This episode features an interview with David Scott Diffrient about his recent Cinema Journal article on the controversial 1970 sex comedy Myra Breckinridge. We also bring you a report on the recent SCMS Undergraduate Conference held at Notre Dame, a "Vox Scholari" segment on the texts that got us interested in studying media, and an Aca-Media Bites in praise of administrative assistants.

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Aca-Media Bites

Administrative Professional's Day

Interview with David Scott Diffrient

David Scott Diffrient's page at Colorado State and on Twitter
David Scott Diffrient's author page at Amazon
Preview of Diffrient's article, "'Hard to Handle': Camp Criticism, Trash-Film Reception, and the Transgressive Pleasures of Myra Breckinridge" (PDF)
Myra Breckinridge on IMDB and Amazon

The 2013 SCMS Undergraduate Conference

The SCMSU conference schedule
Pam Wojcik's page at Notre Dame
Pam's blog, Feminist Mom in a Postfeminist World
Theresa Geller’s page at Grinnell College
Grinnell College’s Expanding Knowledge Initiative
Grinnell College's story about this very segment of the podcast (meta!)
  Film Studies Minor at East Carolina University
Amanda Ann Klein’s blog, Judgmental Observer, and on Twitter
Kevin Heffernan’s page at Southern Methodist University
  Film and Media Arts at SMU