Nostalgia Trap - Episode 309: Fucking and the City w/ Yasmin Nair
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
December 21, 20211h 7mExplicit
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Show Notes
Is there a deeper, more powerful nostalgia trap than the Christmas season? In this conversation, Yasmin Nair helps me work out my mixed emotions about the holidays, as we watch the Billy Wilder movie The Apartment (1960) and consider how its dark vision of philandering married men and "other women" in mid-century New York City shows us the Christmas season as a theater of sexual pathos, performative sentiment, and relentless cynicism. Subscribe for all our bonus treats: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap