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From the Lighthouse

From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au

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25:41

HSC Enrichment Session: Jane Austen's Emma with Dr...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Dr Stephanie Russo on the novel Emma (Advanced English Module: Critical Study of Literature)

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23:32

HSC Enrichment Session: The Poetry of T.S Eliot with...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Associate Professor Paul Sheehan on the poetry of T.S. Eliot (Advanced English Module: Critical Study of Literature)

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29:07

HSC Enrichment Session: John Keats & Bright Star with...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment session with Dr Geoffrey Payne on the poetry of John Keats and the film Bright Star (Advanced English Module: Textual Conversations)

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26:42

HSC Enrichment Session: Richard III & Looking for...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Dr Stephanie Russo on Richard III and the film Looking for Richard (Advanced English Module: Textual Conversations)

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26:10

HSC Enrichment Session: The Crucible with Assoc....

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Associate Professor Paul Sheehan on the play The Crucible (Common English Module: Texts and Human Experiences)

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23:15

HSC Enrichment Session: The Tempest and Hag-Seed with...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Professor Louise d'Arcens on The Tempest and the novel Hag-Seed (Advanced English Module: Texts and Conversations)

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26:54

HSC Enrichment Session: The Poetry of Kenneth Slessor...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Professor Louise d'Arcens on the poetry of Kenneth Slessor (Common English Module: Texts and Human Experiences)

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50:29

Creative Writing Mastercl: Conversation with Felicity...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A conversation and Creative Writing masterclass with Felicity Castagna, hosted by Associate Professor Hsu-Ming Teo

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17:21

HSC Enrichment Session: The Truman Show with Dr Ryan...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/08/17

A HSC Enrichment Session with Dr Ryan Twomey on the film The Truman Show (Standard English Module: Close Study of Texts)

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37:14

The Wandering: An Interview with Intan Paramaditha

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/05/18

Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author, Intan Paramaditha, to discuss her novel, The Wandering. Intan Paramaditha was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction in Indonesia, English PEN Translates Award, and PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short story collection Apple and Knife and the editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series of Tilted Axis

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47:34

Does My Head Look Big in This? Interview with Randa...

From the Lighthouse ·

2021/05/04

Join Michelle Hamadache as she talks to Randa Abdel-Fattah, award winning writer and activist, about her very first novel, Does My Head Look Big in This? Randa will be appearing at this year's Sydney Writer's Festival: https://www.swf.org.au/writers/randa-abdel-fattah/

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58:21

Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko: A Tale of Fire and Ice

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/11/03

This week Michelle is joined by Jimmy and special guest, Khoa Tran, to discuss Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko. Join us as we discuss revenge, class, mythology, identity and whether or not Khoa can make his hair swish like a cat's tail.

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01:01:41

The Bored and the Beautiful - Michelangelo...

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/10/20

This week Michelle is joined by Jimmy and special guest, Khoa Tran, to discuss Antonioni's L'Avventura. Join us as we discuss gender, class, boredom, weird sex scenes, and fight over whether this is a subversive masterpiece, or a tedious exploration of ennui.

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52:22

Page Richards on the changing states and stakes of...

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/10/06

In this week's episode of From the Lighthouse, join Michelle as she talks with Page Richards, director of Hong Kong University's MFA program and prize-winning poet and vaudeville artist. They discuss the changing states and stakes of literary fiction in contemporary times.

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32:33

Before Shackleton there was Ursula K. Le Guin's "Sur"

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/09/01

Join Associate Professor Jane Messer and Michelle as they discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's speculative short story "Sur" about the group of women explorers who arrived at the Antarctic's South Pole, well before Shackleton.

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54:52

Graham Greene's 'A Little Place Off the Edgware Road'...

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/08/18

Associate Professor Jane Messer joins Michelle to discuss a short horror story by Graham Greene, 'A Little Place Off the Edgware Road' and another short story by Australian writer, Paddy O'Reilly, 'Baggage Claim'. If you'd like to read O'Reilly's short story before listening, her story was published in Overland and the link is provided below. https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-231/fiction-paddy-oreilly/

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57:33

"The mother's injuries are to be handed down to the...

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/08/04

Michelle and Jimmy are joined in this episode by Media Arts teacher and film fanatic, Khoa Tran, to discuss, Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman's late masterpiece about the difficult and, at times, destructive relationship between mothers and daughters.

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01:00:20

The Relentlessness of Memory in Michael Haneke's Caché

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/07/21

In this episode of From the Lighthouse, Jimmy and Michelle talk about Michael Haneke's 2005 intriguing and enigmatic film Caché. The film, starring Juliet Binoche and Daniel Auteil, explores the absence of remorse and the relentlessness of memory in the life of French intellectual Georges, charting Georges response as the family start receiving anonymous video cassettes and crayon drawings reminding Georges of his childhood transgression against a young Algerian boy, Majid. The film explores the

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30:04

Classic Teendaptation #6: Get Over It

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/07/07

Get Over It is a 2001 teen adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This week, Stephanie and Kirstin discuss Kirsten Dunst, teen romance, and overexcited dogs.

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54:44

Classic Teendaptation #5: She's All That

From the Lighthouse ·

2020/06/23

The 1999 film She's All That is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion...or is it? This week, Stephanie, Kirstin and Jimmy discuss glasses, the class system, and disappointment.

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