{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/689745a8c952cf5978aa6d01?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"WASP movie | Whit Stillman interview","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/1754743636637-ffa35d4d-cc00-47ce-b67b-7581a21bffcd.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Whit Stillman is something of a cult film director. He rose to prominence in 1990 with his debut film <em>Metropolitan</em>, which became the first in the so-called “Doomed. Bourgeois. In love” trilogy: Barcelona came out in 1994 and The Last Days of Disco in 1998. Set among America’s so-called “Preppy” class, the films are comedies of manners in the tradition of Jane Austen, exploring the transitional phase of youth and a certain American identity.</p><p><br></p><p>The films are now having something of a revival. Stillman joins the New Statesman's culture editor Tanjil Rashid.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}