A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
In our last episode of 2016, we present Susan Ohmer discussing the experience of teaching a course on US presidential elections. We also feature SCMS Conference Manager Leslie LeMond on the work that goes into preparations for the annual SCMS conference, including the 2017 Chicago edition.
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Recorded after Game 1 of the World Series and before the conclusion of the US presidential election, here we feature interviews with Kirk Combe and Sangeet Kumar on political satire media in an international context, as well as Cynthia Meyers on broadcast advertising and the red scare.
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Kicking off the fall semester, we present the first in a three part series with media scholars in conversations addressing the current election season—beginning with Chuck Tryon, author of the new book “Political TV.” In addition, we are featuring an excerpt of the excellent SCMS Fieldnotes interview with Constance Penley by Elena Gorfinkel.
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We’re back with an extended summer episode courtesy of the SCMS Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG). Produced by Tim Anderson, the episode features excellent segments with Jeremy Morris on music formats, metadata and tagging; Brian Fauteux on Canadian college radio; Joan Titus on Shostakovich and musicology; and Nina Cartier on Blaxploitation soundtracks. Enjoy your summer!
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Just wrapping up the spring semester, this new episode features a report from the Academy Film Archives featuring interviews with the archive’s director Michael Pogorzelski, preservation officer Joe Lindner, and public access coordinator May Haduong.
In addition, we present an interview with Nicholas Mirzoeff, speaking on his new book “How to See the World,” as well as scholarly and activist projects concerning Black Lives Matter, visual culture, and theorizations of the anthropocene.
Hope you are having a great start to the summer!
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A special Aca-Media short report! The non-academic talk of #SCMS16 has been the furry convention at the hotel next door, so Chris went along with a handful of fan studies scholars to check it out.
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Our pre-SCMS Atlanta episode includes a detailed report from the Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, featuring interviews with Josh Shepperd, Sonja Williams, Gerald Seligman, and Wendy Shay.
In addition, we present a segment on the history and legacy of the SCMS Latino/a Caucus, from Luisela Alvaray, Laura Isabel Serna, and Rielle Navitski, featuring interviews with Margarita De La Vega-Hurtado and Charles Ramírez Berg.
See you in Atlanta for SCMS 2016!
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Following last episode’s segment on graduate student-run journals, we present a segment on the undergraduate journal Film Matters, featuring co-editor-in-chief Tim Palmer of University of North Carolina Wilmington, guest editor-in-chief Gregory Chan of Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and editorial board members Jen Pintao and Kailyn Warpole.
In addition, we feature an excerpt of the SCMS Fieldnotes interview with Tom Gunning of University of Chicago, discussing a wide range of topics with Scott Curtis of Northwestern University after receiving the Distinguished Career Award at SCMS 2015.
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Our Cinema Journal Presents segment features Jun Okada, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at SUNY Geneseo discussing her new book Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements, as well as ongoing research.
In addition, we’ve put together a segment on graduate student-run journals, including interviews with editors of InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (featuring Victoria Gao, of the University of Rochester), as well as The Velvet Light Trap (featuring Caroline Leader and Derek Long of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Colleen Montgomery and Michael O'Brien of the University of Texas at Austin). Next month’s episode will continue this series, exploring more great student journals.
Also, Chris gathers comments from fellow participants in a workshop on Television History, the Peabody Archives, and Cultural Memory at the Peabody Awards Archives at the University of Georgia.
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Drama! Tension! Melodrama! Horror! This episode will put you through the emotional wringer, it will give you the feels, it will help you understand both cannibals and Cubs fans. No preview can do it justice: you'll just have to listen. With Vicky Johnson, Lisa Schmidt, and "Very Special Guest Star" Elana Levine.
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