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