Jurassic Park x Spectacle

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Vanessa Zoltan, Arts, Harry Potter, Books, Aubrey Gordon, Hannah Mcgregor, Pop Culture, Cultural Cricism, Society & Culture, Feminism, Witch Please, Marcelle Kosman, Tv & Film, Fantasy, Not Sorry

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah and Marcelle discuss what made Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) the ultimate CGI summer blockbuster, the history of American spectacle, and the monstrosity of the movie's out-of-control lady dinosaurs! Hannah leads this episode and if you're left wanting more, we have great news: their forthcoming book, Clever Girl: Jurassic Park, is available for preorder right now! Clever Girl "is a smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free." Classic Hannah!!!!

And do you want even better news? The whole Witch, Please Productions team is gathering this October to celebrate Hannah's book at Coach's beloved childhood bookstore, Women & Children First! Join us on October 11th at 7 pm CST to hear Hannah in conversation with Marcelle about Clever Girl! We want to see you! Come join us!

Clever Girl: https://ecwpress.com/products/clever-girl-jurassic-park-pop-classics

Save the Date: https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/person-event-clever-girl-hannah-mcgregor

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Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.

*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone just before we get started with today's episode I wanted to let you know
0:08.8	that my co-host of Hot and Botherd, Vanessa Zoltan and I, are doing a live show.
0:18.0	Isn't that right, Vanessa?
0:20.0	Yes, Hannah. We are going to Seattle, Washington. We are going to do a live show where I hope that we see
0:27.5	hot and bothered listeners, but also many, many material girl listeners.
0:31.4	I hope so too. For those who don't know hot and
0:34.4	bothered is our show where we watch romance movies and analyze them and for this
0:40.1	live episode we are going to be analyzing Notting Hill, which is 25 years old this year.
0:47.8	It can rent a car.
0:49.7	So if you want to hear us talk about Hugh Grant's floppy hair, how many smiles Julia Roberts has,
0:56.4	and everything else in between, getting just those two things.
1:03.0	Then you should join us on Sunday, September 8th
1:07.2	at the Ballard homestead.
1:09.5	You can buy tickets at not Storyworks.com and we'd love to see you there we really
1:15.2	would we really really would Oh. I need a new mind, a new brain.
1:33.0	I want to take a ride on a mini train you can have it all
1:48.7	at the shopping now Hello and theory to understand the zeitgeist. I'm Marcel Kossman and I'm Hannah McGregor. This week I am violently
2:09.0	resting control over the podcast for nefarious purposes, which is that I'm shamelessly promoting my forthcoming book
2:17.0	Clever Girl Colin Jurassic Park available for pre-order now.
2:21.4	Oh boy Hannah I'm so excited for your new book, but are we talking about it today and the
2:27.1	podcast? Because I haven't read it yet, because as you just said, it's not, it's forthcoming.
2:32.0	It's not, it's not coming in, it's not forthcoming. It's not it's not coming in it's not came.
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