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Episode 25: How Improvisational It All Is (September, 2015): Teaching Tips; Debra Ramsay on War-Based Video Games; Fieldnotes Interview: James Naremore

September 13, 2015 by Chris Becker

Fall is here and the semester has begun. Michael and Chris share some teaching tips, and we'd also like to hear your teaching tips: email us at info@aca-media.org.

Our Cinema Journal Presents segment features Debra Ramsay discussing war-based video games like Call of Duty. Then we bring you another Fieldnotes interview, this time with film scholar James Naremore, expert on Welles and Hitchcock.

Finally, we reveal the winner of our book giveaway and issue a call for more folks to help out with the Aca-Media podcast. Please email us at info@aca-media.org if you'd like to be part of the production team.

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Do college professors work hard enough?
What professors do all day
Teaching resources from SCMS
Send us your teaching tips at info@aca-media.org

CJ Presents: Debra Ramsay

Debra Ramsay’s page at Exeter and at Academia 
Debra’s CJ article, “Brutal Games: Call of Duty and the Cultural Narrative of World War II” (PDF preview here; manuscript also available here)
Debra’s book, American Media and the Memory of World War II 
Debra’s Afterthoughts and Postscripts essay, “Reflections on History in Games and Games in History”

The Call of Duty video game franchise and at Wikipedia
First-person shooters 
Nina Huntemann 
Matt Payne 
Nina and Matt’s co-edited volume, Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games 
Joel Penney 
Call of Duty: World at War 
Peleliu and the Battle of Peleliu during World War II 
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 
Cognitive behavioral therapy 

George C. Scott’s opening speech in Patton:  “Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
Sands of Iwo Jima
John Wayne 
Atlantic Monthly article, “Playing War: How the Military Uses Video Games”

James Naremore

James Naremore’s page at Indiana University, at Wikipedia, and at Amazon 
Jake Smith’s page at Northwestern University 
Complete James Naremore interview (and all Fieldnotes interviews) 

Deems Taylor and Marcelene Peterson, A Pictorial History of the Movies 
Martin Scorsese 
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht’s autobiography, A Child of the Century: The Autobiography of Ben Hecht 
James Agee
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies 
David Bordwell 
Virginia Woolf 
Arden of Faversham 

Harry Geduld 
Charles W. Eckert’s Focus on Shakespearean Films 
The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris
Theory of Film Practice by Noel Burch
Robin Wood 
Raymond Durgnat 
Naremore’s The World Without a Self: Virginia Woolf and the Novel 
Naremore’s essay in Literature/Film Quarterly, “John Huston and the Maltese Falcon” 
Orson Welles 
James Joyce, Dubliners 
Naremore’s Filmguide to Psycho 
Psycho 
Alfred Hitchcock 

Sulphur, Louisiana 
It’s a Wonderful Life 
The Shadow and Orson Welles’s famous opening 
Citizen Kane 
The Boy Magician: 156 Amazing Tricks & Sleights of Hand (Popular Mechanics) 
Journey Into Fear 

Dudley Andrew 
Film Art by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (11th Edition, due in 2016) 
More on Film Art at David Bordwell’s website 
Analysis projector demo on YouTube 
Raymond Bellour 
Robert Frost 
Naremore’s recent essay at Cine-Files, “Clara Bow in Mantrap” 

Closing Credits

Joel Neville Anderson 
Can you help us out at Aca-Media?  Contact us at info@aca-media.org

September 13, 2015 /Chris Becker
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