This episode of Rhetoricity comes to you from the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas.

At the convention, I spoke with the University of Southern California's Virginia Kuhn. Dr. Kuhn is an associate professor in the Media Arts + Practice Division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts. In this interview, we discuss three of Dr. Kuhn's recent and ongoing projects: First, the Library Machine, which was until recently known as "LibViz." That project is the third case study in a recent article coauthored by Dr. Kuhn: "Coping with the Big Data Dump: Towards a Framework for Enhanced Information Representation." From there, we turn to the Video Analysis Tableau, an online toolkit that makes a vast archive of digital video accessible and searchable for a wide variety of users and uses. Finally, we discuss Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies, an 2015 Parlor Press anthology that Dr. Kuhn co-edited.

Along the way, we discuss cinematic conventions, gender, Afrofuturism, YouTube, and how rhetoric and rhetoricians figure in to Dr. Kuhn's various projects.

This episode includes a number of clips and samples from other sources:

• "Time Travel" by Jasmine Jordan
• "interactive ui in minority report"
• The Wizard of Oz
• "Not in Kansas Anymore"
• Ghosts of the Abyss
• Inkheart
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Matrix
• "Baby Laughing Hysterically at Ripping Paper (Original)"
• "Charlie bit my finger - again !"
• "David After Dentist"
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• The 85th Academy Awards
• Lincoln
• Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer
• Silver Linings Playbook
• To the People of the United States
• "I'm not a Doctor, but I play one on TV Commercial 1986 with Peter Bergman Vicks Formula 44"
• "Pilot" - House M.D.
• The Last Angel of History trailer
• Sucker Punch trailer
• "A Virtual Friend" by Paris La Nuit
• Various clips from freesound.org