Episode 201 – Poor Things

We’re taking a closer look at Alasdair Gray and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things! Join us as we discuss socialism, the novel’s ties to Scottish history, and how something can be a great piece of art but a poor adaptation.

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

“Making up for Lost Time”: Scotland, Stories, and the Self in Alasdair Gray’s “Poor Things” by Donald P. Kaczvinsky

Insatiable Curiosity: The Real Politics of Poor Things by Mike Small

Thought ‘Poor Things’ was weird? The novel is, too — in a good way. by Michael Dirda

The Voyeuristic Faux-Feminism of Poor Things by Luke Weidemoyer

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde (PDF link)

‘She’s bound and gagged for laughs’: is Poor Things a feminist masterpiece – or an offensive male sex fantasy? by Jess Cartner-Morley

Deviance and the Aesthetic Schema: A Queer(ed) Somaesthetic Analysis of “Poor Things” by Kei Graves

The Baffling Discourse around “Poor Things” by DoctorOfCinema

Viewing Poor Things Through the Eyes of the Feminist Canon by Nicole Fox

How to Build a Feminist by verilybitchie

Poor Things & Alasdair Gray’s Legacy from Ossian

I Loved “Barbie” and “Poor Things” but Neither Film Is a Feminist Masterpiece by Jun Chou

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