Episode 24: Maybe Someone's Head Turned (August, 2015): Kristen Warner on Race and Casting in Contemporary TV; Fieldnotes Interview: Gertrud Koch

It's an exciting, exciting episode of Aca-Media to help you while away the dog days of summer. First up: Kristen Warner talks about "colorblind casting" and waxes eloquent about her love for Magic Mike XXL. Bonus: We're giving away a copy of Kristen's new book to a lucky graduate student; to enter, email your idea for a segment of Aca-Media to info@aca-media.org. Then we bring you another Fieldnotes interview excerpt, this time with distinguished German film critic and scholar Gertrud Koch. Finally, Michael and Chris talk about what television programs are keeping them out of the summer heat.

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News & Notes

Why do we call them the “dog days” of summer? 
SCMS 2016 proposals 

Kristen Warner on Race and Casting in Contemporary TV

Kristen’s page at the University of Alabama 
Kristen’s blog, Dear Black Woman 
Kristen on Twitter 
Kristen’s book, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting 
Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries 
An interesting post at Racialicious (by Kendra James and Jordan St. John) on the problematic portrayal of Bonnie in The Vampire Diaries and the contentious relationship between the writers and fans: “Why the Vampire Diaries Treatment of Bonnie Bennett and Her Fans Bites" 
The SAG-AFTRA report on casting; the report for 2007-8 (PDF)
Kristen quoted in “How Hollywood Stays White and Male” 
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 
Aisha Tyler 
Lee Daniels 
Danny Strong 

The Television Academy workshops (Faculty Seminars) 
Kristen’s journal article “The Racial Logic of Grey’s Anatomy: Shonda Rhimes and Her 'Post-Civil Rights, Post-Feminist' Series”  
Shonda Rhimes 
Grey’s Anatomy 
Isaiah Washington (Dr. Preston Burke on Grey’s Anatomy) 
Chandra Wilson (Dr. Miranda Bailey on Grey’s Anatomy) 
Mara Brock Akil 
Being Mary Jane (Mara Brock Akil’s show on BET) 
Scandal 
Joe Morton (Olivia Pope’s father Rowan on Scandal) 
The Scandal scene where Rowan Pope says (loudly, strongly) that black people have to be twice as good to get half as much 
Selma 
Darnell Hunt on Hollywood’s pattern of reaction to racial diversity crises (PDF)
Black-ish 
Fresh Off the Boat 
How to Get Away With Murder 
The Wire 
Homicide: Life on the Street 
David Simon 
Television pilot season 
Duplass Brothers Productions 
Woody Allen 
Jill Soloway 
Orange is the New Black 

Kristen’s blog entry on Magic Mike XXL and her Antenna piece on the film 
Channing Tatum 
Adam Rodríguez 
Jada Pinkett Smith 
Michael Strahan 
Jodeci’s “Freek 'N You” 
My Mad Fat Diary 

GRAD STUDENTS! Email us a segment idea and win a copy of Kristen’s new book 

Fieldnotes Interview: Gertrud Koch

The Fieldnotes home page, including the complete interview with Gertrud Koch 
Gertrud’s page at the Freie Universität Berlin and on Wikipedia (in German) 
Robin Curtis at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf 

Siegfried Kracauer 
Walter Benjamin 
Theodor Adorno 
The Frankfurt School 
New German Critique 
Christian Metz 
Béla Balázs
Rudolf Arnheim 
André Bazin 
Cahiers du Cinema 
Frauen und Film 
Helke Sander 
Laura Mulvey 
Mary Ann Doane 
Kaja Silverman 
Anne Friedberg 
Miriam Hansen 
Heide Schlüpmann at Amazon 
David Bordwell; his blog (with Kristin Thompson), Observations on Film Art
Buster Keaton 
Louis Feuillade 
A post on the Nazi takeover of the film industry by Karen Kenneally 
New German Cinema 

What We’re Watching

Chicago Cubs 
True Detective 
BoJack Horseman 
Waterskiing for beginners