Episode 13: Classism in Film with Tosha R. Taylor

Description

There's a plethora of "eat the rich" films these days, films that relish in showing the wealthy suffer without, god forbid, rocking the status quo. My guest today is Tosha R. Taylor is quite skeptical of the trend. Tosha R. Taylor is a writer, former academic, and regularly publishes and presents on horror, extremity, and queerness.

We talk about the history of class in cinema, the invisibility of class issues in the majority of films, hillbilly horror, and Tosha picks some of her favorite class-conscious horror films.

Show Notes:

Tosha R. Taylor's twitter

Tosha R. Taylor on academia.edu

Films:

Lumiere Brothers – Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895)

Battleship Potemkin (available on YouTube) (1925)

Man With A Movie Camera (available on YouTube) (1929)

Bicycle Thieves (available on YouTube) (1948)

American Hollow (available on YouTube) (1999)

Harlan County USA (available on YouTube) (1978)

Blood on the Mountain (available on YouTube) (2016)

Saltburn (2023)