Episode 25: How Improvisational It All Is (September, 2015): Teaching Tips; Debra Ramsay on War-Based Video Games; Fieldnotes Interview: James Naremore

Fall is here and the semester has begun. Michael and Chris share some teaching tips, and we'd like to hear your teaching tips too: email us at info@aca-media.org.

Our Cinema Journal Presents segment features Debra Ramsay discussing war-based video games like Call of Duty. Then we bring you another Fieldnotes interview, this time with film scholar James Naremore, expert on Welles and Hitchcock.

Finally, we reveal the winner of our book giveaway and issue a call for more folks to help out with the Aca-Media podcast. Please email us at info@aca-media.org if you'd like to be part of the production team.

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Episode 24: Maybe Someone's Head Turned (August, 2015): Kristen Warner on Race and Casting in Contemporary TV; Fieldnotes Interview: Gertrud Koch

It's an exciting, exciting episode of Aca-Media to help you while away the dog days of summer. First up: Kristen Warner talks about "colorblind casting" and waxes eloquent about her love for Magic Mike XXL. Bonus: We're giving away a copy of Kristen's new book to a lucky graduate student; to enter, email your idea for a segment of Aca-Media to info@aca-media.org. Then we bring you another Fieldnotes interview excerpt, this time with distinguished German film critic and scholar Gertrud Koch. Finally, Michael and Chris talk about what television programs are keeping them out of the summer heat.

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Episode 23: What Academics Think is Fun (July, 2015): Jill Simpson interview; Jennifer Proctor on Textuality in Film

Michael and Chris are back from Dublin, and we have lots of great content for your summer listening pleasure.  First, Bill interviews Jill Simpson, Executive Director of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, about her background and plans for the society. Then Chris talks with Jennifer Proctor about her [in]Transition video essay on textuality in film. Finally, we have a Vox Scholari segment of summer viewing recommendations. 

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Episode 22: To Get to the Heart of It (June, 2015): Austin Fisher; Tribute to Michele Hilmes; Public Higher Education Under Siege

It's been a while, but we're back with some good stuff!  First, Austin Fisher discusses his video essay from [in]Transition, responding to Michelle Cho’s CJ article on spaghetti westerns. Then we air a tribute to distinguished media scholar Michele Hilmes, produced by Andrew Bottomley and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin.  Finally, Michael and Chris lament the latest political developments in higher education. 

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Episode 21: It's Not About the Money (March, 2015): Jon Lewis: "How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood"; Danny Kimball on Net Neutrality; SCMS Montreal Conference Preview

This episode features lots of great content to get you through your flight to Montreal. First we talk with Jon Lewis about his classic Cinema Journal article from 2000 about “How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood." Then media policy scholar Danny Kimball fills us in on the FCC's big network neutrality decision. Finally, after the most implausible segue in recorded human history, Casey McCormick and Eric Powell give you an invaluable guide to Montreal for the upcoming SCMS conference; check out their interactive map of restaurants and other sites.

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Episode 20: Three Times as Many Laughs (January, 2015): Jeremy Butler on Quantitative Analysis; Fieldnotes: Linda Williams

Don't fear the numbers! In a fascinating (and funny) interview, we talk to Jeremy Butler about how he uses quantitative analysis and digital tools to better understand film and television style. Then we continue bringing you interviews with great film and media scholars from the folks at Fieldnotes: this month Thomas Waugh talks with Linda Williams about Jump Cut, the pornography wars of the 1980s, and her more recent work on race and melodrama. 

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Episode 19: I Love to Hear Those Stories (December, 2014): Rielle Navitski on Latin American Film History; Fieldnotes Interview: Thomas Elsaesser

This month we bring you the great film scholar Thomas Elsaesser as part of our collaboration with the new Fieldnotes project. Fieldnotes is conducting oral histories with notable media scholars, so look for more great interviews in coming episodes, and listen to the full interviews at the SCMS website.  We also have a fascinating conversation with Rielle Navitski about researching Latin American film history, based on her contribution to a recent “In Focus” section of Cinema Journal on the subject.  

And if that weren't enough, we're giving away a NEW CAR! All you have to do is be one of the first fifty to take the Aca-Media survey here. Fair warning: Michael has not yet told us what kind of car he has in mind for us to give away. But take the survey anyway; maybe he's the mystery buyer behind this one? 

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Episode 18: You're Gonna Scare Him Again (October, 2014): Jennifer Hyland Wang on Forrest Gump, SCMS Undergraduate Conference

It's a spooky, mystery-filled Halloween for the Aca-Media team.  Chris has just moved into a new house, only to discover that it might be haunted.  While she and Michael investigate (luckily our SCMS grant enabled us to afford a deflux modulator!), we bring you a "Cinema Journal Classics" interview with Jennifer Hyland Wang about her 2000 CJ piece on Forrest Gump.  Then we give you a tour of last year's SCMS Undergraduate Conference and a preview of what you can expect from next year's … if the ghost doesn’t get you first! 

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Episode 17: A Confidence In Our Form (September, 2014): Courtney Brannon Donoghue on Film Production in Brazil; [in]Transition and Video Essays

Now that you've distributed those syllabi, but before the first papers come in, reward yourself with a new episode of Aca-Media!  Our "Cinema Journal Presents" segment this month features Courtney Brannon Donoghue discussing Sony's film production in Brazil.  Chris then introduces you to an exciting new outlet for video essays, [in]Transition, discussing the form's potential as well as questions of evaluation and review. Finally, Chris and Michael discuss baseball players who don't have a clue and a couple of British detectives who do.  Even though Chris herself doesn't have a clue how to say Aca Hyphen Media Dot Org, that's where to go for show notes and more episodes.

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Episode 16: Almost an International Incident (August, 2014): Jennifer Petersen on Mutual v. Ohio; Vox Scholari: Book Recommendations from the Craft of Criticism Conference

This month's episode features Jennifer Petersen on the famous 1915 Mutual v. Ohio case: the Supreme Court's ruling in that case that films are not speech seems obviously wrong today, but Jen helps us understand the cultural context of that decision and its legacy. We also bring you a Vox Scholari segment: an (academic) star-studded lineup of reading recommendations to get you excited about everything from cultural geography to intertextuality.  Finally, Chris and Michael discuss all the shows they hope to catch up on.

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