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Broadcast: 7-8pm, Thursday 19th November.
The speakers were Richard Martin, Lucy Scholes and Matt Thorne.
Richard led the discussion:
Ten years after it was first released, Stanley Kubrick’s last film Eyes Wide Shut remains the subject of intense critical dispute. Tracing the film’s roots through the work of Freud and Schnitzler, this show will examine how cinema has represented the dynamics of desire.
The show was hosted by Seph Rodney.
Speaker biographies:
Richard Martin is a Doctoral Student at the London Consortium and a Birkbeck Teaching Fellow. His research interests lie in modern American art, architecture, film and literature. He was the organiser of the recent conference ‘Mapping the Lost Highway: New Perspectives on David Lynch’, held at Tate Modern.
Lucy Scholes is a part-time PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, writing her thesis on sibling relationships in twentieth-century literature and psychoanalytic theory. As well as teaching – currently at Birkbeck and the University of Chichester – Lucy also works as a freelance editor and journalist.
Matt Thorne was born in Bristol in 1974. He is the author of six novels, including Eight Minutes Idle, which won the Encore Award in 1999 and Cherry, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He also co-edited the anthologies All Hail the New Puritans (2000) and Croatian Nights (2005) and is currently working on a critical study of the pop star Prince to be published by Faber and Faber in 2011. He reviews for several newspapers, including the Independent, Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Telegraph and teaches Creative Writing at Brunel University.
- Eyes Wide Shut. Copyright Leszek Zebrowski and Cinephilia.