The Notebook x Melodrama with Vanessa Zoltan | Material Girls

Hot and Bothered

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Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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We have a special treat for you today! Vanessa recently guested on Hannah's other pop-culture podcast, Material Girls, to talk about The Notebook with Hannah and Marcelle. It was so good, we wanted to make sure you knew about it.

And if you love hearing Vanessa, Hannah, and Marcelle in conversation – good news, there's another episode out there! Vanessa was on Material Girls last year to talk about Bridgerton.

Material Girls Episode Description:

She's back! Beloved podcaster and author Vanessa Zoltan (she/her) joins Hannah and Marcelle to dig into one of the most famous "weepies" of the 21st century: The Notebook (2004). If you cry at the line "If you're a bird, I'm a bird," have the phrase "What do you want?" ringing in your head, or regularly view the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, then this episode is for you. Hannah first contextualizes The Notebook in early aughts America (think post 9/11 conservative politics) and Vanessa offers some info about Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook. They then jump into a theory section all about melodrama! You may be familiar with the concept — perhaps you've even accused a friend or family member of being melodramatic — but can you really define it? What about the idea of "a Melodrama of Failure?" Hannah turns to Elisabeth Robin Anker’s book, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom, to bolster her thesis and the episode ends with a conversation about the relationship between the American Dream, sovereignty, Christian conservatism and heterosexuality.

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1:05.0	Hey, hot and bothered listeners. Thanks for tuning into this Material Girls episode that's been dropped into your feed.
1:14.7	As you probably know by now, Material Girls is the pop culture podcast I, Hannah McGregor,
1:21.2	co-host with my dear friend and brilliant scholar Marcel Cosman.
1:25.5	Our episodes use theory to understand the zeitgeist, and sometimes we have fabulous guests on,
1:32.1	guests like Hot and Bothered's very own Vanessa Zoltan.
1:37.4	In a real hanging out with your best friend from childhood and your best friend from college
1:41.7	and hoping it works out maneuver.
1:48.4	Vanessa Marcel and I recorded an episode about The Notebook.
1:53.3	If you enjoy the episode, please be sure to check out Material Girls wherever you get your podcasts.
1:54.4	You can also look in the show notes for more info and to find the link to our previous
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