e384. From Vanderbilt Glam to Oscar’s Shades: The Gilded Age Deep Dive

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We’ve all had a discussion or an argument about popular culture. Sometimes it happens on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Maybe it was in a literature, history, philosophy or psychology class in college. Perhaps it was at the local comic book shop. Or maybe it was at a bar and you ended up stabbing someone with a bottle or bludgeoning them with a pool cue. All of these discussions are exactly the same. The tenured professor at an academic conference deconstructing Batman through a Derrida lens is really doing the same thing as a bunch of teenagers passing a joint around in their mother’s basement. One just uses bigger words and the other swears more. Honestly, though, we’re not sure which. So why not bring them all together? Vox Populorum is a blog and podcast devoted to pop culture criticism. We believe that the best way to understand culture is to discuss it. Please join our weekly round table of media critics, academics and fans for engaging discussion about movies, novels, comic bo

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e384. From Vanderbilt Glam to Oscar’s Shades: The Gilded Age Deep Dive

The VoxPopcast

3 months ago

e384. From Vanderbilt Glam to Oscar’s Shades: The Gilded Age Deep Dive

In 2022, a show premiered on HBO that was perhaps tailor made for us. The Gilded Age was a 1880s period drama from the creators of Downton Abbey with sexual and gender politics, racial dynamics and a treatise on the invention of class dynamics, all thrown together with a collection of Broadway’s finest actors in some absolutely fantabulous period costumes. Hannah and Monica immediately started planning an episode. That was three years ago. We’re just getting to it now. But that’s perfect, because last week was the season 3 finale and so that just means we have plenty to talk about! So on this episode, we welcome back friend of the show Josh Stroud, so that he Hannah, and Monica can introduce Mav to the Gilded Age and we can discuss what makes the show work and not work. Whether you’ve seen the show or not, listen and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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