The Last of Us x Adaptation Theory

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

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we're talking about the HBO series The Last of Us, which was adapted from the popular video game of the same name! If you like the show, zombie content, playing video games, or thinking about how art gets transcoded across mediums, then this episode is for you! AND if you don't know what transcoding means, then this episode will really knock your socks off because Marcelle does a great job defining the word — as well as adaptation itself! Together, Hannah and Marcelle consider the process of adaptation and the intertextuality between original content and its adaptation(s). Of course, for all you Last of Us fans, they also talk about Long, Long Time — aka the Bill and Frank episode. And without spoilers!

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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	Oh, hi everyone, Marcel here.
0:06.0	Before today's episode, I want to tell you about a new show that we are loving at which please productions.
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1:38.0	At the showbe.
1:40.0	Hello and welcome to material girls a pop culture
1:47.1	podcast that uses critical theory to understand the zeitgeist. I'm Hannah
1:52.1	McGregor and I'm Marcel Cosman.
1:55.0	This week we're talking about a hugely popular television adaptation of a hugely popular video game.
2:03.0	So to get warmed up, Hannah, I want you to tell me about one or some of your favorite adaptations.
2:12.0	Oh man, Marcel, so many of the things that I love are
2:15.0	adaptations. You know what I was thinking about recently and always and constantly is
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