Back To Boarding School (feat. Brent Rivers) | Episode 71
The Kick
English - September 25, 2017 18:32 - 57 minutes - 65.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsTV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The air is chilling, the leaves are changing, and, boy, do these back-to-school films love to show us just that. On this week’s podcast, we discuss three films shaped around a new year at boarding school. Whether at Hogwarts in 2004 or Ivy League feeder academies in 1959, these boarding school movies all hinge on how an outsider fits into an environment steeped in WASP-ness, wealth, and tradition. English teacher and returning friend-of-the-pod Brent Rivers sits in with us to discuss how “Dead Poets Society,” “School Ties,” and “Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban” all propagate certain myths about inspiring teachers.
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