Brad Birzer on Mythic Realms, Great Film, and the American Western
05/02/23 • 42 min
In this episode:
- Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film
- a crash course in all the must-see movies and TV series that teach about justice, charity, and finding one’s place in the moral order
- how the frontier, captured in Western film and movies, represents the possibilities that have embodied the American spirit
Texts Mentioned:
- Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film by Brad Birzer
- The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
- Beyond Tenebrae by Brad Birzer
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt
- Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk
- The Batman Trilogy
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Friday Night Lights Fight (Revised)” by Peter Lawler
- Stranger Things
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
- Tenet
- Interstellar
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In this episode:
- Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film
- a crash course in all the must-see movies and TV series that teach about justice, charity, and finding one’s place in the moral order
- how the frontier, captured in Western film and movies, represents the possibilities that have embodied the American spirit
Texts Mentioned:
- Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film by Brad Birzer
- The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
- Beyond Tenebrae by Brad Birzer
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt
- Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk
- The Batman Trilogy
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Friday Night Lights Fight (Revised)” by Peter Lawler
- Stranger Things
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
- Tenet
- Interstellar
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Texts Mentioned:
- Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Bureaucracy by James Q. Wilson
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