About this episode

The episode discusses Christopher Nolan's interpretation of The Odyssey and its cultural significance.

We're back from our Summer Break™ with an episode about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. It's not easy to tackle the zeitgeistiness of a poem that's been circulating for thousands of years, but leave it up to Hannah and Marcelle to try anyway. In this episode, we chat about the creation of Homeric epics, authorship, the cultural force of the so-called Western Canon, and the fluidity of The Odyssey as a culture text in and of itself. *** To learn more about Material Girls, head to our Instagram at  instagram.com/ohwitchplease!  Or check out our website  ohwitchplease.ca . We'll be back next week with a Material Concerns episode! Material Girls is a show that makes 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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Hannah, Marcelle

Topics covered

• Homeric epics
• authorship
• Western Canon
• cultural critique
• fluidity of texts

Keywords

• The Odyssey
• Homeric epics
• cultural critique
• Western Canon
• authorship
• zeitgeist

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Witch, Please Productions, Learning for Justice

Books & works: The Odyssey

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