Media Literate

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Laura and Kim enlist Ann's help in understanding what it is about early film she loves so much—other than the fact that Buster Keaton can definitely get it, which they understand completely. Some cool links for further inquiry: Mary Ann Doane, "The Indexical and the Concept of Medium Specificity" https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-abstract/18/1/128/97676/The-Indexical-and-the-Concept-of-Medium   Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" http://www.columbia.edu/itc/film/gaines/historiography/Gunning.pdf

From cultural norms to political values to stereotypes—learn all about Antonio Gramsci and his essential contributions to the concept of 'hegemony' on this week's Snack Episode, with special guest, PhD student Dan Lark. Some cool references for further inquiry:  How Gramsci Went Global" by Marzia Maccaferri: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/how-gramsci-went-global Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary by Giussepe Fiori (1990) Antonio Gramsci: Architect of a New Politics by Dante L. Germino (1990) The Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/prison-notebooks/9780231157551 "The world world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci

Attention ladies and gentleman of the ton, Media Literate is back for the new social season with romance scholar and absolute legend Jackie Johnson, who joins Kim and Laura for a chat about the racial politics of Bridgerton (2020-). What does it mean to be "race-blind?" And how do the implications of a story change when adapting a book to film with actors of color?   Some cool sources for further inquiry: Aymar Jean Christian, Open TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/9781479814909/html Jayashree Kamblé, Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mUBvBAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=jayashree+kamble&ots=8QxOGBUBwZ&sig=seFvWyylkW95zs233pJygEVo1bI#v=onepage&q&f=false Sarah Brouillette, “Romance Work”: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/722834/pdf?casa_token=LzDajTFXir0AAAAA:gCEFVrR_sw73KQdcZFQGUzDnDh-QanC9pXXqdEP705hjnHoZq36X0skrqgDGEzhplOV0pw1D7Q

It's finally mildly chilly in Los Angeles, so grab a cup of cocoa (or something stronger) and get cozy. Kim and Laura are talking about their favorite Christmas movies in an extended Canon Fodder segment that in classic Canon Fodder tradition mostly doesn't mention any of the actual Christmas movie canon.

This week's snack episode is led by Daniela Velazco, who teaches us the roots and importance of Chicanx cinema. Learn how these Mexican-American filmmakers started, what motivated the stories they tell, and why their films especially relevant in our modern, transnational context.

Kim and Laura return to their ongoing conversation on futurity with Sebastian, who talks with them about Indigenous time and conceptions of the future. Some cool links for further inquiry: Incident at Restigouche: https://www.nfb.ca/film/incident_at_restigouche/ The Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZsdgfo11w&t=3s File Under Miscellaneous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SEyAs-FSHQ&t=360s The 6th World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4Jm0y_iLk Lindsey Catherine Cornum, “The Creation Story is a Spaceship: Indigenous Futurism and Decolonial Deep Space”: http://www.vozavoz.ca/feature/lindsay-catherine-cornum Grace L. Dillon (ed.), Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/walking-the-clouds N.K. Jemisin, “How Long 'Til Black Future Month?”: https://nkjemisin.com/2013/09/how-long-til-black-future-month/ Mark Rifkin, Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination: https://www.dukeupress.edu/beyond-settler-time Leslie Marmon Silko, “Long time ago”: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx3b2xmZWttaHN8Z3g6NTg2MTk3YWU0NmUwYjVjNQ Kali Simmons, “Reorientations; or, An Indigenous Feminist Reflection on the Anthropocene”: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/717132/pdf?casa_token=9A_HWUnJtvAAAAAA:LWQmXYA0-HhA-gTz5MuF8UqIt6sNVlYwOoxDWPiNgXlV4Jg3PRoee8PZQgkUE0Oupc5k9Xwf5g Zoe Todd, “Indigenizing the Anthropocene”: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/3118244/7-Todd,-Zoe,-Indigenizing-the-Anthropocene.pdf Interview with Jeff Barnaby: https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/jeff-barnaby-is-worried-white-people-wont-get-blood-quantum.html Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medialiteratepodcast/ Music credit: Fawn Wood

Returning guest, Sebastian, comes to explain everything important about Fourth Cinema and its roots in media history...in 4 minutes. Learn about numbered cinema and what comes next in this week's Snack Episode.

Ann returns once again, this time for a chat with Kim and Laura about the power of celebrity in the United States and China and its role in projecting national influence around the world. Plus, Kim and Laura share some of their most embarrassing celebrity hangups.   Some cool links for further info: Ann McCarthy, "Reality Television: A Neoliberal Theater of Suffering": https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Mccarthy-2/publication/249880817_Reality_Television_A_Neoliberal_Theater_of_Suffering/links/556c098108aeccd7773a228c/Reality-Television-A-Neoliberal-Theater-of-Suffering.pdf Sarah Banet-Weiser, Authentic(TM): https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/9780814739372/html  

Kim and Laura are joined by Ph.D. student Maddie Hawk for a chat about the history of Korean media up to and including Squid Game. Why is it so big right now, and what do we miss about it when we don't have the proper context?

Just in time for the Spooky Holidays, our newest Short-Form Snack Episode invites back Charlotte Scurlock to teach us the history and use of the horror genre term: abjection. 

Get ready for a very wholesome airing of grievances. Laura and Kim bring on a brand-new team member, MFA student Julia Elizabeth Evans, to settle the centuries-old (probably) rivalry between film studies and film production. Is the author really dead, as this podcast has been saying for months now? Let's see what an author thinks.   Some cool links for further inquiry: Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author: https://sites.tufts.edu/english292b/files/2012/01/Barthes-The-Death-of-the-Author.pdf   T.J. Demos, Beyond the World's End: Arts of Living at the Crossing: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=UnH0DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=tj+demos+beyond+the+end+of+the+world&ots=zRTBDwZOdi&sig=dK3itlCSaYLVCxnpWKRCjQ2MeXM#v=onepage&q&f=false   Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema": http://johnniewilcox.com/courses/20051/postmodernism/files/articles/20050131mulvey.pdf   Marc Siegel, "The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-wai": https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Bmihe5fRwV4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP13&dq=marc+siegel+at+full+speed&ots=bHHyrZl2iS&sig=5ephdhHON1bSsh-VxfQoAdxoN2U#v=onepage&q=marc%20siegel%20at%20full%20speed&f=false   The IATSE strike: https://iatse.net/by-a-nearly-unanimous-margin-iatse-members-in-tv-and-film-production-vote-to-authorize-a-nationwide-strike/   https://www.juliaelizabethevans.com/

In this early-release Snack Episode, Julia Elizabeth Evans discusses the recent IATSE strike rippling through the media production world, and explains why it matters for you and the shows you care about.    Want to learn more about the updated agreement between Producers and Film Crew Members? "Hollywood Strike Averted As IATSE & AMPTP Reach Deal On New Film & TV" Contracthttps://deadline.com/2021/10/hollywood-strike-averted-iatse-amptp-reach-agreement-on-new-film-tv-contract-1234850563/  

From the The Odyssey to Saving Private Ryan (1998), why are War stories so prevalent in our culture, and what purpose do they serve? Join us with the return of Kevin, who finally tells us the truth about his Twilight journey, and dive into the reasons behind memorialization in War Films. 

We're back with our Third Season! Listen to the return of Colton, who joins Kim and Laura to tell them all about Hayao Miyazaki and the possibility of media to shape our perspectives on the environment and the future.   Some cool links for further inquiry: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, "A look inside 'The Mushroom at the End of the World'": https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-look-inside-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world   Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene": https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.001.0001/oso-9780190696771

Ann returns to drop some glorious archive knowledge on Laura and Kim. What even is an archive? Why do they exist? What's the best way to maintain one for the future? PLUS, check out Ann's amazing documentary on family archives: https://vimeo.com/597358678 We're going to be taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for a while as we prepare for Season 3, so to help bear the absence of your biweekly dose of grad student panic check us out on our brand new Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medialiteratepodcast/ Some cool links for further inquiry: Anthony Slide - Nitrate Won't Wait: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HZIq5-_hu5cC&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=nitrate+won%27t+wait&ots=ujBhoLohcX&sig=LVbvIC8zH8WUBuQ5NFQfAKnKjsI#v=onepage&q=nitrate%20won%27t%20wait&f=false Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Qj1kDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=saidiya+hartman+wayward+lives&ots=VZ8ztVQOMm&sig=6-d9gi38sF8NNTXRZ5esPnqzW3E#v=onepage&q=saidiya%20hartman%20wayward%20lives&f=false

After successfully navigating our brief liminal space of the summer between semesters, Lilla joins this week to discuss the origins of Cultural Liminality and it's relationship to film and media. Learn where liminality comes from, why it matters, and how it relates to films like Brooklyn (2015) and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) on this week's Snack Episode. 

Kim, Laura, and Ziwei talk about the film versus digital debate (what is it? What does it mean? Does it matter?) and whether the idea of the "virtual" is brand-new or centuries old.   A whole lot of cool links for further inquiry:   "The Virtual Life of Film" D. N. Rodowick https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjf9v4j   "The Virtual Window" Anne Friedberg https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uIv-DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT9&dq=ann+friedberg+the+virtual+window&ots=i8nvmn2Vqj&sig=jIIWATei7PKPGmWC4BhWUZhqGlo#v=onepage&q=ann%20friedberg%20the%20virtual%20window&f=false "Television: Technology and Cultural Forum" Raymond Williams https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203426647/television-raymond-williams "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" Marshall McLuhan https://designopendata.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf "Camera Lucida" Roland Barthes https://monoskop.org/images/c/c5/Barthes_Roland_Camera_Lucida_Reflections_on_Photography.pdf   "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Walter Benjamin https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf

Sabrina returns to try to explain game studies to Kim and Laura, who know nothing about game studies. Or games. Looking at the horror video game Until Dawn, they discuss how empathy and identification function in gameplay—both the positives and the negatives.   A cool link for further inquiry: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/brecht-interruptions-and-epic-theatre

Well, at least as much of that truth you can get in 3 min. Join us this week as Charlotte discusses Neoliberalism's roots, alongside its early founders and handful of shortcomings. 

Kim and Laura welcome newcomer Brian Smith to reflect on some developments that have shaken up the the entertainment industry in the past year and discuss the shifting culture around film viewing. Will AMC survive the shift to streaming? Will the government ever regulate the film industry again? Will Julia forgive Kim for her slights against the French? Only time will tell. A single cool link for further inquiry: Tom Gunning's "The Cinema of Attraction" https://film110.pbworks.com/f/Gunning+Cinema+of+Attractions.pdf

As if romance movies weren't already unrealistic enough, Guest Host Julia helps explain why queer relationships are often even more removed from realism in our media. Join us on this week's Snack Episode to learn everything you need to know about Queer Time and why it matters in our media today. 

Julia, Kim, and Laura look back on some of their most formative shows and discuss the great missteps of queer representation that characterized so much of 2000s media. Cool links for further inquiry:   Shipping it: https://shippingit.tumblr.com/ Sex and the City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEIWg6pV9g0&list=PLacz53F9hQwaRlJSBhZli1z80O4KdX-fZ  

How are photos really made? Why is the room always dark? What's up with the red lights?? On this week's Snack Episode, Guest Host Ann teaches Colton all about the enigmas of dark room photography, and how filmmakers and photographers truly master the art of Light Bending. Tune in to Media Literate's Snack Episodes to learn everything you never knew, you never knew about darkroom photography.        

Okay, not really, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a quick and easy listicle that could tell you how to engage with cinema created by marginalized groups? Instead, this week Sebastian returns to talk indigenous cinema with Kim and Laura. Looking at Lee Tamahori's 1994 film Once Were Warriors, they discuss how the concepts of authorship and "death of the author" apply when it comes to indigenous films, and try to figure out what it means to be a responsible viewer. Some cool links for further inquiry: “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes: http://sites.tufts.edu/english292b/files/2012/01/Barthes-The-Death-of-the-Author.pdf Our Own Image: A Story of a Maori Filmmaker by Barry Barclay: https://www-jstor-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/stable/10.5749/j.ctt189ttts “Reclaiming Māori Image” by Leonie Pihama: https://tewhareporahou.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/reclaiming-maori-image/ “Taxonomies of Indigeneity: Indigenous Heterosexual Patriarchal Masculinity” by Brendan Hokowhitu: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=za8HCwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT7&dq=brendan+hokowhitu+taxonomies+&ots=156btHhRs8&sig=GW6Ei7WU4z5JHpdhr2pMKWAZLh8#v=onepage&q=brendan%20hokowhitu%20taxonomies&f=false Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin: https://read-dukeupress-edu.libproxy1.usc.edu/books/book/2/Beyond-Settler-TimeTemporal-Sovereignty-and Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/socal/detail.action?docID=1426837&pq-origsite=primo Interview with Lee Tamahori: https://www.artforum.com/print/199502/warrior-cast-33251 Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit by Jo-ann Archibald Q'um Q'um Xiiem: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PI_tVlgftg8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=indigenous+storywork&ots=RzxES41SF1&sig=wO2eVfNHlgTZFXkx7nZPTWCB2eg#v=onepage&q=indigenous%20storywork&f=false

What is desire? Who is Jacques Lacan? What are we lacking?? In this new mini-series, Colton invites on different hosts to cover an array of media topics. The catch? They only have 3 min to explain their topic in full. This week's subject is all about lack, desire and where they come from. Tune in to Media Literate's Snack Episodes to learn everything you never knew, you never knew.  

In the Season 2 premier, new permanent hosts Kim and Laura are joined by Colton for a conversation about the potential of monsters as allegory. Using an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a guide, Colton delves into the ways creatures like werewolves and witches have the power to start conversations among viewers. Source: "Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research" by Horace Newcomb and Paul Hirsch, 1983: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208309361170 Media Literate is a collaborative podcast produced by Colton Elzey, Sebastian Wurzrainer, Laura Broman, Kim Henry, and Julia Rose Camus. This episode was edited by Sabrina Sonner. Our theme music is Soft Feeling by Cheel, and our logo was created by Julia.

In the season finale of Media Literate, Andrea is joined by returning guests Sabrina and Julia for a conversation about the often-dismissed media made for girls. They look at how, not simply passive receivers of meaning, girls take agency in how they interpret the content directed towards them. Sources: Shauna Pomerantz : "Between a Rock and a Hard Place:Un/Defining the "Girl""  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/406620/pdf?casa_token=sjWQsHhx06cAAAAA:gUY04-xkDENA7Kl0j4yGjvtDQACzO6xvpu02K0pGDcFgrfJzp9UZc5Hg8Y11xxmR9GAzMkRTEw Stuart Hall: "ENCODING/DECODING" https://spstudentenhancement.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/stuart-hall-1980.pdf  

What exactly is "independent cinema?" How does it manifest differently in Hollywood versus other countries? Ann, Ziwei, and Daniela sit down for a conversation about what should qualify as an independent film across American and Chinese culture, and just how blurred the lines between independent and mainstream cinema have become.

Daniela, Charlotte, and Laura discuss The Sopranos and its unique portrayals of masculinity, food, and mental health, taking a close look at the show’s representations of eating disorders. *CW: discussions of eating disorders and diet culture.

Dan, Ann, and Sabrina delve into the history behind the iconic tabletop RPG, Dungeons & Dragons. Looking at some of the more questionable choices in the game's rules, world-building, and antecedents, they consider what it means to be an ethical player and how ideology surrounds us, even if we don't always know it.

Colton and Sebastian join Julia for a conversation about masculinity in the media. In breaking away from our usual debate format, the 3 discuss portrayals on some of the biggest, and smallest screens, in search of how media can be used to dismantle toxic masculinity.  Some cool links for further inquiry: Gillette "The Best a Man Can Get" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0 Charlie XCX "Boys"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRy1B4t5YA Steve Neale "Masculinity as a Spectacle"  https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/24/6/2/1653405?redirectedFrom=PDF Laura Mulvey "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" https://www.asu.edu/courses/fms504/total-readings/mulvey-visualpleasure.pdf  

In episode 3 of Media Literate Sebastian, Victor, and Laura discuss the value of Numbered Cinema, the framework that ties together the French New Wave, Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok, and Marxist revolutionaries—or does it really? Some cool links for further inquiry: - Toward a Third Cinema: https://www.criticalsecret.net/IMG/pdf/towards_a_third_cinema.pdf - Celebrating Fourth Cinema: https://www.academia.edu/4905111/Printed_in_Illusions_Magazine_NZ_July_2003_CELEBRATING_FOURTH_CINEMA - Our Own Image: https://www-jstor-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/stable/10.5749/j.ctt189ttts - Dan Taipua on Thor: Ragnarok: https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/31-10-2017/thor-and-his-magic-patu-notes-on-a-very-maori-marvel-movie/ - Vika Mana on Thor: Ragnarok: https://medium.com/@endlessyarning/thor-ragnarok-a-very-indigenous-film-a108d90ec766 Also, be sure to check out means.tv, a worker-owned streaming platform that creates anti-capitalist news and entertainment media!

In this second episode of Media Literate, Ann Zhang, Kimberly Henry and Colton Elzey discuss the king of monsters himself: Godzilla. Their question centers around comparing the recent re-boot franchise with the original roots of the giant lizard, and where it all started. Listen now to learn just how much new art and old art can both differ and relate. 

Charlotte, Kim, and Laura discuss the film canon, those movies everyone says you need to see in order to be considered an expert.