What can we learn about contemporary culture from watching dayglo-clad teenagers dancing geekily in front of their computers in such disparate sites as Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Mexico City?
Podcast: Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
Many people talk about “cinematic” games, but what does this really mean? Richard Rouse tells us.
Podcast: John Picker, “Transatlantic Acousmatics”
Tracing a transatlantic route from fiction to radio and sound film back to fiction, this approach offers a new way to characterize a crucial period of change from the late Victorian to the modern world.
Podcast: Elisa Kreisinger, “Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture”
Remixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws that threaten to obstruct the public discursive space for critiquing popular culture.
Video and podcast: “Race, Politics, and American Media”
Following Obama’s election, are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier?
Podcast: Hanna Rose Shell, “How Not to Be Seen”
A talk about camouflage framed by the question of “how not to be seen”–in film, on film, as film.
Podcast: Ethan Gilsdorf, “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks”
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds–from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar.
