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A bunch of grad students gather to discuss the big (and not so big) questions of film and media on their chaotic, anxiety-ridden journey to become “media literate.”
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Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Hey, almost everybody who worked on this podcast is receiving their degrees today! In honor of this momentous occasion, the Media Literate team organized an adorably tiny "conference" with some panels of our most frequent guests to let them talk to each other for once instead of being stuck with Kim and Laura. It's a mushy, feel-good finale. Thanks for listening.
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Sebastian returns from an epic voyage through the James Bond franchise to tell Kim and Laura about one of its low points—or high points, depending on how you look at it—Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day (2002).
Some cool articles for further inquiry:
Barry Barclay, “Celebrating Fourth Cinema”: https://www.academia.edu/4905111/Printed_in_Illusions_Magazine_NZ_July_2003_CELEBRATING_FOURTH_CINEMA Cynthia Baron, “Doctor No: Bonding Britishness to Racial Sovereignty”: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_James_Bond_Phenomenon/x9-1QY5boUsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322328154_On_the_importance_of_a_date_or_decolonizing_the_Anthropocene
T.J. Demos, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today: https://icamiami-org.storage.googleapis.com/2017/06/dc83ec96-mirzoeff-demos_anthropocene-proofs-jan2017.pdf
Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822385981/html?lang=en
Jamie Shinhee Lee, “North Korea, South Korea, and 007 Die Another Day”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405900701464865
Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781478021445/html
Emiel Martens, Once Were Warriors: The Aftermath: The Controversy of OWW in Aotearoa New Zealand: https://www.amazon.com/Once-were-Warriors-Aftermath-Controversy/dp/9052602360
Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interrupts: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822376781/html
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, “Toward a Third Cinema”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41685716
Vanessa Watts, “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour!)”: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/19145
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Bri returns to drop some more game studies knowledge on Kim and Laura's heads, this time thinking about the question of agency. What does it mean to make choices in games, particularly when it comes to games that tell stories of resistance and revolution? Is there a "right" or a "wrong" ending to these games?
Some cool links for further inquiry:
States and Social Revolutions by Theda Skocpol:
Muriel, Daniel and Garry Crawford. "Video games and agency within neoliberalism and participatory culture." Video games as Culture: The Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society. Routledge, 2018
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Kim Henry joins Julia Elizabeth Evans to reflect on the biggest night of the year in Hollywood—the good, the bad, and the cringe.
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
It's a mom appreciation episode! Kim, Laura, and Daniela try to parse through Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" while considering their own mothers and how they influenced their love of film. No, Kim and Laura don't understand the movie, but hey, they've still got a whole two months left in their Master's program to figure it all out.
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Julia welcomes Kim and Laura to her new coven with a conversation about witches and anthropology.
Some cool links for further inquiry:
What Type of Witch Are You?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1/what-type-of-witch-are-you
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mules_and_Men/tz62QRx_gE0C?hl=en&gbpv=0 -
Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Witch/RDYuDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati, “Expedition Content”: https://ek.klingt.org/expeditioncontent.html
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Witchcraft_Oracles_and_Magic_Among_the_A/z7dFEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Chick Strand, “Notes on Ethnographic Film by a Film Artist”: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/catalog/6643
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Our producer Julia Elizabeth Evans takes a second to process industry news with our host Laura. Together, they circle back and work out their thoughts about the 2021 Rust set tragedy, the fall 2021 IAETSE strike, Hollywood’s culture of urgency, and the industry-wide conversation around safety on set.
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Laura and Kim enlist Ann's help in understanding what it is about early film she loves so much—other than the fact that Buster Keaton can definitely get it, which they understand completely.
Some cool links for further inquiry:
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
From cultural norms to political values to stereotypes—learn all about Antonio Gramsci and his essential contributions to the concept of 'hegemony' on this week's Snack Episode, with special guest, PhD student Dan Lark.
Some cool references for further inquiry:
How Gramsci Went Global" by Marzia Maccaferri: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/how-gramsci-went-global
Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary by Giussepe Fiori (1990)
Antonio Gramsci: Architect of a New Politics by Dante L. Germino (1990)
The Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/prison-notebooks/9780231157551
"The world world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci