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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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