web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:37:09 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Sexuality” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/sexuality Sun, 14 Oct 2018 11:00:00 -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 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' https://www.weirdstudies.com/30 eceb2a86-a426-4bab-b2e3-63912c6d8865 Sun, 14 Oct 2018 11:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 30 On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF discuss Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece. 1:06:26 yes No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some of the key themes of Kubrick's film, a masterpiece of cinematic chamber music that demonstrates, with painstaking attention to detail, Zen Master Dōgen's utterance that when one side of the world is illuminated, the other side is dark. Treading a winding path between wakefulness and dream, love and sex, life and art, your paranoid hosts make boldly for that secret spot where the rainbow ends, and the masks come off. REFERENCES Arthur Schnitzler, [Dream Story (Traumnovelle)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamStory)_ -- Source of the EWS screenplay, sadly overlooked in the episode but well worth a read. Frederic Raphael, Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Wide-Open-Stanley-Kubrick/dp/0345437764) Bathysphere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere)  Frank L. Baum, [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheWonderfulWizardofOz) David Icke's "reptilian" theory of the British Royal Family (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-36339298/david-icke-on-9-11-and-lizards-in-buckingham-palace-theories)  Thomas A. Nelson, Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (https://www.amazon.com/Kubrick-Inside-Film-Artists-Midland/dp/0253202833) Screenshot (https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/14VBmkoF.png) of newspaper article from Eyes Wide Shut Rodney Ascher, [Room 237](https://www.nfb.ca/film/room237/)_ James Hillman, Pan and the Nightmare (https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Nightmare-James-Hillman/dp/0882142259)  Gustave Moreau, L'Apparition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Apparition) Mario Praz, [The Romantic Agony](https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.13207/2015.13207.The-Romantic-Agonydjvu.txt)_ William S. Burroughs, “On Coincidence,” in The Adding Machine (https://www.amazon.com/Adding-Machine-William-S-Burroughs/dp/0802121950) J.F. Martel, "The Kubrick Gaze" (http://realitysandwich.com/149960/the-kubrick-gaze/) kubrick, eyes wide shut, analysis No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some of the key themes of Kubrick's film, a masterpiece of cinematic chamber music that demonstrates, with painstaking attention to detail, Zen Master Dōgen's utterance that when one side of the world is illuminated, the other side is dark. Treading a winding path between wakefulness and dream, love and sex, life and art, your paranoid hosts make boldly for that secret spot where the rainbow ends, and the masks come off.

REFERENCES

Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story (Traumnovelle) -- Source of the EWS screenplay, sadly overlooked in the episode but well worth a read.
Frederic Raphael, Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick
Bathysphere 
Frank L. Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
David Icke's "reptilian" theory of the British Royal Family 
Thomas A. Nelson, Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze
Screenshot of newspaper article from Eyes Wide Shut
Rodney Ascher, Room 237
James Hillman, Pan and the Nightmare 
Gustave Moreau, L'Apparition
Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony
William S. Burroughs, “On Coincidence,” in The Adding Machine
J.F. Martel, "The Kubrick Gaze"

]]> No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some of the key themes of Kubrick's film, a masterpiece of cinematic chamber music that demonstrates, with painstaking attention to detail, Zen Master Dōgen's utterance that when one side of the world is illuminated, the other side is dark. Treading a winding path between wakefulness and dream, love and sex, life and art, your paranoid hosts make boldly for that secret spot where the rainbow ends, and the masks come off.

REFERENCES

Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story (Traumnovelle) -- Source of the EWS screenplay, sadly overlooked in the episode but well worth a read.
Frederic Raphael, Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick
Bathysphere 
Frank L. Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
David Icke's "reptilian" theory of the British Royal Family 
Thomas A. Nelson, Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze
Screenshot of newspaper article from Eyes Wide Shut
Rodney Ascher, Room 237
James Hillman, Pan and the Nightmare 
Gustave Moreau, L'Apparition
Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony
William S. Burroughs, “On Coincidence,” in The Adding Machine
J.F. Martel, "The Kubrick Gaze"

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