EPISODE · Jun 5, 2022 · 1H 45M
05. Gore Vidal and MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
from The Projectionist's Lending Library · host The Projectionist's Lending Library
Guest Carl Watts joins us to discuss Gore Vidal's troubling novel Myra Breckinridge. Check out Carl's book I Just Wrote This Five Minutes Ago, newly out from Gordon Hill Press In light of the ongoing attacks on trans communities throughout the US and the world, we would like to direct listeners to the GLAAD transgender resource page: https://www.glaad.org/transgender/resources Further Reading: Blanchard, Sessi Kuwabara. "In Defense of the Trans Villainess." Booth, Nathanael Thomas. "The Queer Utopianism of Myra Breckinridge." Utopian Studies, vol. 32 no. 2, 2021, p. 167-185. Diffrient, David Scott. ""Hard to Handle": Camp Criticism, Trash-Film Reception, and the Transgressive Pleasures of Myra Breckinridge." Cinema Journal, vol. 52 no. 2, 2013, p. 46-70. Hoare, Liam. "Was Gore Vidal the Real Crypto-Nazi?" YouTube Links: Raquel Welch discusses Myra Breckinridge: Blatant: a stage production inspired by Myra Breckinridge Christine Jorgensen at UCLA Mae West at UCLA
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Guest Carl Watts joins us to discuss Gore Vidal's troubling novel Myra Breckinridge. Check out Carl's book I Just Wrote This Five Minutes Ago, newly out from Gordon Hill Press In light of the ongoing attacks on trans communities throughout the US and the world, we would like to direct listeners to the GLAAD transgender resource page: https://www.glaad.org/transgender/resources Further Reading: Blanchard, Sessi Kuwabara. "In Defense of the Trans Villainess." Booth, Nathanael Thomas. "The Queer Utopianism of Myra Breckinridge." Utopian Studies, vol. 32 no. 2, 2021, p. 167-185. Diffrient, David Scott. ""Hard to Handle": Camp Criticism, Trash-Film Reception, and the Transgressive Pleasures of Myra Breckinridge." Cinema Journal, vol. 52 no. 2, 2013, p. 46-70. Hoare, Liam. "Was Gore Vidal the Real Crypto-Nazi?" YouTube Links: Raquel Welch discusses Myra Breckinridge: Blatant: a stage production inspired by Myra Breckinridge Christine Jorgensen at UCLA Mae West at UCLA
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