III, Julie Taymor's Titus, Branagh's Hamlet, and even a few things that aren't Shakespeare movies. Enjoy.
Comments (3)
Really really enjoyed that.... a few thoughts a) I think you're being a little unfair on 'Aliens', esp re. not being politically satirical - I don't prefer it to 'Alien' either, btw.... b) in terms of the 'morphology' of the Alien, its species' intertwining.... I think that creeps into 'Alien 3' partly through the backdoor crassness of the 'Aliens' toyline (Gorilla Aliens, Crocodile Aliens etc), unless I've got my dates wrong... c) the "Kane's son" thing lends a pleasant resonance to the largely imaginary but bizarrely compelling 'Beowulf' throughline/template of the Alien Trilogy.
The Shabcast had turned into a Kit Power promotional vehicle so gradually that this came as a shock.
I'm not just shocked, I'm appalled, frankly.