The Heist Film "Live Recap Special" - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2012)

A FIRST! Special Topics in Media goes "Live" (sort of), in an effort to activate improvisational audience feedback. Host Garret Castleberry taps into the collective power of the Special Topics in Media Studies class for a post-screening interpretive recap of intellectual themes resonant in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. Students are pressed to speak to several unique categories in an improvisational interpretive event recorded for educational fair use. Does Anderson's film function within the Heist Film genre? Does this adaptation breach the generational divide? Key students share their immediate reactions. 

Host: Garret Castleberry, 

Guests: Mia Haynes, Adia Reid, Peyton Towery, Brady Allen, Christian Soto, Abel Houston, Jasie Eischen, Sapraise Counsellor

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

Recommended readings to pair with Season 5 "The Heist Film":
Jim Leach & Jeannette Slowniowski (editors). The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film. Wayne State University Press, 2017.

Daryl Lee. The Heist Film: Stealing With Style. Wallflower Press, 2014.

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