10 Things I Hate About You

Hot and Bothered

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Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet at Padua High School to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered, all about 10 Things I Hate About You – our first movie in our high school adaptations series.

This week we discuss Kat's feminism, why Shakespeare is in 'the canon,' and the American high school formula. We finish the episode with an interview with Rebecca Hixon about her scholarship on Taming of the Shrew adaptations.

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0:00.0	Hello, lovely listeners. I am hopping in today to tell you about three upcoming pilgrimages that we have in 2025.
0:10.2	The first is an Anne of Green Gables pilgrimage through the theme of friendship on Prince Edward Island with Casper Terkyle.
0:19.0	The second is a Remains of the Day pilgrimage in the Cotswolds in
0:23.9	England with the great Dana Schwartz. And lastly, we have a writing retreat in conversation with
0:31.3	the great Mary Oliver in Montana. Three different countries coming to you this summer.
0:38.6	You can find out more about all of them by going to reading and walking with.com.
0:50.8	Today we're starting our new movie theme. high school films that are adaptations of classic literature.
1:00.0	Specific, yes, but there are actually a lot of movies that fulfill this title.
1:05.0	The one we're going to start with is the 1999 work of genius, Ten Things I Hate About You.
1:12.4	Ten Things was written by writing duo Karen McCullough and Kristen Smith, who were inspired to write it after watching Clueless, which we'll be tackling later in this series.
1:23.6	When Clueless came out in 1995, high school movies had been popular for over 10 years, with 16 candles often being considered the first.
1:34.4	The success of American high school set movies were flooding the market.
1:40.0	By 1999, the year of 10 Things, the genre was getting spun around higher and higher concepts
1:47.3	in order to stay relevant.
1:49.8	1999 alone had varsity blues, high school and football, American Pie, High School and Ranch,
1:58.7	October Sky, High School, and coal mining.
2:02.8	All with their own love stories as well.
2:06.4	Not to mention that Dawson's Creek was in its heyday in 1999.
2:12.1	High schoolers were being overrepresented as a population on screen, and so high school itself was coming to mean more than
2:20.4	itself. The site of high school was no longer trying to capture something true about the teenage
2:26.4	experience. But instead, it was a setting to explore all sorts of concepts. The American high school became the equivalent of the Georgian drawing room, or the High Court of Elizabethan, England, a place where life happens.
2:44.4	McCullough and Smith settled on Taming of the Shrew as their source text for their contribution into the growing subgenre of high school movies based on classic literature.
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