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How do you like it so far?

How do you like it so far?

By: Henry Jenkins Colin Maclay
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 Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above. Art Social Sciences
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  • Global Asian Cinema, Asian American Movies, and Film Festivals with Brian Hu

    Global Asian Cinema, Asian American Movies, and Film Festivals with Brian Hu
    Oct 24 2025
    In this episode, Professor Brian Hu from SDSU helps us tackle the world of Asian and Asian American cinema as they travel throughout various locales. Hu’s position as a film scholar and Artistic Director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival leads us through conversations about how people connect with and discover Asian culture. We touch on how regionality and heritage influence people’s interactions with Asian and Asian American media. We also discuss the shifting definitions of Asian American and how that plays out in AAPI/AANHPI film festival creation. Hu guides us through the process of film curation and circulation at AAPI/AANHPI film festivals. In the end, we ask Hu what to look forward to for the upcoming 2025 SDAFF on November 6-15. Our discussion with Hu leaves us wondering what the future holds for Asian and Asian American media as global industries become more invested in Asian works like K-pop, anime, and Labubus. Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Academic Readings:Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and TaiwanIdentities in Motion: Asian American Film and VideoMaking Asian American Film and Video History, Institutions, MovementsDoogie Kameāloha, M.D.: Gen Z to AAPI Direct Marketing and Its Effects on Native Hawaiians (chapter) Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Media Convergence (chapter)Names and Locations:Payal KapadiaAnna May WongNancy KwanLisa LuJames ShigetaPeter X FengJun OkadaJohn WooDante BoscoIngyu OhDaniel Dae KimBruce LeeJackie ChanHayao MiyazakiStudio GhibliSatoshi KonBig Bang (group)Ang LeeSeafood CityFilm Festivals:San Diego Asian Film FestivalLos Angeles Asian Pacific Film FestivalCineconFestival de CannesBusan Film FestivalGolden Horse Film FestivalSan Francisco Silent Film Festival Berlin Film FestivalMovies, Shows, and Media:A Night of Knowing NothingGodzilla Minus OneUlanHard BoiledFlower Drum SongAll We Imagine As LightNe ZhaNe Zha 2The Untamed (TV Series)Pulp Fiction Chan is MissingButterfly (TV Series)The DebutUltraman seriesGundam seriesThe Fabulous Filipino BrothersSuperstore (TV Series)Destroy All MonstersThe MatrixJoy Luck ClubTFCHaikyu!! The Dumpster BattleCrunchyrollCrunchyroll partners with Delta AirlinesJust According to Keikaku memeNaruto (anime, manga)Animal Crossing Crazy Rich AsiansSinnersX-FilesMillenium ActressPerfect BlueTokyo GodfathersDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie - Infinity CastleDemon Slayer Infinity Castle US Box Office KPop Demon HuntersMy Neighbor TotoroThe Boy and the HeronParasiteSquid GamesTikTokCriterion Channel Hong Kong Action ClassicsCriterion Channel Asian American 80’sCriterion Channel Asian American Filmmaking 2000-2009 (user list of films from collection)TerminatorJames BondDrive My Car ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Latina Girlhoods, Baby Boomer Boyhoods, and Children's Media with Diana Leon-Boys

    Latina Girlhoods, Baby Boomer Boyhoods, and Children's Media with Diana Leon-Boys
    Oct 3 2025
    In this episode, we chat with Diana Leon-Boys— Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Communication Arts—about her lifelong work examining the navigation of girlhood through a Latinx lens. Her book Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl extends conversations about minority representation and the complex relationship it has with child development. We host a dialogue between Diana’s research and Henry’s observations about boyhood in his book Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America. We discuss how both scholars pull from their own personal experiences growing up in America and how they interacted with their childhood media. We explore how the proliferation and production of children's and family media shape ideas of adolescence. Diana and Henry relate this back to their roles as parents within an ever-evolving media landscape where funding for educational children’s content is dwindling. They further discuss how representation within media has changed over time and minority groups’ relation to it. This is where Diana brings in her newer projects about depictions of Quinceañeras and Día de los Muertos in TV and films. We are left to ask what the politics of childhood are and what reforms can be done with current children’s media.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Academic TextsDiana Leon-Boys:Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina GirlQuinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular CultureHenry Jenkins:Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar AmericaThe Children’s Culture Reader“Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Permissive Child-Rearing and Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins”“‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’: The Whiteness of Permissive Culture”MIT Salute to Doctor SeussInterview about the bookOthers:Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family LifeKids in the Middle: How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their FamiliesLatina Teenhood: Intersectionalizing subjectivities in the post-network era.Crafting Public Opinion: The Effectiveness of China’s Media Control Policies under Xi JinpingMade to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930 Advice Books:The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child CareDare to Discipline People, Places, Toys, and HolidaysPhilippe ArièsDr. Vikki KatzDía de los MuertosQuinceañerasBenjamin SpockMargaret MeadDr. SeussFred RogersStephanie PérezRaquel Reyes [American Girl Doll]Samantha Parkington [Doll]Julie AndrewsWalt DisneyDisneyland and Disney WorldPaper DollsFDRSigmund Freud Shows, Films, and Other MediaPee-wee’s PlayHouseDennis the Menace [59-63’ show, Comics]Leave It To BeaverThe Cosby ShowOne Piece [Anime, Manga, Live Action]Disney+EncantoCocoSnow White [Animated, Live Action]Little Mermaid [Animated, Live Action]Chinese State Media sounded like Fox MediaRogue OneSesame StreetGordita ChroniclesBaker and the BeautyBlueyDescendants film franchiseOn My BlockWednesdayMary PoppinsSaludos AmigosHarry Potter film seriesDora The Explorer The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.Mad Magazine Classic IllustratedGabby’s DollhouseQuinceañeras episodesSuper Sweet 16Wizards of Waverly PlaceDora the Explorer NewsDefunding of PBS Quinceañeras in ProtestOne Piece Flags in Indonesia ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Neta Kligler-Vilenchik & Ioana Literat - Not Your Parents’ Politics

    Neta Kligler-Vilenchik & Ioana Literat - Not Your Parents’ Politics
    Sep 25 2025
    Neta Kligler-Vilenchik— Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem— and Ioana Literat— Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design at Columbia University— discuss their book, Not Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media. They create a dialogue around the ways young people engage with politics using social media, noting the differences between platforms and regions. Kligler-Vilenchik and Literat tie this into the 2016 and 2024 election cycles, along with international bureaucratic frictions.Both scholars tell us about their growing research on youth cultures’ interactions with politics and how those have shifted over time. They cover how younger people are often involved in politics, whether it be via fandom or other forms of civic imagination. They end by suggesting that these intersections between the younger generations and politics can be optimistically inspiring. Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Academic TextsNot Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media [Oxford, Amazon]By Any Media Necessary The New Youth Activism [NYU Press, Amazon] Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance [TWC]The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [Taylor & Francis Online]Dynamics of scale shift: Contentious places and hybrid activism on social media [Sage Journal]People MentionedJoe RoganKamala HarrisDonald TrumpBarrack ObamaHillary ClintonXi JinpingNancy PelosiAlexandra PelosiDavid HoggLillian (Lilly) Boxman-ShabtaiTaylor SwiftKeren Tenenboim- WeinblattTV, Films, and Other MediaCaptain America [IMDB]Harry Potter [IMDB]Donald Trump Speech LipSync [YouTube link]Extra Fun Tidbits + NewsCivic Paths [Website Link]Scratch Online Coding Community [MIT Site link]Fandom Forward [Link]Little Pinks [Article Link]South Korea President Removed From Power [Article Link]Romanian TikTok Election Scandal [BBC Link]Teen Activism Against School Shooting After Parkland [PBS Link]Slacktivisim [Article Link]Henry Jenkins on Emma Gonzale’s Jacket and youth activism [Brown Journal of Public Affairs] ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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    57 mins
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