Michael and Chris are freezing, yet they pull themselves together to provide another great episode. In the "Cinema Journal Presents" segment, Michael Slowik discusses music in early Hollywood sound film. Then Caetlin Benson-Allott introduces us to a great SCMS tradition, Grrrls Night Out. Finally Chris discusses what she watching and Michael sends one out to the snow-shovelers we love.

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Groundhog Day wake-up scene
What Chris and Michael are bitching about

Cinema Journal Presents: Michael Slowik

Michael Slowik’s page at San Diego State
Michael's article in Cinema Journal, "Diegetic Withdrawal and Other Worlds: Film Music Strategies before King Kong , 1927–1933" (click here for a PDF preview)
King Kong on IMDB
Max Steiner on Wikipedia
The Jazz Singer on IMDB
Rick Altman’s page at the University of Iowa
Diegetic vs. non-diegetic sound
Lights of New York on IMDB
Symphony of Six Million on IMDB
The Bitter Tea of General Yen on IMDB
Altman's "crisis historiography" in Silent Film Sound
The Warner Bros. collection at the UCLA Archives
"As Time Goes By" from Casablanca on YouTube

Grrrls Night Out

Anna Froula's page at East Carolina University
Caetlin Benson-Allott talking about 2013’s Grrrl’s Night Out
EventBrite page for Grrrls Night Out 2014
SCMS website blurb for GNO
Caetlin Benson-Allott’s page at Georgetown
The fabulous Shilyh Warren's page at UT-Dallas
Chris Holmlund at SCMS
The SCMS tribute to Alexander Doty
Fare Start restaurant

What We're Watching

20 Feet From Stardom
The Act of Killing
Casey Kasem's dedication rant (NSFW--language)
And the awesome Negativland song built out of Kasem's rant and
his U2 intro on YouTube and All Music