How Barbie Captures the Plasticity of Our Surreal Times
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew talks to Lit Hub movie critic Olivia Rutigliano about the gendered politics, anti-nostalgic aesthetics, and Hollywood/Mattel economics of Greta Gerwig’s hit new movie, Barbie.
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Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of Lit Hub’s CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at Lit Hub. She is also a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, PBS Television, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate and the Marion E. Ponsford fellow in the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she specializes in 19th and early 20th-century literature and entertainment.
