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.”
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.
6 May 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
23 Apr 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
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