Episode 128. The Feral Feminine: Cat People (1942)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Coming to you live from Salem Horror Fest, Andrea and Alex prowl the darkest corners of RKO’s cult classic Cat People. From the themes of immigration and assimilation to the parallels of sex and power, we uncover how Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton’s dark vision of 1940s America remains a prescient warning. REQUIRED READING Cat People. […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Oh, uh, Hi everyone welcome back to the faculty of horror
0:58.8	podcasting from Salem Horror Fest Live.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:05.0	I'm Alex West and...
1:09.0	And...
1:10.0	Andrea Subbasati, who has a voice.
1:12.0	I have something of a voice. We have been having a blast
1:15.0	here in Salem this weekend and there have been two major highlights thus
1:17.8	far. One, Alex's opening speech, how many of you were here for that?
1:22.8	Wasn't that incredible?
1:24.2	And do you remember when Kaye made us all scream?
1:31.4	I needed that so bad and it was so healing but it's destroyed my voice but I'm okay with it
1:36.2	it's fine and the second grade thing was last night we went out had a couple of
1:42.1	drinks and we see a bachelorette party go by and there's this
1:47.0	beautiful bride and Oliver bridesmaids and they're having a great time and
1:51.2	Alex don't do it completely sober I was so
1:56.2	sober harassing people on the streets of Salem is usually my gig so there's a bit of
2:01.8	an inversion going on this year yeah yeah hey sound guy can I get a
2:06.6	thumbs up if you remember to turn on the machine you're so good but everyone. Welcome, how'd you like cat people?
2:15.1	Was that anyone's first time seeing it? Yeah. Oh wow! So many first timers and we feel good about gender. We feel good about like
2:28.0	the power dynamics and relationships and yeah. Wow, like this is one of my favorite movies.
2:35.0	And it was something that like my mom really, really loves classic movies.
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