Episodes
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Snack Episode 6: Memorialization and World War 2 Films
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
From the The Odyssey to Saving Private Ryan (1998), why are War stories so prevalent in our culture, and what purpose do they serve? Join us with the return of Kevin, who finally tells us the truth about his Twilight journey, and dive into the reasons behind memorialization in War Films.
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Episode 16: Is Miyazaki an Environmentalist?
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
We're back with our Third Season! Listen to the return of Colton, who joins Kim and Laura to tell them all about Hayao Miyazaki and the possibility of media to shape our perspectives on the environment and the future.
Some cool links for further inquiry:
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, "A look inside 'The Mushroom at the End of the World'": https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-look-inside-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene": https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.001.0001/oso-9780190696771
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Episode 15: The Archive of the Future
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Ann returns to drop some glorious archive knowledge on Laura and Kim. What even is an archive? Why do they exist? What's the best way to maintain one for the future?
PLUS, check out Ann's amazing documentary on family archives: https://vimeo.com/597358678
We're going to be taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for a while as we prepare for Season 3, so to help bear the absence of your biweekly dose of grad student panic check us out on our brand new Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medialiteratepodcast/
Some cool links for further inquiry:
Anthony Slide - Nitrate Won't Wait: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HZIq5-_hu5cC&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=nitrate+won%27t+wait&ots=ujBhoLohcX&sig=LVbvIC8zH8WUBuQ5NFQfAKnKjsI#v=onepage&q=nitrate%20won%27t%20wait&f=false
Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Qj1kDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=saidiya+hartman+wayward+lives&ots=VZ8ztVQOMm&sig=6-d9gi38sF8NNTXRZ5esPnqzW3E#v=onepage&q=saidiya%20hartman%20wayward%20lives&f=false
Saturday Aug 28, 2021
Snack Episode 5: The Spaces Between
Saturday Aug 28, 2021
Saturday Aug 28, 2021
After successfully navigating our brief liminal space of the summer between semesters, Lilla joins this week to discuss the origins of Cultural Liminality and it's relationship to film and media. Learn where liminality comes from, why it matters, and how it relates to films like Brooklyn (2015) and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) on this week's Snack Episode.
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Episode 14: Is Film Dead?
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
D. N. Rodowick
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjf9v4j
Anne Friedberg
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uIv-DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT9&dq=ann+friedberg+the+virtual+window&ots=i8nvmn2Vqj&sig=jIIWATei7PKPGmWC4BhWUZhqGlo#v=onepage&q=ann%20friedberg%20the%20virtual%20window&f=false
Raymond Williams
Marshall McLuhan
Roland Barthes
Walter Benjamin
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Snack Episode 4: The Truth About Neoliberalism
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Well, at least as much of that truth you can get in 3 min.
Join us this week as Charlotte discusses Neoliberalism's roots, alongside its early founders and handful of shortcomings.
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Episode 12: AMC‘s Terrible Year
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Kim and Laura welcome newcomer Brian Smith to reflect on some developments that have shaken up the the entertainment industry in the past year and discuss the shifting culture around film viewing. Will AMC survive the shift to streaming? Will the government ever regulate the film industry again? Will Julia Rose Camus forgive Kim for her slights against the French? Only time will tell.
A single cool link for further inquiry:
Tom Gunning's "The Cinema of Attraction"
https://film110.pbworks.com/f/Gunning+Cinema+of+Attractions.pdf
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Snack Episode 3: Understanding Queer Time in 3 Minutes
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
As if romance movies weren't already unrealistic enough, Guest Host Julia Rose Camus helps explain why queer relationships are often even more removed from realism in our media. Join us on this week's Snack Episode to learn everything you need to know about Queer Time and why it matters in our media today.
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Episode 11: The 3 Cardinal Sins of Queer Representation
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Julia Rose Camus, Kim, and Laura look back on some of their most formative shows and discuss the great missteps of queer representation that characterized so much of 2000s media.