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Slate Culture

Allegory! Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dana Stevens and Stephen Metcalf discuss the new film mother! with Slate's Jack Hamilton, Ken Burns Vietnam documentary series with Willa Paskin, and the art of theme park caricatures with producer Benjamin Frisch. It's pledge season! Join Slate Plus today as part of the Slate Plus promo drive! Sign up at Slate.com/cultureplus. The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by the Platinum Card from American Express. There’s a world of experiences waiting to open up with the Platinum Card. Backed by the services and security of American Express. And by Care.com. Care.com is the largest digital marketplace for care for everyone in the family—find nannies, sitters, housekeepers, dog walkers, and more. To save 30% off a Care.com Premium membership— visit Care.com/CULTURE when you subscribe. And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses. Get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by going to Casper.com/Culture and using the promo code Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.8

The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen Medkap and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest

1:28.6

Allegory Edition on today's show Mother is the new new and who boy is a controversial movie from director Darren Arunofsky.

1:37.0

I cannot, I don't think I've ever Dana Stevens wanted to discuss a movie more with you.

1:42.0

I cannot wait to dig into this one. And then the

1:45.1

Vietnam War is a new and very ambitious multi-part documentary on PBS. It's from

1:49.8

the director Ken Burns, most to a well-known I believe still for his Civil War documentary he

1:54.2

co-created and directed this with Lynn Novick I cannot wait to talk about this too

1:58.6

and finally our own and very beloved producer I am ready to confer the title, Befop upon him, best friend of the program,

2:07.0

is also an accomplished comic book graphic novel writer.

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