Blockbusters, bombs, and Barbie™

On this episode of VIEW to the U, Professor Andreas Hilfinger talks a bit about his work in Chemical & Physical Sciences, but we also get to hear about the work of Professor Meghan Sutherland from Visual Studies. It's a bit of a film review with two brilliant UTM researchers, and we are talking about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie – both undoubtedly THE films of the summer that had so much buzz around them, with a return to theatres in a big event way, And I actually need to sometimes remind myself that I have access to the smartest people around to discuss these kinds of things – in this case pop culture. So, today, as a way to cap off summer and this season, we are going to the movies, and it’s a double feature! Resources - For a full transcript of the episode, go to https://uoft.me/9E1 - For more on Professor Hilfinger's work, go to his website at https://www.hilfinger.group/ - For more on Professor Sutherland's work, go to her website at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/people/meghan-sutherland - Prof Hilfinger mentioned the Opinionated History of Mathematics podcast and it can be found at https://intellectualmathematics.com/opinionated-history-of-mathematics/ - Prof Sutherland mentioned Michel Serres the Variations of the Body, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/variations-on-the-body#:~:text=World%2Drenowned%20philosopher%2C%20Michel%20Serres,clowns%2C%20artisans%2C%20and%20artists., Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut of The Lost Daughter https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9100054/, and the Lying Life of Adults https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12708140/; both the Lost Daughter and Lying Life of Adults are Elena Ferrante adaptations.