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    • Ep. 80: Jordan Sjol Interviews José Rivera
    • Ep. 79: SCMS25 Live Episode (with GSO Rep, Matt Payne, and AJ Christian)
    • Ep. 78: Swapnil Rai on Bollywood Stars and Podcast Pedagogy
    • Ep. 77: Journalists at the 2024 Olympics/Paralympics
    • Ep. 76: Maggie Hennefeld on the Cultural Politics of Women’s Laughter
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    • Ep. 74: Wiseman Podcast (Shawn Glinis and Arlin Golden)
    • Ep. 73: Thinking With Our Ears: Jacob Smith on Audio Scholarship
    • Ep. 72: Live in Boston at SCMS 2024 (Vicky Johnson, Leslie LeMond, Aniko Bodroghkozy)
    • Ep. 71: Justin Rawlins on Method Acting
    • Ep. 70: Jordan Sjol and Medium Specificity
    • Ep. 69: Reality TV Labor and Unionization Efforts (Andrea Ruehlicke)
    • Ep. 68: Talking to the Press about the Hollywood Labor Strikes (Kate Fortmueller and Miranda Banks)
    • Ep. 67: Reflections on the SCMS Conference Past and Future (Priscilla Peña Ovalle)
    • Ep. 66: What's New and What's Not in Precarious Labor (Finley Freibert)
    • Ep. 65: The Politics of Improv Comedy (Diana De Pasquale)
    • Ep. 64: An Obsession with Hummus (Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation)
    • Ep. 63: That's Not Funny! The Right-Wing Comedy Complex (Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx)
    • Ep. 62: Cinema Is a Cat (Daisuke Miyao)
    • Ep. 61: Interview with SCMS President Paula Massood
    • Ep. 60: Lara Logan Spreads Misinformation (Drew Zolides)
    • Ep. 59: A Whole Bunch of Cranky Academics (Dimitri Latsis, 100 Best Sitcoms list)
    • Ep. 58: Faye Wanted You to Find Her (Maureen Mauk and Mary Huelsbeck on Faye Emerson)
    • Ep. 57: Wild and Weird Stuff (Fan Studies Roundtable, Rachel Webb Jekanowski, Pansy Duncan)
    • Ep. 56: Fascinating Brain Matter (Cara Dickason, Jinsook Kim, Allison Whitney)
    • Ep. 55: Out of the Ashes and Into Academia (panel on organizing the academic workplace)
    • Ep. 54: Always Time for Humane TV (“Talking TV in a Pandemic" preview, SCMS Award Winners)
    • Ep. 53: Just a Plain Curiosity (Paul Taberham, Ryn Marchese)
    • Ep. 52: Reality Matters (Chiara Ferrari and Quinn Winchell in Matera; Fieldnotes: Thomas Elsaesser)
    • Ep. 51: A Culture of Access (Elizabeth Ellcessor and Margaret Price; Catherine Grant)
    • Ep. 50: Looking Backward and Looking Forward (Pam Wojcik, Usha Iyer)
    • Ep. 49: Pretty Good for the Dog Days of Summer (Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Kanopy)
    • Ep. 48: Double the FOMO (Streaming Roundtable, SCMS and Comic-Con)
    • Ep. 47: We Are a Sleep-Deprived Group (Al Martin and Michael Newman on SCMS award committees)
    • Ep. 46: New Year, New Opportunities (B. Ruby Rich, Derek Kompare on being chair)
    • Ep. 45: Be Good to Each Other (Job Market part 2)
    • Ep. 44: Can a Game Make You Cry? (Job Market part 1, Felan Parker on Ebert and Video Games)
    • Ep. 43: Very Special Episode (Precarity in US and UK academia)
    • Ep. 42: We’re All in This Together (“Teaching in Trump Times,” Fieldnotes: Hamid Naficy)
    • Ep. 41: Held Together By an Ampersand (Caetlin Benson-Allott, Alisa Perren & Charlotte E. Howell)
    • Ep. 40: Explode Out of the Chimney onto the Public Sphere (Will Brooker, Maggie Hennefeld)
    • Ep. 39: There’s More to Newark Than Whole Foods (Amanda Lotz, Brandon Arroyo)
    • Ep. 38: This Really Is Summer (Angelo Restivo, FieldNotes: Lynn Spigel)
    • Ep. 37: A Much More Open Listening Practice (Steven Cohan, Alec Badenoch on Radio Garden)
    • Ep. 36: I Don’t Think I Have the Option to Remain Silent (2016 election and protests)
    • Ep. 35: Radio Free South Bend (Stephanie Brown, PodcastRE.org, Paul Douglas Grant)
    • Ep. 34: Redoubled My Devotion to Teaching (Susan Ohmer, Leslie LeMond)
    • Ep. 33: Partake in the Factional Wrangle (Kirk Combe and Sangeet Kumar, Cynthia Meyers)
    • Ep. 32: Following My Fascinations (Chuck Tryon, Fieldnotes: Constance Penley)
    • Ep. 31: Shape the Sonic Space (SCMS Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group)
    • Ep. 30: Something You Do, Not Something You Study (Academy Film Archive, Nicholas Mirzoeff)
    • Ep. 29: Creating a Space (Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, SCMS Latino/a Caucus)
    • Ep. 28: Everything You Thought You Knew Is Going to Dissolve, But- (Film Matters, Tom Gunning)
    • Ep. 27: A Much Broader Context of the Medium Out There (Jun Okada, Grad student-run journals)
    • Ep. 26: A Chill in the Air (Vicky Johnson on Sports Fandom, Lisa Schmidt on Horror, Elana Levine)
    • Ep. 25: How Improvisational It All Is (Debra Ramsey, Fieldnotes: James Naremore)
    • Ep. 24: Maybe Someone's Head Turned (Kristen Warner; Fieldnotes: Gertrud Koch)
    • Ep. 23: What Academics Think is Fun (Jill Simpson, Jennifer Proctor)
    • Ep. 22: To Get to the Heart of It (Austin Fisher, Miichele Hilmes Tribute)
    • Ep. 21: It's Not About the Money (Jon Lewis, SCMS Montreal preview)
    • Ep. 20: Three Times as Many Laughs (Jeremy Butler, Fieldnotes: Linda Williams)
    • Ep. 19: I Love to Hear Those Stories (Rielle Navitski, Fieldnotes: Thomas Elsaesser)
    • Ep. 18: You're Gonna Scare Him Again (Jennifer Hyland Wang, SCMS Undergrad Conference)
    • Ep. 17: A Confidence In Our Form (Courtney Brannon Donoghue, [in]Transition)
    • Ep. 16: Almost an International Incident (Jennifer Petersen, Vox Scholari: Book Recommendations)
    • Ep. 15: How You're Supposed to Act on TV (Luke Stadel, Standalone MA Programs)
    • Ep. 14: Dirty Movies (Julie Wilson, Teaching Experimental Film and Media Roundtable)
    • Ep. 13: A Bumbershoot is a Brolly (SCMS conference: Angelo Restivo, Bruce Brasell, Seattle Sights)
    • Ep. 12: Things That are Now Natural to Us (Michael Slowik, Grrrls Night Out)
    • Ep. 11: A Tricky Set of Layers (Michael W. Harris, SCMS Scholarly Interest Groups)
    • Ep. 10: We Might Have to be More Vulgar (Mary Beltrán, UFVA Conference)
    • Ep. 9: I'm Sure It's Nothing (War of the Worlds episode, Neil Verma)
    • Ep. 8: Like Falling Off a Horse (Peabody Awards, Hollis Griffin)
    • Ep. 7: My Gut Goes the Way Your Gut Goes (Josh Heuman, George Zimmerman verdict roundtable)
    • Ep. 6: It's Like a Scavenger Hunt (Paula Amad interview, Pedagogy Roundtable)
    • Ep. 5: Surprise Can Mean All Kinds of Things (Horace Newcomb, Aviva Dove-Viebahn)
    • Ep. 4: Please Mister, We'd Like to Put on a Show! (David Scott Diffrient, 2013 SCMSU)
    • Ep. 3: Longer Than Some Marriages (Justin Horton, SCMS 2013 coverage, SCMS presidents)
    • Ep. 2: More Dash Than Hyphen (Yvonne Tasker, Atlanta Media Industries Project, SCMS advice)
    • Ep. 1: Ceci N'est Pas Un Podcast (Will Brooker, Flow, Alex Doty)
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    • Ep. 79: SCMS25 Live Episode (GSO Rep, Matt Payne, AJ Christian)
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    • Ep71: Justin Rawlins on Method Acting
    • Ep70: Jordan Sjol and Medium Specificity
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    • Ep67: Reflections on the SCMS Conference
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Paul Taberham, animation for Ratatouille, Ryn Marchese, some of the interviewees of the Woman series

Paul Taberham, animation for Ratatouille, Ryn Marchese, some of the interviewees of the Woman series

Episode 53: Just a Plain Curiosity (March, 2020)

March 19, 2020 by Chris Becker

SCMS is cancelled but the content rolls on! This episode of Aca-Media brings you a fascinating interview with Paul Taberham about animation and the avant-garde, including some great tips for teaching difficult media. Then Ryn Marchese discusses the amazing work being done at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Finally, Chris and Michael banter about how they are spending their self-isolation.

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Opening Banter 

The Memory Palace, “The Newest News”
Aca-Media takes you to Matera

Animation and the Avant-Garde with Paul Taberham

Paul Taberham’s page at Arts University Bournemouth
Lessons in Perception
Tim Smith, Birkbeck, University of London
The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI)
Joseph Anderson, Reality of Illusion
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Paul Sharits, 'I Was a Flawed Modernist': Collected Writings of and Stories about Paul Sharits
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film
Michael Snow, Back and Forth description and on YouTube
William Wees, Light Moving in Time
Robert Breer
James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order
J.J. Murphy
Stan Brakhage
Sirius Remembered description and on YouTube
The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes description and on YouTube
Jonas Mekas
Adventures in Perception: Stan Brakhage in His Own Words
Oskar Fischinger, Fischinger at Disney, or Oskar in the Mousetrap (Excerpt)
Michel Gagné, Gagné’s animation for Ratatouille and conceptual artwork
Jan Švankmajer, Dimensions of Dialogue description and on Vimeo
Taberham’s YouTube series
What is the REF?
What is the TEF?
Knowledge Exchange Framework
Jerrold Levinson
Paul Wells, Understanding Animation
Maureen Furniss, Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics
Plato’s Aesthetics
Taberham, “A General Aesthetics of American Animation Sound Design”

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Social Media Links for the AAPB: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
The Transcribe to Digitize Challenge JUST ended after I finished the segment. You can read about the results here.
Fix It and Fix It Plus - But – you can still contribute your time to help transcribe digitized audio here.
Resources for participating organizations (you can find Ryn’s e-mail address here)
NPR’s Mission Current Statement
An interview with Bill Siemering from Radio Diaries
AAPB’s Exhibits Page
Special Collections Page
Newshour Collection
LGBTQ + Collection
Woman Series

Selection of The American Experience Raw Interviews:
1964
Freedom Riders
Stonewall Uprising
Interview with Emmett Till’s Mother
Interview with Rosa Parks

Closing Banter

Schitt’s Creek
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9 on Britbox
Watchmen
Tulsa race massacre
Aca-Media on Twitter

March 19, 2020 /Chris Becker

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