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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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”