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A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

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    • Ep. 82: After Mass Media with Melanie Kohnen and Amanda Lotz
    • Ep. 81: Mike Miley & David Lynch’s American Dreamscape
    • 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
    • Ep. 75: Academic Publishing Roundtable
    • 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 (Farrah 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. 80: Jordan Sjol Interviews José Rivera
    • Ep. 79: SCMS25 Live Episode (GSO Rep, Matt Payne, AJ Christian)
    • Ep73: Thinking With Our Ears: Jacob Smith on Audio Scholarship
    • Ep71: Justin Rawlins on Method Acting
    • Ep70: Jordan Sjol and Medium Specificity
    • Ep69: Reality TV Labor and Unionization Efforts
    • Ep67: Reflections on the SCMS Conference
    • Ep58: Faye Wanted You To Find Her
    • Ep51: A Culture of Access
    • Ep49: Pretty Good for the Dog Days of Summer
    • Ep36: I Don't Think I Have the Option to Remain Silent
    • Ep34: Redoubled My Devotion to Teaching
    • Ep13: A Bumbershoot is a Brolly
    • Ep9: I'm Sure It's Nothing: War of the Worlds Episode
    • Ep7: My Gut Goes the Way Your Gut Goes
    • Presenting the Past Ep. 6: National Public Radio with Bill Siemering
    • Presenting the Past Ep5: Latino Empowerment Part 1
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December 16, 2020 by Chris Becker
Ep. 56: Fascinating Brain Matter
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