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 today. 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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Cinema Journal Presents: Jennifer Petersen

Jennifer Petersen's page at the University of Virginia
Jennifer's article in Cinema Journal, "Can Moving Pictures Speak?: Film, Speech, and Social Science in Early Twentieth-Century Law" (PDF preview for non-SCMS member here)
Mutual v. Ohio (1915)
Kalem Co. v. Harper Brothers (1911)
Pathé Exchange (plaintiff in Pathé v. Cobb (1922))
Hugo Münsterberg
Clara Bow
Sergei Eisenstein
Dialectical montage
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Nitrate film
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Abrams v. U.S. (1919)
Espionage Act of 1917
Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life
Brown v. EMA (Entertainment Merchants Association) (2011)
The "Miracle Case," i.e. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952)
Expressive Conduct
Citizens United v. FEC (2010)

Vox Scholari: Book Recommendations from the Craft of Criticism Conference

Stardom and Celebrity: Diane Negra (University College Dublin)

Demystifying Business Celebrity by Eric Guthey, Timothy Clark, and Brad Jackson

Acting and Performance: Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University)

Stanislavsky in Focus: An Acting Master for the Twenty-First Century by Sharon Marie Carnicke

Narrative: Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)

Having a Good Cry by Robyn Warhol

Paratextuality and Intertextuality: Jonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin—Madison)

"Hiding Homoeroticism in Plain View: The Fight Club DVD as Digital Closet" by Robert Alan Brookey and Robert Westerfelhaus

Authorship: Cynthia Chris (College of Staten Island)

"Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse" by Stuart Hall (you already have a copy of "Encoding/Decoding," so this link is to Hall's original typewritten manuscript)

Cultural Geography: Victoria Johnson (University of California--Irvine)