Hi everyone! Today we welcome professor, writer, and poet Melissa Tuckman to the study group. First we read pages 37-38 which are, as with last week’s excerpt, truly horrifying. Take heed. Then we jump into the prism and explore the idea of an intertext, which is simply a work which relates in some way to another work. We look at scenes in Coens’ movies where a character or the film itself quotes or evokes another text. This could be a classic work of literature, a folk song, or a 50s Hollywood biblical epic. It’s the same old Coens, but with different meanings since these texts came along. Hope you enjoy this episode; it goes places.

Coens Covered: Meal Ticket; Inside Llewyn Davis; Hail, Caesar!

Plus: Slaughterhouse Five, *Cat’s Cradle, Ben Hur, Quo Vadis

ERRATA: *In the first act of the show Jordan refers to Breakfast of Champions but is actually talking about Cat’s Cradle. He misintertextimated and regrets the error.