Global Media Cultures
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Global Media Cultures podcast introduces scholarship about the world to the world. Every episode of the podcast showcases an academic article about media in a global context. The author of the article engages in conversation with the podcast host and discusses the research process, context on the subject matter, and any connections between their research and relevant current events. This public humanities project aims to connect researchers of global media studies, particularly junior scholars, to an audience beyond the academy. It is intended as a teaching resource for those teaching in higher education and as an introduction to these topics for anyone interested in the roles that media play in our understanding of the world.
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Episodes
Indigenous Women's Animation as Multimedia Art
December 03, 2021 18:35 - 50 minutes - 116 MBIn this week's episode, guest Channette Romero discusses her article "Toward an Indigenous Feminine Animation Aesthetic," which analyzes the aesthetics and politics of animation shorts created by Indigenous women situated in North America. Romero argues that these women's innovative animation styles draw attention to the pervasive colonial gaze in mainstream animation and position Indigenous creatives as foremost multimedia artists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Telenovelas and Black Celebrity in Brazil
November 12, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBIn this week's episode, guest Bruno Guaraná discusses his article "Taís Araújo: The Black Helena against Brazil's Whitening Television," which traces key moments in the television career of one of Brazi's most popular television celebrities Taís Araújo, including the several times she has been slated as "the first black protagonist" on different television shows. Guaraná argues that, against Brazilian television's practices of whitening raced subjects and pushing forth a colorblind ideology, ...
Digital Altars and Migrant Death in Mexico
November 05, 2021 19:16 - 47 minutes - 109 MBIn this week's episode, guest Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez discusses her article "Where Blackness Dies: The Aesthetics of a Massacre and the Violence of Remembering," which analyzes the digital altar created to commemorate the lives of 72 Central American migrants massacred in Mexico in 2010. Cervantes-Gómez builds on this analysis to interrogate the sensationalist depictions of migrant death, the affordances and limitations of digital media for attending to the divine, and, ultimately, the politi...
The Politics of Blackness in Britain
October 28, 2021 19:51 - 48 minutes - 110 MBIn this week's episode, guest Mohan Ambikaipaker discusses his article "Music Videos and the 'War on Terror' in Britain: Benjamin Zephaniah's Infrapolitical Blackness in Rong Radio," which analyzes the political project of the music video Rong Radio, created by British artist Benjamin Zephaniah based on his own dub poem. Ambikaipaker argues that Rong Radio illustrates an "infra-political blackness," a form of coalition building that is less tied to specific identity markers and instead builds...
Pirate Film Cultures in Manila
October 22, 2021 20:20 - 45 minutes - 104 MBIn this week's episode, guest Jasmine Nadua Trice discusses her article "Manila's New Cinephilia," which analyzes the informal circulation of DVDs through Manila's street vendors during the early 21st century. Trice demonstrates how these pirate forms of film distribution and consumption are quotidian practices in the Global South and why they represent new form of cinephilia, an appreciation of and deep knowledge of cinema's technological aspects independent of the text itself. Hosted on A...
Documentary Ethics and Trans Activism in the Philippines
October 07, 2021 18:04 - 53 minutes - 122 MBIn this week's episode, guest Curran Nault discusses his article "Documenting the Dead: Call Her Ganda and the Trans Activist Afterlife of Jennifer Laude," which analyzes the production and circulation of the documentary that Nault co-produced about the murder of transpinay Jennifer Laude by a US marine. Informed by his roles as both producer and media scholar, Nault raises critical questions about the aesthetics and ethics of re-presenting trans death and, ultimately, reflects on the possibi...
Brown Girls, White Feminism, and the Necropolitics of War
September 30, 2021 19:13 - 56 minutes - 130 MBn this week's episode, guest Moon Charania discusses her article "Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero," which examines how contemporary films use white women protagonists to justify drone warfare and military intervention in the Middle East. Charania argues that media mobilize the figure of the suffering brown girl to elicit empathy and to assuage Western audiences' guilt about collateral damage in neo-colonial wars. Through what Charania calls "ethical whit...
The End of the American Media Empires
September 21, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MBIn this week's episode, guest Michael Curtin discusses his article "Post Americana: Twenty-First Century Media Globalization" a wide-reaching examination of the political and social forces that shaped the United States' dominance in global media during the 20th century. Curtin argues that, after nearly a century of American hegemony, media industries are today growing more plastic and complicated, scaling their ambitions and operations in an increasingly dynamic environment filled with new te...
Refugee Selfies and the Media of Migration
December 15, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes - 110 MBIn this week's episode, guest Eszter Zimanyi discusses her article "Digital Transience: Emplacement and Authorship in Refugee Selfies" which analyzes "refugee selfies" collected from Instagram's Explore Places map feature as an alternative viewpoint on the so-called 2015 European refugee crisis. Zimanyi argues that that refugee selfies are best conceived as a form of digital transience that provide the refugee with a sense of emplacement in a particular location along with an archive of their...
Liberation and Contagion in the Music of MIA
December 08, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBIn this week's episode, guest Ronak Kapadia discusses his article "Sonic Contagions: Bird Flu, Bandung, and the Queer Cartographies of MIA" which analyzes the work of Sri Lankan diasporic musician, producer, and designer Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam (a.k.a. MIA). MIA's music offers an opening to explore the unlikely intimacies between the diverse histories and political agendas of social movements and radical uprisings across the globe. Kapadia argues that prioritizing the sonic realm in MIA's ...
The Enduring Sentimiento of Chavela Vargas
December 01, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MBIn this week's episode, guest Lorena Alvarado discusses her article "Never Late: Unwelcome Desires and Diasporas in Chavela Vargas’ Last Works" which analyzes how the last two albums of musical performer Chavela Vargas, Cupaima (2006) and ¡Por mi Culpa! (2010), continue making aesthetic choices that de-form the classic repertoire of rancheras and boleros. These musical works represent a "late style" formulated by an older subject that refuses to retire quietly and with docility. Alvarado argu...
Translating Television in Latin America
November 24, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes - 108 MBIn this week's episode, guest Laurena Bernabo discusses her article "Progressive Television, Translation, and Globalization: The Case of Glee in Latin America" which analyzes the behind-the-scenes production process to dub the TV show Glee into Spanish for Latin American audiences. Bernabo demonstrates how managerial choices, talent availability, and narrative particularities shape the creative decisions for a show's dubbing. In the specific case of Glee, these creative decisions significantl...
Anime against Neoliberalism in Chile
November 17, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 90.1 MBIn this week's episode, guest Camilo Diaz Pino discusses his article "Weaponizing collective energy: Dragon Ball Z in the anti-neoliberal Chilean protest movement" which analyzes how the 2011 student-led protests in Chile borrowed icons from the popular anime show to foster a sense of collective struggle. The mobilization of the "genki dama" captured the need for solidarity among various protest groups as they fought the continued privatization of public services in the country. Diaz Pino arg...
The Sounds of Politics in South Asia
November 10, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBIn this week's episode, guests Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan discuss their article "A Sound Bridge: Listening for the Political in a Digital Age" which analyzes how catchy sounds become sonic cues for political participation. In their analysis of the popular refrain “Why This Kolaveri” (“Why This Murderous Rage”), the authors demonstrate how a sound's availability, performativity, and resonance enable it to be picked up by a variety of journalists, politicians, and citizens engaged in ...
Zombies in Cuba
October 27, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBIn this week's episode, guest Bianka Ballina discusses her article "Juan of the Dead: Anxious Consumption and Zombie Cinema in Cuba," which analyzes the complex material and ideological transformations in Cuban film over the past two decades. Ballina argues that Alejandro Brugués's film Juan de los muertos offers an opportunity to explore the circulation of anxieties around global consumption within the island. While the film contributes to the continued reformulation of Cuban and genre cinem...
How to Translate a Genre
October 20, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBIn this week's episode, guest Michelle Cho discusses her article "Genre, Translation, and Transnational Cinema" which analyzes Kim Jee-woon’s Korean western film The Good, the Bad, the Weird as emblematic of both the transnational adaptation of popular genres and the international rise of South Korean cinema in the early 21st century. Cho proposes a theory of genre translation that does not require audiences to know all textual references in a film and that accounts for the embodied pleasures...
Indigenous Cinema in North America
October 13, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBIn this week's episode, guest Karrmen Crey discusses her article "Screen Text and Institutional Context: Indigenous Film Production and Academic Research Institutions" which analyzes post-secondary institutions and the intellectual traditions that shape how Indigenous filmmakers engage the politics and ethics of representation. By comparing two documentaries by Indigenous women, Navajo Talking Picture (Arlene Bowman 1986) and Cry Rock (Banchi Hanuse 2010), Crey argues that we must consider ho...
The Weather after Fukushima
October 06, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MBIn this week's episode, guest Laura Beltz Imaoka discusses her chapter "Rain with a Chance of Radiation: Forecasting Local and Global Risk after Fukushima," which traces the news coverage of the fallout of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Imaoka analyzes how the distinct organizations of the Japanese and U.S. news industries contributed to vastly different public perceptions of local risk and global atmospheric interconnections. She also notes an early moment when, in the absence ...
Digital Cartography and the Promise of Interactivity
September 29, 2020 11:05 - 41 minutes - 95.4 MBIn this week's episode, guest Jason Farman discusses his article "Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography" which analyzes how the political and social implications of cartography take on new significance in the digital age, with the proliferation of interactive maps and geographic information systems (GIS). Farman argues that, by incorporating a social network that engages users as embodied interactors rather than disembodied voyeurs, Google Earth is...
Introducing the Global Media Cultures podcast
September 20, 2020 01:08 - 4 minutes - 11 MBWelcome to the Global Media Cultures podcast! In this brief episode, I explain the origin of the series and what I hope listeners take away from these conversations over the next three months. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.