Ep. 23: Heartbreak Ridge (1986) with Laurie R. Lambert

Look alive, ladies (complimentary)! Today we're digging into Clint Eastwood's 1986 war...comedy(?) HEARTBREAK RIDGE with Laurie R. Lambert, associate professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University and author of the book Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution. We talk about the film's extremely casual engagement with the facts of the 1983 American invasion of Grenada, consider its failure as a satire, if that's even what it's trying to do, and heap a lot of praise on Damani Baker's excellent documentary THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD. Check it out!

Topics include: whether this is Clint doing STRIPES, misogyny and homophobia as essential parts of masculinity, reference points for the population and size of Grenada, favorite plants, Cuba's foreign policy both real and imagined, Mario Van Peebles, relatedly JAWS: THE REVENGE, and more!

Read more of Professor Lambert's work: https://www.laurierlambert.com/

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