Special Topics in Media
Special Topics in Media Studies is a lecture-based podcast that tackles media history one artifact at a time. Each season of the series we will investigate a different mass media theme, medium, or programming genre. While our focus is educational (it is an academic podcast after all), we tailor our conversations toward a broad audience of media enthusiasts.
Podcasting since 2022 • 107 episodes
Special Topics in Media
Latest Episodes
Future Shock Sound Bite: Literature Overview
In this inaugural "Future Shock Sound Bite", host Garret Castleberry briefly overviews key academic scholarship selected to accompany the educational approach to studying future shock science fiction film. Future Shock sound bites will function...
September 12, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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18:27
Future Shock Film: Soylent Green (1973)
In a world where rapid overpopulation leads to accelerated resource scarcity, near-future police detective Thorn (an icy Charlton Heston) investigates a murder that involves an upper-class power player, an escort with limited social mobil...
September 10, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:08:54
Future Shock Film, Prologue
In a world where film podcasts stagnate along the information super highway, two hosts stand between humankind's filmic past and the futurist projections anticipated by the fading star of a dying mass medium. Special Topics in Me...
September 03, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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44:16
2024 Summer Movie Season Super-Pod, Part 2!
Labor Day Weekend marks to social and cultural end point to summertime for many people in the U.S. With this season of change upon us, the voices at Special Topics in Media bid a fond farewell in the most cinematic way we can--talking ...
August 31, 2024
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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49:43
2024 Summer Movie Season Super-Pod, Part 1!
As the Summer Season winds down, and people everywhere return from vacation to head back to work, school, and everywhere in-between, Special Topics winds back this year's clock to revisit the best (and worst?) of the 2024 Summer Mov...
August 27, 2024
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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51:14
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