• #181: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 with Foster Hirsch)

  • Mar 27 2024
  • Length: 57 mins
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#181: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 with Foster Hirsch)

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  • We're celebrating the dueling centennials of Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams with a look at their most enduring collaboration: 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire. Historian and author Foster Hirsch joins us to break down the film's complicated subject matter, Marlon Brando's Method acting, the gender and class politics and everyone's old friend, the Blacklist.

    Buy Foster's book Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties here.

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