BiblioFiles: A CenterForLit Podcast about Great Books, Great Ideas, and the Great Conversation

In this episode of BiblioFiles: At the Movies, Emily takes a shot at defending a work of responsive art. Thus far the CenterForLit crew has said that a good film adaptation at least echoes the themes of the original, but what happens when a director uses a story to say something different from the author?

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Missy takes centerstage in this episode of BiblioFiles to discuss what is arguably the best film adaptation of all time: the 1962 rendition of To Kill a Mockingbird. The crew discusses what makes this classic so great, and takes a chance to hash out the differences between the mediums of novel and film.

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The discourse around Amazon’s Rings of Power has been fraught. So in this special crossover episode between Close Reads and BiblioFiles, David Kern and Ian Andrews try to figure out what works, what doesn’t, and why the conversation has been they way it is.

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Adam compares notes on the 1974 and 2013 adaptations of The Great Gatsby. Then the CenterForLit crew considers whether or not a director has a responsibility to stay faithful to the text, and the extent to which a classic story can be effectively updated for contemporary audiences.

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Megan is first in the hot seat to give us her rankings of three Little Women film adaptations. We talk about the relative values of the different movies and, to our own peril, discuss whether or not it’s possible to improve on a work of literature without doing violence to it.

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BiblioFiles is back! In the first episode of our new season, the CenterForLit crew sits down to wrap their heads around what makes a good film adaptation. What distinguishes the mediums of film and literature? And what does a movie version need to do to appease the angry mob of book lovers?

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Ian and Emily tease the upcoming season of BiblioFiles, set to begin airing on Friday August 26th. We’ll be talking all about the process of adapting books for the big screen: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Surprise! We’re jumping into your podcast feed with a special bonus episode this week. Ian recently interviewed Leslie and Carey Bustard, the masterminds behind the recently published essay collection, Wild Things and Castles in the Sky: A Guide to Choosing the Best Books for Children from Square Halo Books. Leslie and Carey talk about their vision for encouraging others to share God’s kingdom in all of its beautiful variety with the children in their lives through good books and thoughtful reading.

Visit their website to get a hold of this beautiful book (which includes an essay from our very own Missy Andrews!) for yourself.

(P.S. Watch out next week for a special announcement about our upcoming second season!)

Learn more about Leslie and Carey, and Square Halo Books:

– https://www.squarehalobooks.com/

– Carey Bustard on Instagram @taxicab

– Cultivating Project Online Journal

– Story Warren

– Poetic Underpinnings

– Calla Press

– The Square Halo Podcast

– Anselm Society

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The CenterForLit crew wraps up our first official season of the new and improved BiblioFiles with a look back at where we’ve been. We talk about the relationship between questions and answers in literature, and how that relationship influences the way we approach contemporary works of art. Be sure to stay tuned to the end to find out what you can expect from season 2!

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Referenced Works:

– The Buried Giant and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

– Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

– The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

– Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

– The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin

– Pelican Society Membership

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For our last Great Question this season, we’re taking up “What is love?” and we promise not to hurt you. We look over a variety of love stories from vastly different periods in literary history, and are surprised to find a common thread through them all.

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Referenced Works:

– Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy–Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis– Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers– Miranda (2009-2015), written by Miranda Hart– The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien– The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis– Modern Love (2019), Amazon Prime– A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken– The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri– The End of the Affair by Graham Greene– Fiddler on the Roof, music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick– Crazy, Stupid Love (2011), written by Dan Fogelman–“Who Are We Fooling?” by Brooke Fraser–The Odyssey by Homer– Ulysses by James Joyce

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