
Historical Friction is a podcast about storytelling, pop culture, the past, and why we reenact it. Also sometimes bad wigs. Created by Alice Procter with Abigail Fine and Helen Victoria Murray.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 43 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | History | |||

Our Heights have been Wuthered! Have yours?
In today's episode, Alice, Helen, and Abigail discuss the brand new Wuthering Heights film directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver, ba... more
A Yuletide treat! This year, we at Historical Friction have plenty of cheeses for you meeces, as Alice, Helen, and Abigail finally discuss The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992). Directed by Brian Henson, this film stars Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge,... more
Welcome to Historical Friction, Festive Edition! In today's episode, Alice, Helen, and Abigail discuss the 2017 Charles Dickens biopic The Man Who Invented Christmas, directed by Bharat Nalluri, based on a non-fiction book of the same title by Les St... more
It's alive!!! Our podcast, that is. After more than three years, we here at Historical Friction have decided to re-start the show! And what better way to kick it off than with a discussion of Guillermo del Toro's take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"... more
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Love this podcast, especially “The Mummy” episode. I’d love to hear an episode on one of the early Hollywood zombie movies and the historical context of religious syncretism, the Hatian Revolution, the violent U.S. Occupation of Haiti and Hollywood’s demonization of Haitian people and religion through zombie movies. It would be interesting to hear about how Zombie films evolved throughout horror history from reinforcing colonial power to now, in many cases, being known to critique power structur... more
…of hosts, of films, of disciplines - can we please just get these guys to put their art history lens through just all cultural material???
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Apple Podcasts | #166 |
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