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Lick it up, baby, because we’re taking a closer look at 1989’s Heathers, a cult film dissecting the cold, calculating dark side of humanity (and the Reagan era). We also take a little jaunt into the disastrous television adaptation and the extremely catch music to ask the nagging question, “Does Heathers have any relevance today?”
Warning: In addition to swearing, this episodes contains references to suicide, sexual assault, eating disorders, and school violence.
Some Links You Might Find Interesting:
Investigating the 1980s Hollywood Teen Genre: Adolescence, Character, Space by Patrick O’Neill
“Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy by Naomi Fry
‘Heathers’ Turns 30: Why Winona Ryder’s Agent Begged Her Not to Do the Subversive Teen Movie by Susan King
The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles (2005) in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork by Timothy Shary
A Brief History of Punch-Down Comedy by Sascha Cohen
Still Very, 25 Years Later: The Bleak Genius of Heathers by Alan Zilberman
Heathers: An oral history by Adam Markovitz
Nightmare in the Mirror: Adolescence and the Death of Difference by Scott Long
Profiles in Ontological Rebellion: The Presence of Moby-Dick in Heathers by Randy Laist
Is Heathers too shocking for 2018? by Emma Jones
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