The Revenant with Stephen Tuffnell

We're going back to the West! This week we examine the 2015 survival thriller The Revenant. Associate Professor of Modern US History at St Peter's College and the University of Oxford Stephen Tuffnell joins to talk about Alejandro Iñárritu's tense and violent tale of the Western frontier where one man is pushed to the extreme in order to survive. (Does this movie do for bears that Jaws did for sharks?) We're talking all things Western on this episode — the Revenant’s relationship to the genre, culture's ongoing fascination with it, the Western’s depictions of indignity and the environment, as well as the politics of the frontier of the early 1880s and more!

You can find more of Stephen's work on transnational America wherever academic books are sold.

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