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The Film Listology season continues with a welcome break from recent genre form.  Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry revisit Woody Allen's Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay from 1977, Annie Hall. The film captured the hearts of film critics and belongs in the pantheon of great "New York movies". Indeed, much of writer-directer Allen's oeuvre became synonymous with a handful of directors forever linked to New York City and their filmic relationship to this vibrant city of tomorrow. Ironically, some of the offscreen choices made by Allen over time have altered the relationship between his expressed ideas, his films as art, film audiences, and their reception versus rejection of his work. Do external factors impact the film's cultural significance, or can the film's haughty whimsy elude critique? The dialogic duo debates to arrive at a contemporary interpretation of Annie Hall and its film legacy. 

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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This week Special Topics in Media resumes its focus on "Film Listology" with a discussion of director Lewis Milestone's 1930 war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Winning the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, All Quiet might better be understood as an anti-war film for its grueling depictions of the human cost of war. Based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, the source material was revisited as a TV movie in 1979 and again as a critically acclaimed streaming film distributed by Netflix in 2022. Do remakes and reinterpretations help or hinder a film's cultural significance? Hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry place these texts in conversation with one another as a means of discerning the context of the earliest film and its place in the pantheon of World War I literature.

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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The Special Topics in Media Film Listology season reveals a number of contemporary classics just in time for the holiday season. No, these films don't necessarily rock around the Christmas tree. But they do rock, and in some cases, heads will roll.  Hosts Garret  and Scott  announce and respond to the latest output from the McMurry SuperIndex, the #95-91 entrants to the amalgamated film ranking system. This batch once again  provides genre diversification in need of culturally significant rating. What films emerged In the MSI #95-91 poll position? Have a listen and let our hosts know what cultural significance factor you would apply to each of these film features.   
 

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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The Film Listology season of SpecialTopics in Media continues with an abbreviated assessment of the critically adorned foreign langugage film from renown French director Jean Renoir, 1939's The Rules of the Game. Highly valued for its groundbreaking use of deep focus and dolly camera movement, Renoir's coveted love lorn prewar social satire employs artistic expression as a means to encode class criticism. Garret and Scott debate whether the film maintains topical functionality while also asking if the film now feels more like "homework" than required viewing. 

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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As the Film Listology season closes in on #100,  Garret and Scott complete their "transgressive trilogy" of vintage New Hollywood films with Cabaret  from 1972. Directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minelli and Michael York, Cabaret  snuck in a win with the Academy Award for Best Director (among others) in the same year as Francis Ford Coppola's original The Godfather. The film situates its narrative at pre-wartime Germany. A love triangle evolves to capture the attention of a part-time singer-performer (Minelli) at a dingy burlesque nightclub, thrusting these uneasy relationships into chaos just as their world seemingly unravels as fascism comes into prominence in Nazi Germany. Recognizing the film's larger legacy as a Broadway musical of the same name, Garret  wrestles with the cultural significance factor of Fosse's film despite its storied popularity and passionate defenders.

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, & Noel King (Eds.). The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

Geoff King. New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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After a brief pause to commemorate Special Topics 50th episode, Garret and Scott resume their Film Listology countdown with the second in their "transgressive trilogy" of New Hollywood films, Midnight Cowboy (1969). Directed by John Schlesinger and starring John Voight and Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy is the first and only film to receive an initial "X" rating and win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Such a nonconformist combination begs the question, "How does a film like Midnight Cowboy straddle the cultural line  between sacred and profane artistic expression?" The dialogic duo sit assess the cultural significance factor of Schlesinger's film and consider the qualities that situate it of its time while also relevant today. 

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, & Noel King (Eds.). The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

Geoff King. New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Ways to Connect with us online:
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Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/. 

As the Film Listology season of Special Topics continues, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry evaluate their first entry from the twenty-first century, Ridley Scott's sword-and-sandal tentpole epic, Gladiator. Ranking #105 on the McMurry Super Index (MSI), Gladiator signposts Hollywood's affection for nostalgia as a cyclical storytelling engine. The dialogic duo unpack key elements of Scott's peak commercial film, while noting its representation as apologia for the previously unrewarded works of Scott and his leading actor Russell Crowe. Debating how the film may or may not retain initial values assigned at its time of release, Garret assigns a Cultural Significance Factor (CSF) over two decades past IGladiator's Best Picture win. Does Scott's period blockbuster earn high marks for continued excellence, or has this once vaulted treatise on Imperial Twilight signpost artistic decline?

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, & Nancy Kang (Eds.). The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott. New York: Lexington Books, 2013.

Richard A. Schwartz. The Films of Ridley Scott. Goletta, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Vincent LoBrutto. Ridley Scott: A biography. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2019.

Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

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Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/. 

In this episode, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry wrestle with the first in the line of ranked "honorable mentions" in the countdown to #100. Coming in at #106, from famed Hollywood Golden Age director Howard Hawks in 1940, His Girl Friday. The dialogic duo reveal key ways in which this adaptation departs from playwright Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's male ensemble stage play, The Front Page. The hosts weigh popular tropes that influence storytelling today while evaluating the film against the McMurry Super Index (MSI). Finally, Garret assigns a Cultural Significance Factor (CSF) in light of the film's sustainability as a madcap talkie. Does the movie's bravado female protagonist Rosalind Russell elevate Charles Lederer's beefy screenplay, or has this production lost momentum to the sands of time? 

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Ways to Connect with us online:
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Garret's academic website is available at https://garretcastleberry.academia.edu/.  

In this episode, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry continue their theorization of the art of cultural lists and the commercial practice of listing with an abridged explanation of the McMurry Super Index (MSI) formula as a mechanism for cataloging how culture creates value (1:00). Their assessment includes contextualizing domestic declines in film attendance (4:55), before returning to the inaugural film that initially landed at position #100, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (18:49). Directed by James Cameron and released in 1991, T2 broke new ground as a benchmark sequel, surpassing expectations while possibly redirecting the future of film franchising and how Hollywood viewed franchise filmmaking and the summer blockbuster in particular. After a bit of convoluted math (listeners, "just go with it," or better yet, SKIP AHEAD!), the dialogic duo deepen their discussion of T2 and provide a Cultural Significance Factor (CSF) rating to the film's status as the process of this season's Film Listology commences (21:45).
 
...And then things take a turn (1:04:44).

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Janice Hocker Rushing & Thomas S. Frentz. Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

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It's summertime, and with the seasonal changes comes adventurous shifts in programming. This week host Garret Castleberry is rejoined by his partner in filmic crime, Scott McMurry, for a preview of themes to come on Special Topics in Media. The dialogic duo introduce the show's first meta-season, focusing on an examination of "movie listing" as a codexing schema employed by the entertainment industry throughout its modern mass mediated history. Of particular interest, the hosts narrow their preferential focus to film, enlisting the use of advanced data analytics to curate (but also critique) the construct the cultural classicism of American movies in a framework we are titling Film Listology. Their discussion invites yet another origin story in addition to a preview of the methodology developed by McMurry to curate an organically shifting Top 100 cinema codex.  Finally, the duo conclude with the official reveal of film #100.

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season:
Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999.

Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the Movies, 1st Edition. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Ways to Connect with us online:
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In this podcast episode, Dr. Xanne Janssen, Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and the winner of the 2022 Lumivero Early Career Researcher Grant will discuss her initial progress on the mixed methods research study, Building Better Days: Evaluation of Movement Behaviors in young Children from Low-Income. 

The warm weather is long gone, but hosts Eunice and Erika are still nerding out about Border X Brewing and Barrio Logan in San Diego. In this episode, they ask how we put numbers on the success of thriving communities and businesses. For David Favela, the answer lies in the spatial and soulful statistics. To help understand this story, Eunice and Erika reflect on the importance of “mixing up” how we gather, analyze, and talk about data.

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In this podcast episode, we discuss the impact of cultural narratives on mirror syndrome among young women with Pablo Valdivia, Professor of European Culture & Literature at the University of Groningen and Rosmery-Ann Boegeholz, Researcher at the University of Groningen and the National Research School for Literary Studies in the Netherlands.

In this episode, we talked to Moin Syed who is a professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota (U.S.). Our main topics are gender identity and master narratives, gender socialization, academic practices in psychology, and the Open Science framework.

PAST (00:01:56): We learn how Moin turned his personal experience of being treated differently from others and his interest in identity and development into a fascinating research subject. Moin also talks about methodological inconsistencies, issues and challenges of implementing new methods in the established domain of developmental psychology.
PRESENT (00:18:38): Moin presents an outstanding paper from Onnie Rogers (2020), which gives a new perspective about gender socialization of children through the master identity narratives framework. He discusses how people could find intersecting identities and alternative gender narratives both at individual and societal levels.
FUTURE (00:36:29): Moin talks about the future of social sciences and how the Open Science framework can help to change the research conventions in psychology.

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We want to thank Minor Revisions for the music, Lotte Gottschewski-Kooijman for the logo design, Max Kersten for post production, and zeythehuman for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon!   

Full reference of this episode’s articles:
Kathawalla, U.-K., Silverstein, P., & Syed, M. (2021). Easing into open science: A guide for graduate students and their advisors. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18684

McLean, K. C., & Syed, M. (2015). Personal, master, and alternative narratives: An integrative framework for understanding identity development in context. Human Development, 58(6), 318-349. https://doi.org/10.1159/000445817

*Rogers, L. O. (2020). “I’m kind of a feminist”: Using master narratives to analyze gender identity in middle childhood. Child Development, 91(1), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13142

Sterling, T. D. (1959). Publication decisions and their possible effects on inferences drawn from tests of significance–or vice versa. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 54(285), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.2307/2282137

In this podcast episode, the conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Creamer, Professor Emerita within Educational Research at Virginia Tech and Co-Editor in Chief of Methods in Psychology with the Mixed Methods Section focuses on her upcoming book Advancing Grounded Theory with Mixed Methods published by Routledge.