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Bust out your fancy headphones for this episode, folks. In one our best episodes ever from an AUDIOPHILIC perspective, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick talks with Jacob Smith about his recent experimenta...

https://aca-media.org/news/2024/4/7/ep-73-thinking-with-our-ears-jacob-smith-on-audio-scholarship-april-2024

Recorded live on the scene! (so please forgive any less-than-ideal audio quality) Convening at the 2024 SCMS conference in Boston and gathering “after dark” on the conference eve (i.e. after ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2024/3/15/ep-72-live-in-boston-at-scms-2024

Stephanie Brown chats with Justin Rawlins about his new book on method acting (Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance) and the discourse the method has generat...

https://aca-media.org/news/2024/1/27/episode-71-justin-rawlins-on-method-acting

A conversation between Jonathan Nichols-Pethick and Jordan Sjol about Sjol’s JCMS article, “A Diachronic, Scale-Flexible, Relational, Perspectival Operation: In Defense of (Always-Reforming) ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2024/1/3/episode-70-jordan-sjol-on-medium-specificity

Captain Lee from Below Deck, Jeremy Hartwell from Love is Blind, Andrea Ruehlicke, Blair St. Clair, Bethenny Frankel We continue on with our coverage of media industry labor, as Stephanie Brown...

https://aca-media.org/news/2023/12/4/ep-69-reality-tv-labor-and-unionization-efforts

What is it like when your area of expertise is suddenly in the news? When the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes began, industry scholars Kate Fortmueller and Miranda Banks suddenly found themselves in de...

https://aca-media.org/news/2023/9/22/ep-68-talking-to-the-press-about-the-hollywood-labor-strikes

Return with us to our live taping at the SCMS conference in Denver in April 2023 as we talk with outgoing SCMS president Priscilla Peña Ovalle about the past and future of the SCMS conference. W...

https://aca-media.org/news/2023/8/1/ep-67-reflections-on-the-scms-conference-past-and-future

Image: Denver, Colorado, professional headshot of Finley Freibert, a graphic logo for SCMS 2023, a building in the University of Winnipeg, and a background from the website Unpaywall. We’re g...

https://aca-media.org/news/2023/4/5/ep-66-whats-new-and-whats-not-in-precarious-labor

Our latest episode is a fascinating deep dive into the practice, politics, and promise of improv comedy. Diana De Pasquale leads you on a tour, talking with four different practitioners of improv...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/11/2/ep-65-the-politics-of-improv-comedy

In this episode of Aca-Media, we bring you the editors and several authors of the collection Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation. This fascinating discussion explores the interse...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/8/11/ep-64-an-obsession-with-hummus-food-instagram-august-2022

In this episode we bring you a deep dive into the world of the right-wing comedy complex, from the hyper-visible Joe Rogan to the subterranean shows, circuits, and celebrities you may never have ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/5/25/ep-63-thats-not-funny-the-right-wing-comedy-complex

The ninth episode of “Presenting the Past” features Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour, and Annette Miller, former Vice President of NewsHour Productions. The PBS N...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/5/10/presenting-the-past-episode-9-pbs-newshour-with-judy-woodruff-and-annette-miller

The eighth episode of “Presenting the Past” features John L. Hanson, Jr., producer and host since 1981 of the nationally syndicated radio and podcast interview series In Black America at KUT ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/4/12/presenting-the-past-ep-8-in-black-america-with-john-l-hanson-jr

It’s the film studies textbook you’ve been waiting for: Cinema is a Cat, which teaches film theory, language, and history using examples of cats in movies. Frank Mondelli talks with author Da...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/3/26/ep-62-cinema-is-a-cat-march-2022

In this episode, we conduct an “exit interview” with the outgoing president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Paula Massood, who discusses the downs and ups of her time leading the...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/2/22/episode-61-interview-with-outgoing-scms-president-paula-massood

The seventh episode of “Presenting the Past” features Jean Walkinshaw, an award-winning documentarian and producer in the Pacific Northwest for over 50 years. In 2021, Walkinshaw contributed ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/2/1/presenting-the-past-ep-7-documentary-filmmaking-with-jean-walkinshaw

The sixth episode of “Presenting the Past” features Bill Siemering, a radio innovator and advocate, who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in October 2021. As a founding member of the N...

https://aca-media.org/news/2022/1/11/presenting-the-past-ep-6-national-public-radio-with-bill-siemering

What happens when communication scholars confront professional liars? The answer is weirder than you might think. In this episode, we talk with Drew Zolides, who organized a silent protest of rig...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/12/30/episode-60-lara-logan-spreads-misinformation-december-2021

The fifth episode of “Presenting the Past” explores the history of Spanish language public radio and television programming and its roots in community activism. The discussion features activi...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/10/26/presenting-the-past-episode-5-latino-empowerment

We’re back with a great bleeping episode! First, we interview Dmitri Latsis, head of SCMS’s Scholarly Interest Group Coordinating Committee about the role of SIGs within the Society. Then we ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/9/30/episode-59-a-whole-bunch-of-cranky-academics

The fourth episode of “Presenting the Past” features Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 until 1963. Minow would be...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/9/12/10z7y612axe01buh5w4adci26gw3eg

Since May 2020, Aca-Media has been bringing you a special series, “Talking Television a Time of Crisis,” organized by Hunter Hargraves, Lynne Joyrich, and Brandy Monk-Payton and featuring doz...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/8/16/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-16-finale

In the third episode of "Presenting the Past," Shirley Sneve, Vice President of Broadcasting for Indian Country Today, reflects on her work with Indian Country Today, Vision Maker Media (VMM), an...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/7/11/presenting-the-past-episode-3

Our special series “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis” continues with episode 15: Academics. How have the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice affected academia, and how might...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/7/20/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-ep-15-academics

Our special series "Talking Television in a Time of Crisis" continues with Episode 14: Ethics. What ethical practices should television employ in depicting and framing the pandemic and struggles ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/6/23/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-14-ethics

Aca-Media is back with a fascinating conversation about the great Faye Emerson, actress, talk-show host, proto-feminist, and bon vivant. She was once known as “The First Lady of Television” b...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/6/19/episode-58-faye-wanted-you-to-find-her-june-2021

This is the second episode of our special series, “Presenting the Past,” a collaboration between Aca-Media and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. We talk with broadcast historian Al...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/6/7/presenting-the-past-episode-2-net-and-modern-conservatism

Our special series “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis” continues with episode 13: Publics. What new viewing publics have been created over the past year? How have such TV publics both co...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/5/31/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-13-publics

In the first episode of “Presenting the Past,” a new special series from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and Aca-Media, film scholar Michelle Kelley highlights a collection of 127...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/5/10/new-special-series-presenting-the-past-from-the-american-archive-of-public-broadcasting

Image: Abstract drawing of a man in a protective face mask watching television. On the TV is a crowd at a protest; in the foreground a white woman holds up a “Black Lives Matter” sign. Our ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/4/12/talkin-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-12-aesthetics

Picture of a cat with caption “Je ne suis pas un chat”; image of Gritty; image from The Punisher featuring skull armor; image of an explosion from The Great Train Robbery; stencil graffiti of...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/2/27/episode-57-what-happens-when-people-feel-strongly-about-stuff

How does television seek to manage social and political crises around the world? How does television manage its own internal crises (of representation and of legitimation) in such a precarious cu...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/2/16/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-11-optics

Image: Abstract drawing of a man in a protective face mask watching television. On the TV is a crowd at a protest; in the foreground a white woman holds up a “Black Lives Matter” sign. Epis...

https://aca-media.org/news/2021/1/6/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-10-economics

Image: Abstract drawing of a man in a protective face mask watching television. On the TV is a crowd at a protest; in the foreground a white woman holds up a “Black Lives Matter” sign. Our ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/12/28/talking-television-in-a-time-of-crisis-episode-9-tactics

Images: Cara Dicakson, a close-up of a cell phone from Gossip Girl, Jinsook Kim, a sticky note with Korean writing on it from the Gangnam Station Post-It Note Protest, and Allison Whitney. Aca-...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/12/16/episode-56-fascinating-brain-matter-december-2020

Image: Abstract drawing of a man in a protective face mask watching television. On the TV is a crowd at a protest; in the foreground a white woman holds up a “Black Lives Matter” sign. Our ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/11/24/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-8-politics

Image: Faculty at the University of Illinois picketing with signs reading, for example, “Faculty Voice = Education First!” Credit: Benjamin Stone, https://www.flickr.com/photos/34464825@N00/...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/8/26/episode-55-out-of-the-ashes-and-into-academia

Image: Abstract drawing of a man in a protective face mask watching television; on TV are 2 other people, also in masks, pushing against a transparent film as if trying to burst through the TV sc...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/7/19/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-7-summary

Image: Abstract drawing of a man in a protective face mask watching television; on TV are 2 other people, also in masks, pushing against a transparent film as if trying to burst through the TV sc...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/7/13/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-6-global-geographies

How do we teach TV today? What issues are emerging at this moment in the classroom? How has the social context and the virtualization of everyday life shifted the ways in which we reflect on and ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/6/21/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-5-pedagogy

How are old and new technologies impacting TV production, textuality, and reception? What possibilities are emerging, and what might be closing down? How does this impact media industries and/or ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/6/14/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-4-technology

What are the primary affects around and through TV consumption? How has the pandemic (and the protests following the murder of George Floyd) affected the ways in which we consume and critique tel...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/6/7/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-3-phenomenology

What are the relations between televisual politics and aesthetics, identity and representation, communication and critique? How has the pandemic renewed interest in conversations around TV’s mo...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/6/1/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-2-ideology

In this episode, we discuss television and epistemology in a global pandemic: How do we know TV and how do we know through TV? What are the implications of people tuning in more and more to TV to...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/5/25/talking-television-in-a-pandemic-episode-1-epistemology

The start of something(s) new! Aca-Media continues remote broadcasting and introduces two new series for your listening – and streaming? – pleasure. First is a sneak peek of “Talking Televi...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/3/19/episode-53-just-a-plain-curiosity-5cb9x

Paul Taberham, animation for Ratatouille, Ryn Marchese, some of the interviewees of the Woman series SCMS is cancelled but the content rolls on! This episode of Aca-Media brings you a fascinati...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/3/19/episode-53-just-a-plain-curiosity

In the depths of winter, we take you to warm, sunny Italy! Our intrepid host Chris Becker, apparently unsure how to order “pizza” in Italian, nonetheless bravely heads to Matera in order to t...

https://aca-media.org/news/2020/1/3/episode-52-reality-matters

Image: Margaret Price; cover of Price’s book “Mad at School”; Catherine Grant; screenshot of a video essay from Transition; Ted Danson in The Good Place saying, “Well, I’ve read everyth...

https://aca-media.org/news/2019/10/27/episode-51-a-culture-of-access

Aca-Media is turning 50! For our fiftieth episode, we talk with past SCMS president Pam Wojcik about the past and future of the organization. Then we bring you an interview with Usha Iyer about B...

https://aca-media.org/news/2019/9/6/episode-50-looking-backward-and-looking-forward

Both segments featured in this episode reference “how the sausage gets made,” so prepare to learn a lot. We first hear from Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about how a seminar paper becomes a Journal o...

https://aca-media.org/news/2019/7/15/episode-49-pretty-good-for-the-dog-days-of-summer

Chris and Michael flash back to SCMS Seattle, where a group of scholars sat down to talk about TV’s global future and conferencegoers crossed paths with Emerald City Comic-Con. First up, a roun...

https://aca-media.org/news/2019/5/6/episode-48-double-the-fomo

Chris has relearned how to sleep, and she’s back behind the Aca-Media mic. She and Michael bring you interviews with Alfred Martin and Michael Newman, members of the SCMS Katherine Singer Ková...

https://aca-media.org/news/2019/3/12/episode-47-we-are-a-sleep-deprived-group

Aca-Media is back to ring in 2019! Join our hosts Michael Kackman and guest host Stephanie Brown as they explore what it means to build and nurture communities inside and outside academia. We fir...

https://aca-media.org/news/2019/1/18/episode-46-new-year-new-opportunities

As fall semesters kick off, we’re back with the second part of Producer Stephanie Brown’s two-part series on job searching in this precarious academic job market! Stephanie takes us back into...

https://aca-media.org/news/2018/9/14/episode-45-be-good-to-each-other

Share this one with everyone you know who is on the academic job market!  We present the first of a two-part series on job searches, with advice and empathy from those who are currently contendi...

https://aca-media.org/news/2018/7/26/episode-44-can-a-game-make-you-cry

Aca-Media presents a Very Special Episode, albeit one without an easy, “feel-good” ending. The topic is precarity in academia. We bring you three segments: a roundtable (with Jamie Rogers, Je...

https://aca-media.org/news/2018/6/15/episode-43-very-special-episode

As spring zooms along as a semester and lags behind as a season, we bring you a new episode of Aca-Media with two segments that speak to our current times. First, we present different reflections...

https://aca-media.org/news/2018/4/20/episode-42-were-all-in-this-together

There's a new editor at Cinema Journ-- um, we mean, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Chris talks with Caetlin Benson-Allott about her plans for the next five years and what SCMS members c...

https://aca-media.org/news/2018/2/4/episode-41-held-together-by-an-ampersand

In our final episode of 2017, we feature an interview with outgoing Cinema Journal editor Will Brooker addressing the past and future of the Society for Cinema Studies’ journal. In addition, we...

https://aca-media.org/news/2017/12/21/episode-40-explode-out-of-the-chimney-onto-the-public-sphere

In this episode of Aca-Media, we feature Amanda Lotz discussing her recent work on internet-distributed television and her Media Business Matters podcast. In addition, Brandon Arroyo presents exc...

https://aca-media.org/news/2017/11/17/episode-39-theres-more-to-newark-than-whole-foods

To help you with your SCMS proposal this month, we reprise an interview with Angelo Restivo on SCMS’s paper-selection process.  Then we bring you a FieldNotes interview with groundbreaking tel...

https://aca-media.org/news/2017/8/4/episode-38-this-really-is-summer

We’re back from the spring semester and talking about graduation and protest, balancing SCMS leadership and research, and a digital research project in transnational streaming radio for your su...

https://aca-media.org/news/2017/6/2/episode-37-a-much-more-open-listening-practice

In this episode, we talk to media studies researchers and teachers involved in protest, organizing, and public scholarship initiatives following the presidential election of 2016. Speaking with C...

https://aca-media.org/news/2017/3/9/episode-36-i-dont-think-i-have-the-option-to-remain-silent

Recorded just before the inauguration, this episode takes two oblique angles on politics.  First, Stephanie Brown discusses helping students’ find their voice through a podcast assignment for ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2017/1/28/episode-35-radio-free-south-bend

In our last episode of 2016, we present Susan Ohmer discussing the experience of teaching a course on US presidential elections. We also present SCMS Conference Manager Leslie LeMond on the work ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/12/19/episode-34-redoubled-my-devotion-to-teaching

Recorded after Game 1 of the World Series and before the conclusion of the US presidential election, here we feature interviews with Kirk Combe and Sangeet Kumar on political satire media in an i...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/11/16/episode-33-partake-in-the-factional-wrangle

Kicking of the fall semester, we present the first in a three part series with media scholars in conversations addressing the current election season—beginning with Chuck Tryon, author of the n...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/9/14/episode-32-following-my-fascinations

We’re back with an extended summer episode courtesy of the SCMS Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG). Produced by Tim Anderson, the episode features excellent segments with Jeremy Morri...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/7/27/episode-31-shape-the-sonic-space

Just wrapping up the spring semester, this new episode features a report from the Academy Film Archives featuring interviews with the archive’s director Michael Pogorzelski, preservation office...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/5/19/episode-30-something-you-do-not-something-you-study

A special Aca-Media short report! The non-academic talk of #SCMS16 has been the furry convention at the hotel next door, so Chris went along with a handful of fan studies scholars to check it out...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/4/3/scms-and-furries-in-a-blender

Our pre-SCMS Atlanta episode includes a detailed report from the Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, featuring interviews with Josh Shepperd, Sonja Williams, Gerald Seligman, and Wendy Shay...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/3/25/episode-29-creating-a-space

Following last episode’s segment on graduate student-run journals, we present a segment on the undergraduate journal Film Matters, featuring co-editor-in-chief Tim Palmer of University of North...

https://aca-media.org/news/2016/2/4/episode-28-everything-you-thought-you-knew-is-going-to-dissolve-but-

Our Cinema Journal Presents segment features Jun Okada, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at SUNY Geneseo discussing her new book Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Ins...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/12/18/episode-27-a-much-broader-context-of-the-medium-out-there

Drama! Tension! Melodrama! Horror!  This episode will put you through the emotional wringer, it will give you the feels, it will help you understand both cannibals and Cubs fans.  No preview ca...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/11/5/episode-26-a-chill-in-the-air

Fall is here and the semester has begun. Michael and Chris share some teaching tips, and we'd like to hear your teaching tips too: email us at info@aca-media.org. Our Cinema Journal Presents seg...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/9/13/episode-25-how-improvisational-it-all-is

It's an exciting, exciting episode of Aca-Media to help you while away the dog days of summer. First up: Kristen Warner talks about "colorblind casting" and waxes eloquent about her love for Magi...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/8/5/episode-24-maybe-someones-head-turned

Michael and Chris are back from Dublin, and we have lots of great content for your summer listening pleasure.  First, Bill interviews Jill Simpson, Executive Director of the Society for Cinema a...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/7/4/episode-23-what-academics-think-is-fun

It's been a while, but we're back with some good stuff!  First, Austin Fisher discusses his video essay from Transition, responding to Michelle Cho’s CJ article on spaghetti westerns. Then we ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/5/30/episode-22-to-get-to-the-heart-of-it

This episode features lots of great content to get you through your flight to Montreal. First we talk with Jon Lewis about his classic Cinema Journal article from 2000 about “How the Blacklist ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/3/14/episode-21-its-not-about-the-money

Don't fear the numbers! In a fascinating (and funny) interview, we talk to Jeremy Butler about how he uses quantitative analysis and digital tools to better understand film and television style. ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2015/1/23/episode-20-three-times-as-many-laughs

This month we bring you the great film scholar Thomas Elsaesser as part of our collaboration with the new Fieldnotes  project. Fieldnotes is conducting oral histories with notable media sch...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/12/14/episode-19-i-love-to-hear-those-stories

It's a spooky, mystery-filled Halloween for the Aca-Media team.  Chris has just moved into a new house, only to discover that it might be haunted.  While she and Michael investigate (luckily ou...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/10/30/episode-18-youre-gonna-scare-him-again

Now that you've distributed those syllabi, but before the first papers come in, reward yourself with a new episode of Aca-Media!  Our "Cinema Journal Presents" segment this month features Cour...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/9/11/episode-17-a-confidence-in-our-form

This month's episode features Jennifer Petersen on the famous 1915 Mutual v. Ohio case: the Supreme Court's ruling in that case that films are not speech seems obviously wrong today, but Jen help...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/7/30/episode-16-almost-an-international-incident

The "academic summer" has begun, which means we're … working as hard as ever! This month, Luke Stadel joins us for our "Cinema Journal Presents" segment on the intersections of cable televisio...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/6/5/episode-15-how-youre-supposed-to-act-on-tv

After a month's hiatus (lots of conference-going around here), Aca-Media is back! This month features Julie Wilson discussing her recent Cinema Journal article about celebrity activism. Then we b...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/5/8/episode-14-dirty-movies

This episode brings you our 2014 SCMS Conference preview. Bill interviews programming chair Angelo Restivo about how papers and panels are selected for the conference, then scheduler Bruce Bra...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/3/9/episode-13-a-bumbershoot-is-a-brolly

Our SCMS preview episode will be out in a couple of days, but in the meantime we wanted to alert you to a couple of good tie-ins at SCMS with previous Aca-Media content: TEACHING RACE & ME...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/3/2/aca-media-tie-ins-at-scms

Michael and Chris are freezing, yet they pull themselves together to provide another great episode. In the "Cinema Journal Presents" segment, Michael Slowik discusses music in early Hollywood sou...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/2/6/episode-12-things-that-are-now-natural-to-us

This month we bring you a very cool interview with Michael W. Harris about music in Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel, which gets into all kinds of themes: postwar censorship, the meanings of Jazz...

https://aca-media.org/news/2014/1/11/episode-11-a-tricky-set-of-layers

After a long absence spent recovering from Episode 9, in which MOOC spores wiped the brains of film and media scholars everywhere, we're back up and running. This month we feature an interview wi...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/12/3/episode-10-we-might-have-to-be-more-vulgar

In Episode 9 we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast by talking with Neil Verma about the program, its use of radio aesthetics, the panic that ensued, and th...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/10/9/episode-9-im-sure-its-nothing

In this episode, Christine and Michael finally meet face-to-face, and the banter is electric! Coming to you from the luxuriously appointed Aca-Media Command Centre in South Bend, Indiana, we inve...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/8/31/episode-8-like-falling-off-a-horse

This is a great one, folks!  We discuss the question of "industrial authorship" with Josh Heuman, who wrote a recent article in Cinema Journal on the topic. Then we bring you a roundtable disc...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/8/5/episode-7-my-gut-goes-the-way-your-gut-goes

This episode features an interview with Paula Amad about her Cinema Journal article "Visual Riposte: Reconsidering the Return of the Gaze as Postcolonial Theory’s Gift to Film Studies." We also...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/7/3/episode-6-its-kind-of-like-a-scavenger-hunt

This month, we introduce a new segment, "Cinema Journal Classics," in which we look back at an especially important or influential article (or just one of our favorites) from the CJ archives. ...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/5/30/episode-5-surprise-can-mean-all-kinds-of-things

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 r...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/5/6/episode-4-please-mister-wed-like-to-put-on-a-show

An academic perspective on media

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/3/31/episode-3-longer-than-some-marriages

In this episode of Aca-Media, we premiere a new feature: one-minute media reviews called "Aca-Media Bites." If you would like to contribute one, email us for more information.  Also on th...

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/2/27/aca-media-ep-2-more-dash-than-hyphen

Interview with Cinema Journal editor Will Brooker, report on the 2012 Flow Conference, and a tribute to Alexander Doty

https://aca-media.org/news/2013/1/24/aca-media-ep-1-ceci-nest-pas-un-podcast