Episode 10: The Truman Show's Controlling Father Figure

As the 1998 movie The Truman Show becomes ever more pertinent to our reality TV and social media obsessed minds, your host has fallen deep into a rabbit hole about the movie, and sees some parallels to modern times' family vlogger channels. Join us this week for an exploration of the theory of Christof as Truman's controlling father figure. Yes, there is ranting involved.

Here's the link to the Wikipedia entry for The Truman Show. 

Link to Jessica Maddox's article about the financial protections recently put into place for FamTube kids can be found here.

Tiffany Ferguson's excellent video discussing Shari Franke's book is linked here, and you can support both her work and Shari Franke's book by clicking here to purchase it using Tiffany's affiliate link. 

Link to Cinema Therapy's "Therapist Reacts To The Truman Show".

The article from The Guardian can be found here.

 

Podcast music: “Couture Fantasy" and "Mid Western”, by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0