It's a spooky, mystery-filled Halloween for the Aca-Media team. Chris has just moved into a new house, only to discover that it might be haunted. While she and Michael investigate (luckily our SCMS grant enabled us to afford a deflux modulator!), we bring you a "Cinema Journal Classics" interview with Jennifer Hyland Wang about her 2000 CJ piece on Forrest Gump. Then we give you a tour of last year's SCMS Undergraduate Conference and a preview of what you can expect from next year's … if the ghost doesn’t get you first!

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Cinema Journal Presents: Jennifer Hyland Wang

Jennifer Hyland Wang, "'A Struggle of Contending Stories': Race, Gender, and Political Memory in Forrest Gump" (PDF preview here)
“I Re-watched Forrest Gump So No One Else Ever Has To”
Amazon: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump
Amazon: The Wit and Wisdom of Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
Murphy Brown (1988-1998)
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (trailer here)
The Atlantic: “Let’s Stop Calling Lee Daniels’ The Butler the New Forrest Gump”
“I’m Still Not Over … The series finale of Will & Grace”
The Colbert Report: “Truthiness”
The Oatmeal: What Would Don Draper Do?
No joke, Jordan found an article comparing George W. Bush to Forrest Gump
Pleasantville – we cut the reference from the final version of the interview, but you can watch the trailer here

SCMS Undergraduate Conference

SCMS-U 2015 call for papers
Gus Cook, Emory University
David Cronenberg
Kristi Kouchakji, Concordia University (Montreal)
The Act of Killing (trailer)
Laurie Polisky, Film Studies at Grinnell
“25 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie Fight Club”
Bryan Norton, Radio-TV-Film at California State University, Fullerton
The Girl from Chicago (1932): full film on YouTube
Allegra Tepper, Honors in Multimedia Scholarship at the University of Southern California
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Cade Johnson, Film Studies at Smith College
Supernatural (2005-present)
Alexandra Keller at Smith College

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The Exorcist
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Ghost Hunters
Make your own deflux modulator: just reverse the polarity on this baby