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From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
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Wednesday May 19, 2021
The Wandering: An Interview with Intan Paramaditha
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author, Intan Paramaditha, to discuss her novel, The Wandering. Intan Paramaditha was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction in Indonesia, English PEN Translates Award, and PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short story collection Apple and Knife and the editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series of Tilted Axis Press in the UK. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches media and film studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Does My Head Look Big in This? Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Join Michelle Hamadache as she talks to Randa Abdel-Fattah, award winning writer and activist, about her very first novel, Does My Head Look Big in This? Randa will be appearing at this year's Sydney Writer's Festival: https://www.swf.org.au/writers/randa-abdel-fattah/
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko: A Tale of Fire and Ice
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
This week Michelle is joined by Jimmy and special guest, Khoa Tran, to discuss Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko. Join us as we discuss revenge, class, mythology, identity and whether or not Khoa can make his hair swish like a cat's tail.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
The Bored and the Beautiful - Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
This week Michelle is joined by Jimmy and special guest, Khoa Tran, to discuss Antonioni's L'Avventura. Join us as we discuss gender, class, boredom, weird sex scenes, and fight over whether this is a subversive masterpiece, or a tedious exploration of ennui.
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
In this week's episode of From the Lighthouse, join Michelle as she talks with Page Richards, director of Hong Kong University's MFA program and prize-winning poet and vaudeville artist. They discuss the changing states and stakes of literary fiction in contemporary times.
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Before Shackleton there was Ursula K. Le Guin's "Sur"
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Join Associate Professor Jane Messer and Michelle as they discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's speculative short story "Sur" about the group of women explorers who arrived at the Antarctic's South Pole, well before Shackleton.
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Associate Professor Jane Messer joins Michelle to discuss a short horror story by Graham Greene, 'A Little Place Off the Edgware Road' and another short story by Australian writer, Paddy O'Reilly, 'Baggage Claim'. If you'd like to read O'Reilly's short story before listening, her story was published in Overland and the link is provided below.
https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-231/fiction-paddy-oreilly/
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Michelle and Jimmy are joined in this episode by Media Arts teacher and film fanatic, Khoa Tran, to discuss, Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman's late masterpiece about the difficult and, at times, destructive relationship between mothers and daughters.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
The Relentlessness of Memory in Michael Haneke's Caché
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
In this episode of From the Lighthouse, Jimmy and Michelle talk about Michael Haneke's 2005 intriguing and enigmatic film Caché. The film, starring Juliet Binoche and Daniel Auteil, explores the absence of remorse and the relentlessness of memory in the life of French intellectual Georges, charting Georges response as the family start receiving anonymous video cassettes and crayon drawings reminding Georges of his childhood transgression against a young Algerian boy, Majid. The film explores the long shadow of French colonial violence against Algerians and critiques a national response that refuses to acknowledge the past.
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Classic Teendaptation #6: Get Over It
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Get Over It is a 2001 teen adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This week, Stephanie and Kirstin discuss Kirsten Dunst, teen romance, and overexcited dogs.