Media Literate

MediaLiterate
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Media Literate

A bunch of grad students gather to discuss the big (and not so big) questions of film and media on their chaotic, anxiety-ridden journey to become “media literate.”

  1. 05/13/2022

    Episode 28: Graduation Day

    Hey, almost everybody who worked on this podcast is receiving their degrees today! In honor of this momentous occasion, the Media Literate team organized an adorably tiny "conference" with some panels of our most frequent guests to let them talk to each other for once instead of being stuck with Kim and Laura. It's a mushy, feel-good finale. Thanks for listening.

    1h 11m

  2. 05/06/2022

    Episode 27: Cinema. Fourth Cinema

    Sebastian returns from an epic voyage through the James Bond franchise to tell Kim and Laura about one of its low points—or high points, depending on how you look at it—Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day (2002).   Some cool articles for further inquiry:   Barry Barclay, “Celebrating Fourth Cinema”: https://www.academia.edu/4905111/Printed_in_Illusions_Magazine_NZ_July_2003_CELEBRATING_FOURTH_CINEMA  Cynthia Baron, “Doctor No: Bonding Britishness to Racial Sovereignty”: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_James_Bond_Phenomenon/x9-1QY5boUsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover  Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322328154_On_the_importance_of_a_date_or_decolonizing_the_Anthropocene  T.J. Demos, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today: https://icamiami-org.storage.googleapis.com/2017/06/dc83ec96-mirzoeff-demos_anthropocene-proofs-jan2017.pdf Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822385981/html?lang=en Jamie Shinhee Lee, “North Korea, South Korea, and 007 Die Another Day”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405900701464865 Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781478021445/html Emiel Martens, Once Were Warriors: The Aftermath: The Controversy of OWW in Aotearoa New Zealand: https://www.amazon.com/Once-were-Warriors-Aftermath-Controversy/dp/9052602360 Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interrupts: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822376781/html Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, “Toward a Third Cinema”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41685716  Vanessa Watts, “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour!)”: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/19145

    1h 10m

  3. 04/23/2022

    Episode 26: The Revolution Will Not Be Gamified

    Bri returns to drop some more game studies knowledge on Kim and Laura's heads, this time thinking about the question of agency. What does it mean to make choices in games, particularly when it comes to games that tell stories of resistance and revolution? Is there a "right" or a "wrong" ending to these games?   Some cool links for further inquiry: States and Social Revolutions by Theda Skocpol: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=so0gddc0w3UC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=states+and+social+revolution&ots=ISK9OtQSqV&sig=wnDcQ0qzUh_IzgYE9xE6LCB-iEw#v=onepage&q=states%20and%20social%20revolution&f=false Muriel, Daniel and Garry Crawford. "Video games and agency within neoliberalism and participatory culture." Video games as Culture: The Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society. Routledge, 2018

    55 min

  4. 04/16/2022

    Hot Take Two - Episode 2: So, The Oscars...

    Kim Henry joins Julia Elizabeth Evans to reflect on the biggest night of the year in Hollywood—the good, the bad, and the cringe.

    38 min

  5. 03/18/2022

    Episode 25: All About Our Mothers

    It's a mom appreciation episode! Kim, Laura, and Daniela try to parse through Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" while considering their own mothers and how they influenced their love of film. No, Kim and Laura don't understand the movie, but hey, they've still got a whole two months left in their Master's program to figure it all out.

    1 hr

  6. 03/04/2022

    Episode 24: The First Official Media Literate Coven Meeting

    Julia welcomes Kim and Laura to her new coven with a conversation about witches and anthropology.   Some cool links for further inquiry: What Type of Witch Are You?https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1/what-type-of-witch-are-you Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mules_and_Men/tz62QRx_gE0C?hl=en&gbpv=0 - Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Witch/RDYuDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati, “Expedition Content”: https://ek.klingt.org/expeditioncontent.html E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Witchcraft_Oracles_and_Magic_Among_the_A/z7dFEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Chick Strand, “Notes on Ethnographic Film by a Film Artist”: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/catalog/6643

    1 hr

  7. 02/26/2022

    Snack Episode 12: [Post]Socialism

    Everything you need to know about Post-Socialism. Just in time, too.

    9 min

  8. 02/22/2022

    Hot Take Two - Episode 1: Can Hollywood Just Chill?

    Our producer Julia Elizabeth Evans takes a second to process industry news with our host Laura. Together, they circle back and work out their thoughts about the 2021 Rust set tragedy, the fall 2021 IAETSE strike, Hollywood’s culture of urgency, and the industry-wide conversation around safety on set.

    17 min
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A bunch of grad students gather to discuss the big (and not so big) questions of film and media on their chaotic, anxiety-ridden journey to become “media literate.”

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  • Creator
    MediaLiterate
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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    Media Literate

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