web02.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:18:03 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Love” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/love Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 96: Beautiful Beast: On Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bête' https://www.weirdstudies.com/96 7a353152-fdd7-4761-b786-70f80b9b525a Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 96 Beautiful Beast: On Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bête' full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil discuss Jean Cocteau's masterful film, "Beauty and the Beast." 1:20:22 yes Jean Cocteau's visionary rendition of Madame de Beaumont's fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast," itself the retelling of a story that may be several millennia old, is the topic of this Weird Studies episode, which proposes a journey down lunar paths to the crossroads where love and death intersect. Drawing on Surrealism, myth, and the occult, Cocteau's 1946 film transcends the limitations of media to become a living poem, a thing that is also a place, a place that is also a mind. This conversation touches on the genius of the child, the mysteries of Eros, the monstrosity of consciousness, and the sorcery of cinema. Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@ivanjevtic?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Ivan Jevtic</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/red-rose?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a> Click here (https://www.nuralearning.com/art-and-contemplation.html) to register for JF's upcoming course on art. REFERENCES Jean Cocteau (dir.), La Belle et la Bête (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/) Jaques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781944418762) Sergei Diaghilev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev), Russian impresario Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (dir.), Beauty and the Beast (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/) David Thomson, Have You Seen? (https://bookshop.org/books/have-you-seen-a-personal-introduction-to-1-000-films/9780375711343) Bram Stoker, Dracula (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780141439846) Johannes Vermeer (http://www.essentialvermeer.com/), Dutch painter Philip Glass, [La Belle et la Bête](https://philipglass.com/compositions/belleetlabete/)_ (opera) Game of Thrones (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/), Television series Weird Studies, Episode 84 on the Empress Card (https://www.weirdstudies.com/84) Weird Studies, Episode 94 on the Moon Card (https://www.weirdstudies.com/94) Jean Cocteau, belle et la bete, beauty and the beast, analysis, meaning, film, weird studies, occult Jean Cocteau's visionary rendition of Madame de Beaumont's fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast," itself the retelling of a story that may be several millennia old, is the topic of this Weird Studies episode, which proposes a journey down lunar paths to the crossroads where love and death intersect. Drawing on Surrealism, myth, and the occult, Cocteau's 1946 film transcends the limitations of media to become a living poem, a thing that is also a place, a place that is also a mind. This conversation touches on the genius of the child, the mysteries of Eros, the monstrosity of consciousness, and the sorcery of cinema.

Photo by Ivan Jevtic on Unsplash

Click here to register for JF's upcoming course on art.

REFERENCES

Jean Cocteau (dir.), La Belle et la Bête

Jaques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
Sergei Diaghilev, Russian impresario
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (dir.), Beauty and the Beast
David Thomson, Have You Seen?
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter
Philip Glass, La Belle et la Bête (opera)
Game of Thrones, Television series
Weird Studies, Episode 84 on the Empress Card
Weird Studies, Episode 94 on the Moon Card

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Photo by Ivan Jevtic on Unsplash

Click here to register for JF's upcoming course on art.

REFERENCES

Jean Cocteau (dir.), La Belle et la Bête

Jaques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
Sergei Diaghilev, Russian impresario
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (dir.), Beauty and the Beast
David Thomson, Have You Seen?
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter
Philip Glass, La Belle et la Bête (opera)
Game of Thrones, Television series
Weird Studies, Episode 84 on the Empress Card
Weird Studies, Episode 94 on the Moon Card

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