Click on the titles below to listen to or read interviews about (media and) suicidality. Keep scrolling to read a summary for each piece.
The Broken Brain, forthcoming May 2025
Braaains Podcast, May 20, 2025
Teenage Golden Age, May 7, 2025
Cinemasters, April 28, 2025
Il Secolo XIX, February 26, 2025
Reels of Justice, February 6, 2025
As a Matter of Interact, December 6, 2024
New Books Network, September 29, 2024
Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast, June 24, 2024
Slice of Sci-fi podcast, May 18, 2024
The Death Studies Podcast, May 1, 2024
Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night at the Movies, March 25, 2024
WXVU Morning Roar, November 10, 2023
Cinemasters, April 28, 2025 – interview
Discussing suicide in film with author, Dr. Alessandra Seggi
Ithaca College film student and aficionado Rua Fay runs the Cinemasters blog. She interviews me about one of her favorite movies, Archie’s Final Projects (to which I dedicated a whole chapter in my book), and other less felicitous films in relation to the depiction of suicidality and mental illness.
Il Secolo XIX, February 26, 2025 – newspaper interview
Parlare dei suicidi puo servire. Ma bisogna aprire alla speranza
In conjucntion with the Il Secolo XIX article Incidente mortale a Serra Riccò, nel video dell’auto l’ultima corsa di Pavel, which reported on a car crash and its two victims, one by suicide, journalist Marco Fagandini interviewed me about youth expriences and their relation to suicidality.
Reels of Justice, February 6, 2025- podcast appearance as prosecutor
ROJ-435: “The People vs. Hot Tub Time Machine” with Alessandra Seggi
The folks at The Reels of Justice podcast do know how to have fun: they put movies on trial! Although suicide in film ought not to be discussed in jest (and I did not!), this episode of The Reels of Justice allowed me to highlight some important aspects related to suicide of the featured Hot Tub Time Machine. These are aspects which might rarely get talked about. — Prosecutor: Alessandra Seggi. Defense: Big Ben Haslar. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs, Dylan J. Schlender.
Listen to my appearance on the Reels of Justice podcast here!
As a Matter of Interact, December 6, 2024 – podcast interview
Youth and suicide in American cinema – an interview with Dr. Alessandra Seggi
In this episode of the As a Matter of Interact podcast, sociologist and interviewer Dr. Cohoon and myself talk about the insights that a sociological analysis of film can offer. We also “explore practical implications for audiences and filmmakers regarding pop culture and understanding society.
Listen to my appearance on the As a Matter of Interact podcast here!
New Books Network, September 29, 2024 – podcast interview
Youth and suicide in American cinema
In this episode of the New Books Network podcast, skilled interviewer Ailin Zhou asks pointed questions about both form and contents of my book. Several aspects of the book, which I do not get to talk about as often as I would like, were discussed–for instance, the power of illustrations, gender issues in film, and media literacy.
Listen to my appearance on the New Books Network podcast here!
Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast, June 24, 2024 – podcast interview
Youth, suicide and why connections are not relationships
The June 24 episode of Before You Kill Yourself: A Suicide Prevention Podcast features a conversation between host Leo Flowers and myself about the youth and experience and suicide.
Listen to my appearance on the Before You Kill Yourself podcast here!
Slice of Sci-fi podcast, May 18, 2024 – podcast interview
The significance of suicidality in sci-fi movies
Summer Brooks, the host of Slice of Sci-fi: This Is How We Geek Out Podcast, guides me in discussing the significance of suicide in iconic science fiction movies such as Soylent Green (1973), Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
Listen to my appearance on the Slice of Sci-fi podcast here!
The Death Studies podcast, May 1, 2024 – book promo
The importance of youth and suicide in American cinema
Hosted by Bethan Michael-Fox and Renske Visser, the May 1 episode of The Death Studies Podcast opens with a 3-minute promo of my book–I discuss not only the importance of analyzing youth and suicide in film, but of offering young audiences tools to question the media. This episode then goes on to talk about transnational dying with Yasmin Gunaratnam.
Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night at the Movies, March 25, 2024 – podcast interview
Suicide & Archie’s Final Project
In this episode of Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night at the Movies podcast, I discuss the portrayal of suicide in several youth films across the decades–from It’s a Wonderful Life to Rebel without a Cause; from The Slender Thread to Heathers–along with David Lee Miller, director of Archie’s Final Project.
Listen to my appearance on the Steven Jay Rubin’s Staturday Night at the Movies podcast here!
WXVU Morning Roar, Nov. 10, 2023 – radio interview
Youth, mental health and suicide
In this episode of the Morning Roar, I discuss my book Youth and suicide in American cinema in the context of youth mental health, as well as new project called It’s a Zoo: Society Illustrated.
Listen to my guest appearance at 31′ 50″ of the WXVU Morning Roar show!