Film Listology: Season Preview

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.

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