45 min

Pop Goes the Culture (feat. Dr. Lilly Goren‪)‬ Poli Sigh

    • Social Sciences

We zone out with Netflix, HBO, etc. to get away from politics, right? But where is the line between political and apolitical?To close off season 2, we hear from Professor Lilly Goren about the relationship between popular culture and politics. We cover examples across television, cinema, and literature to illuminate what political themes we often consume in our everyday lives without even realizing. We work through themes of nostalgia, gender construction, and “the anti-hero” to begin conside...

We zone out with Netflix, HBO, etc. to get away from politics, right? But where is the line between political and apolitical?To close off season 2, we hear from Professor Lilly Goren about the relationship between popular culture and politics. We cover examples across television, cinema, and literature to illuminate what political themes we often consume in our everyday lives without even realizing. We work through themes of nostalgia, gender construction, and “the anti-hero” to begin conside...

45 min