Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Kat Spada invites you to listen in on entertaining and stimulating conversations about films, games, and TV... from the latest blockbusters to classic hidden gems, and more. With special guests bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all—including media critics, entertainers, academics, and everyone in between—Feminist Frequency Radio is there to help you dig deeper into the things you love. Warning: Feminist Frequency Radio may significantly enhance your media experience. Created by Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency ran as an organization from 2009–2023, providing video commentaries exploring gender representations, myths, and messages in popular culture media. Now, host Kat Spada continues Feminist Frequency Radio's legacy as an independent podcast, with fun new conversations about entertainment that asks you to be critical of the media you love.
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episode 112: FFR 112: Little Women with special guest Laura Hudson
Laura Hudson, writer and friend of the podcast, joins Anita and Carolyn this week for our discussion of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, the latest adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. The film has earned several Oscar nominations, but conspicuously missing is a Best Director nomination for Gerwig herself. Join us as we discuss how this retelling of March sisters’ story brings up questions of class, race, and what a 151-year old novel has to tell us about the issues and obstacles still faced by women today.
Time Stamps:
1:52 - Getting to know special guest Laura Hudson
6:42 - Main Discussion on Little Women
39:04 - What’s Your Freq Out?
- Carolyn on Watchmen (HBO)
- Laura on Kentucky Route Zero
- Anita on The Spy (Netflix)
Links Mentioned:
- Jennifer E Morrow tweet on Little Women - twitter.com/jenniferemorrow/status/1210386224537645057
- “Greta Gerwig on the Lives of Little Women And Why ‘Male Violence’ Isn’t All That Matters” by Greta Gerwig, Vanity Fair, January 11, 2020 - https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/greta-gerwig-little-women-script
- “A Melancholy Journey Through the Lost American Dream: Kentucky Route Zero perfectly captures quiet economic desperation.” by Laura Hudson, Slate, August 16, 2016 - https://slate.com/technology/2016/08/kentucky-route-zero-reviewed-a-perfect-depiction-of-quiet-economic-desperation.html
- Feminist Frequency Twitch - twitch.com/femfreq
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