Future Shock Film, Interlude

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In a world where future shock seemed certain to wind down, one professor will rise from the ashes to teach it again. And bring pizza!

In this "Interlude" to the Special Topics in Media season three focus on "Future Shock Film", host Garret Castleberry welcomes Scott McMurry to unveil the films selected for the latest iteration of the Future Shock Science Fiction Film class. 

Not limited to the classroom or enrollment obligations, this season offers all listeners insight into the unfolding theorization of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock concepts as they transfer over to film language, cementing a new linguistics for mass media in the twenty-first century. 

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry

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

Recommended readings to pair with Season 3 "Future Shock Science Fiction Film":
Keith M. Johnston. Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction. Bloomsbury, 2011.

Garret Castleberry. "Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam's "The Zero Theorem"." In Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures. Simon Bacon (Ed.). Lexington Books, 2023.

Michael Harris. In Come With Me If You Want to Live: The Future as Foretold in Classic Sci-Fi Films. Roman & Littlefield, 2024.

Alvin Toffler. Future Shock. Ballantine Books, 2022.

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