Episode 66: Übermensch at Work

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”  

• Yoel Inbar [yoelinbar.net]
• Very Bad Wizards Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness [verybadwizards.com]
• Rope [IMDB.com]
• Leopold and Loeb [wikipedia.org]
• Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The Leopold and Loeb Trial Page (UMKC Law)
• Paul Gauguin [wikipedia.org]
• The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham [wikipedia.org]
• Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy [plato.stanford.edu]
• Damasio, A. "Remembering When," Scientific American, 2002. [antonellapavese.com]
• What's the matter with a little brother sister action? by Tamler Sommers [psychologytoday.com]

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