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Faculty of Horror

Episode 68. House Proud: Mother! (2017)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Andrea and Alex break down the foundational elements of Darren Aronofsky’s divisive mother! From authorship to ecofeminism to sink instillation, few stones are left unturned or unexamined. REQUIRED READING mother! Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2017. EXTRA CREDIT What is Ecofeminism? An overview of the term that rose to prominence in the 1970s. The Death of […]

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0:00.0

The Oh, The Oh, Hi. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

0:57.4

Podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea Suvis Saddy.

1:03.0

Did you almost write me here?

1:05.0

I was like, Mother!

1:07.0

Alex West and Mother here.

1:10.0

I am Mother.

1:11.0

Well, I am there, we've got mother on the brain and it's December 2018 and as it's the holiday season we like to pick a film that has to do with

1:25.6

togetherness, poignant religious times I'd say. I feel like those kind of go hand in hand with our choices for at this time of year on for the

1:36.8

last six years.

1:38.6

Six years.

1:39.6

Six years.

1:40.6

Cheepers. Yep.

1:41.6

So yeah, this one came about from you guys because Andrea and I both saw this film the end of last year. We both really responded to it so much so that we both mentioned it in our best of 2017 that we recorded in January 2018 and we got a lot of

1:56.1

strong responses to this film so we wanted to dedicate a whole episode to it.

2:01.5

Yeah why not?

2:03.5

And you know, it's an interesting film.

2:06.0

It's an interesting film to experience.

2:08.7

It's an even more boggling film to really take apart. that's what we're going to get into.

2:15.2

Yeah, I honestly I don't I'm not sure entirely how I feel I mean I was on board with

2:20.8

doing this episode just because the response was so strong.

2:23.7

People have been mentioning it all year, when are you going to talk about it?

2:26.2

Are you going to talk about it?

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