Recorded just before the inauguration, this episode takes two oblique angles on politics. First, Stephanie Brown discusses helping students’ find their voice through a podcast assignment for her “Sex and Gender in the Media” class and shares snippets her students’ work. Speaking of podcasts, Chris and Michael discuss PodcastRE.org, an exciting new project for podcast fans and (especially) scholars. Then we bring you an interview with Paul Douglas Grant on political filmmaking and the role of the translator in film studies. Finally, as part of a new project on Protecting the Commons, we encourage you to send in YOUR audio of your responses and reactions to the new regime for episode 36: info@aca-media.org.

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News & Notes

Father Coughlin
The Army-McCarthy Hearings

Podcast Class Assignment

Teaching Media Website
Original Podcast Assignment
Adapted Podcast Assignment
Podcast Bootcamp Overview
Music: “Take Me Higher” by Jahzzar (from The Free Music Archive)
Interviewees: Andrea Ruehlicke, Ashvini Malshe, Shana Pembroke, Nicolette Simmons, Samantha Garcia, Taylor Russo
Podcast Snippets / Students and Topics: See Below

PodcastRE
Jeremy Morris at the University of Wisconsin—Madison

Paul Douglas Grant interview

Paul Douglas Grant’s Cinéma Militant: Political Filmmaking and May 1968
David Fresko's page at Indiana University, Bloomington
Postcards from the Cinema by Serge Daney, translated by Paul Douglas Grant
Serge Daney
Kim's Video and Music on Avenue A in New York City
Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967)
The Dziga Vertov Group
Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep (1996)
Nicole Brenez interview in Cinética
Situationist International
Resumption of Work at the Wonder Factory (1968)
Alain Badiou
Maoism
The Cultural Revolution
The Khmer Rouge
Apparatus theory
On Cinétique and other French film journals
Cahiers du cinéma
Positif
The Ordinary Man of Cinema by Jean Louis Schefer, translated by Max Cavitch, Noura Wedell, and Paul Douglas Grant
Regarding D.M. Estabaya’s writing on Visayan cinema: information on Visayas and its cinema
Regarding Philippine regional cinemas: here is Paul Douglas Grant in La Furia Umana, “Cinema Becoming Regional, Unbecoming Cinema”
Michèle Firk

Closing Banter and Protecting the Commons

You Had One Job
Carol Vernallis
Partners in the Protecting the Commons project
Film International
Film Criticism
In Focus (Cinema Journal)
REFRAME
Aca-Media (click to send us your audio)
SCMS 2017 Conference in Chicago

Addendum: Podcast Snippets / Students and Topics for Stephanie Brown's MACS/GWS 356 class:

Cultural Appropriation and Rachel Dolezal
Giuseppina Dimartino
Alexandra Hardwick
Joanna Piphus
Vincenzo Spagnola
Ashley Williams

Beauty, Aging, and Plastic Surgery
Madyson Bunton
Julie Schreiner
Jessica Tuohy
Katie Weeks

Body Size in the Media
Monica Alvarez
Katrice Hodges Perkins
Tiara Jackson
Brianna Lockett
Jennifer Zavala

Hegemonic Femininity in Workplace Sitcoms
Brianna Dye
Samantha Garcia
Gina Gonnella
Isabella Jackson
Margaret Olofson

Women in Comedy
Kortney Carr
Andrea Garcia Sheridan
Baylee Hussain
June Shin
Louise Weaver

Cultural Appropriation of the Body
Char-Li Ali
Daniele Anderson
Effrain Berrocal
America Guerra

Wedding Dresses and Wedding Media
Nicole Fisher
India Hoffman
Nicolette Simmons
Matea Zaper

Female Pleasure and Censorship in Film
Paulina Dabrowska
Ashvini Malshe
Shana Pembroke
Mariah Shaefer
Eva Vignola

Gendered Toys and Target
Gabriella Guerra
Jack Heydon
Mitchell Kim
Megan Maidens
Eric Mo

Sex, Aging, and “Cougars”
Maria Sophie Gladitsch
Laureanna Martinez
Amy Pan
Alyssa Solis
Haoyue Tang

Thanks to all the students in MACS/GWS 356!