Moviestruck Episode 143: Scotland, PA (2001) feat. Professor Sheryl Sawin!

Twirl some soft serve and prepare for small town tragedy as we take an academic look at Scotland, PA (2001) with Professor Sheryl Sawin of Temple University, and all the carnivore carnage within!

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Additional Reading:

Elizabeth A. Deitchman, “White Trash Shakespeare: Taste, Morality, and the Dark Side of the American Dream in Billy Morrissette’s Scotland, PA.” Literature/Film Quarterly 34.2 (2006): 140–146.Eric C. Brown, “Shakespeare, Class, and ‘Scotland, PA.’” Literature/Film Quarterly 34.2 (2006): 147–153.Anthony D. Hoefer Jr., “The McDonaldization of ‘Macbeth’: Shakespeare and Pop Culture in ‘Scotland, PA.’” Literature/Film Quarterly 34.2 (2006): 154–160.George Moore, “Macbeth Goes to Carnival: Otium and Economic Determinism in Scotland, PA.” Literature/Film Quarterly 45.3 (2017).Maurizio Calbi, “Ghosts, Burgers and Drive-Throughs: Billy Morrissette’s Scotland, PA Adapts Macbeth.” Anglistica 12.1 (2008): 39–57.The Family, Sex and Marriage by Lawrence Stone:

https://archive.org/details/familysexmarriag0000ston

An Ordered Society by Susan Ammusen:

https://archive.org/details/orderedsocietyge0000amus

Macbeth (2006):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434541/

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