New Books in Popular Culture

Marshall Poe

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Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Jun 19 • 33m

Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)

Jun 17 • 53m

Owen Flanagan, "What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Jun 11 • 42m

Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)

Jun 2 • 1h 6m

Joshua K. Wright, "The NBA's Global Empire: How the League Became an International Powerhouse" (McFarland, 2025)

Jun 1 • 1h 12m

Ashlee Piper, "No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity" (Celadon Books, 2025)

Jun 1 • 42m

Dave Cook, "Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-'Em-Ups" (Bitmap Books, 2022)

May 31 • 19m

Laura Lee Flanagan, "Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!" (Process Media, 2025)

May 30 • 40m

Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

May 30 • 43m

Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio

May 29 • 56m

Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)

May 23 • 41m

Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 22 • 51m

Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

May 22 • 1h 15m

Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)

May 17 • 55m

Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 16 • 1h 20m

Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)

May 15 • 54m

Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

May 14 • 1h 9m

Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 13 • 51m

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline

May 12 • 1h 10m

Brian M. Ingrassia, "Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America" (

May 11 • 39m

Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)

May 10 • 33m

Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)

May 9 • 1h 9m

Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

May 6 • 39m

Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison, "Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

May 4 • 41m

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information

May 3 • 55m

Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)

May 2 • 1h 4m

Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)

Apr 30 • 44m

Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix

Apr 29 • 55m

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political

Apr 28 • 51m

Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)

Apr 27 • 1h 12m

Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)

Apr 26 • 36m

Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)

Apr 25 • 50m

James Cartlidge, "The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon" (CRC Press, 2025)

Apr 24 • 28m

Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Apr 23 • 46m

Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)

Apr 22 • 48m

Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)

Apr 21 • 1h 8m

Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)

Apr 20 • 59m

Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Apr 19 • 1h 9m

Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)

Apr 16 • 1h 19m

Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)

Apr 15 • 46m

Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)

Apr 13 • 58m

Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)

Apr 11 • 41m

Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Apr 8 • 1h 1m

Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Apr 4 • 48m

Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Apr 2 • 49m

Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

Apr 1 • 51m

Making Radio History

Mar 31 • 1h 7m

D. D. Miller, "Eight-wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd's Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016)

Mar 30 • 1h 4m

Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)

Mar 29 • 40m

Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 25 • 1h 4m

Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Mar 24 • 37m

Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Mar 18 • 32m

Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 17 • 1h 9m

Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)

Mar 15 • 43m

Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

Mar 14 • 1h 8m

Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 11 • 37m

Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)

Mar 8 • 51m

Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Mar 7 • 26m

Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

Mar 7 • 52m

Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)

Mar 6 • 57m

Blair Farrell, "The Avengers in Video Games" (McFarland, 2021)

Mar 5 • 40m

Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)

Mar 5 • 1h 11m

Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)

Mar 4 • 20m

Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

Mar 3 • 36m

Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Mar 3 • 33m

Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Mar 2 • 59m

Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

Feb 26 • 58m

William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)

Feb 25 • 46m

In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion

Feb 22 • 1h 16m

Shelly Jones and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, "Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic, The Gathering and Its Influence" (McFarland, 2023)

Feb 20 • 29m

Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 15 • 41m

Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Feb 12 • 40m

Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)

Feb 11 • 57m

Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 11 • 44m

Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 9 • 50m

Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 9 • 49m

Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)

Feb 8 • 1h 52m

Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)

Feb 8 • 56m

Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)

Feb 8 • 1h 7m

Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Feb 5 • 59m

Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)

Feb 3 • 55m

Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)

Feb 3 • 1h 19m

A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy

Jan 28 • 1h 24m

Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jan 20 • 1h 13m

Marco Arnaudo, "The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century" (McFarland, 2023)

Jan 19 • 27m

Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)

Jan 17 • 1h 0m

Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Jan 16 • 53m

Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

Jan 15 • 51m

Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)

Jan 14 • 36m

Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

Jan 13 • 1h 6m

Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)

Jan 9 • 47m

Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)

Jan 5 • 39m

Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)

Jan 4 • 45m

James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Dec 28, 2024 • 56m

Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)

Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 33m

Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)

Dec 25, 2024 • 40m

Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 9m

Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 44m

Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 50m

Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)

Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 11m

Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)

Dec 22, 2024 • 52m

Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)

Dec 21, 2024 • 40m

Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)

Dec 15, 2024 • 38m

Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 35m

A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)

Dec 14, 2024 • 46m

Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)

Dec 13, 2024 • 48m

Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Dec 11, 2024 • 1h 2m

Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dec 8, 2024 • 54m

Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Dec 5, 2024 • 49m

Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)

Dec 4, 2024 • 35m

Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Nov 30, 2024 • 56m

Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 12m

Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)

Nov 27, 2024 • 33m

Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)

Nov 25, 2024 • 56m

David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 5m

Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)

Nov 23, 2024 • 53m

Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Nov 22, 2024 • 25m

Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)

Nov 21, 2024 • 46m

Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 47m

Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)

Nov 20, 2024 • 51m

Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 7m

Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture

Nov 18, 2024 • 1h 59m

Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)

Nov 18, 2024 • 54m

Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)

Nov 17, 2024 • 37m

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 1h 8m

Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 14, 2024 • 1h 5m

David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Nov 13, 2024 • 53m

Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 12, 2024 • 58m

Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)

Nov 12, 2024 • 1h 23m

Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)

Nov 10, 2024 • 29m

Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)

Nov 9, 2024 • 35m

Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)

Nov 7, 2024 • 35m

David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)

Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 9m

Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)

Nov 2, 2024 • 32m

Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)

Nov 1, 2024 • 59m

Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)

Nov 1, 2024 • 55m

Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)

Nov 1, 2024 • 37m

Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)

Oct 27, 2024 • 1h 21m

Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Oct 26, 2024 • 1h 4m

Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)

Oct 26, 2024 • 28m

Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75

Oct 23, 2024 • 29m

Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75

Oct 23, 2024 • 29m

Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 10m

Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 8m

Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)

Oct 18, 2024 • 1h 1m

Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)

Oct 18, 2024 • 47m

Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)

Oct 17, 2024 • 29m

Maurice Suckling, "Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games" (Routledge, 2024)

Oct 12, 2024 • 35m

Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Oct 11, 2024 • 1h 9m

Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 5m

Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)

Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 0m

Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)

Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 6m

Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 15m

Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)

Oct 3, 2024 • 1h 8m

Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 9m

Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Sep 28, 2024 • 45m

Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)

Sep 26, 2024 • 17m

Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)

Sep 24, 2024 • 39m

David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Sep 20, 2024 • 59m

Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 2m

Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)

Sep 18, 2024 • 32m

Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 6m

Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)

Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)

Sep 13, 2024 • 56m

The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift

Sep 12, 2024 • 24m

Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Sep 10, 2024 • 1h 4m

Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 2m

Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 2m

Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Sep 6, 2024 • 54m

Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 24m

John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sep 2, 2024 • 46m

Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aug 31, 2024 • 36m

Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)

Aug 31, 2024 • 48m

Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Aug 28, 2024 • 57m

Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)

Aug 26, 2024 • 55m

Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?

Aug 19, 2024 • 57m

Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)

Aug 18, 2024 • 58m

Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)

Aug 14, 2024 • 59m

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Aug 13, 2024 • 55m

Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 8m

Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)

Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 3m

Franz Nicolay, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Aug 6, 2024 • 41m

Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)

Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 17m

Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 10m

Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 50m

Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 7m

Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 12m

Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 52m

Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jul 27, 2024 • 40m

Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)

Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 16m

Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jul 26, 2024 • 58m

40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 15m

Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 0m

Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)

Jul 19, 2024 • 25m

Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)

Jul 16, 2024 • 57m

Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)

Jul 15, 2024 • 57m

Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

Jul 14, 2024 • 57m

Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

Jul 13, 2024 • 47m

Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, "Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism" (Lexington, 2023)

Jul 12, 2024 • 53m

Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)

Jul 12, 2024 • 49m

Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)

Jul 12, 2024 • 57m

Andrew S. Jacobs, "Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 6m

Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Jul 7, 2024 • 57m

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 22m

Kathryn Hughes, "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 59m

Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)

Jul 3, 2024 • 45m

On Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo Jefferson

Jun 29, 2024 • 48m

Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)

Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 4m

Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 3m

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)

Jun 25, 2024 • 45m

Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)

Jun 24, 2024 • 51m

Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)

Jun 23, 2024 • 1h 30m

Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Jun 23, 2024 • 54m

Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 21, 2024 • 48m

Anahit Behrooz, "BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship" (404 Ink, 2023)

Jun 20, 2024 • 46m

Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)

Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 4m

On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”

Jun 14, 2024 • 59m

Amy E. Wright, "Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, from Nationhood to Now" (Vanderbilt UP, 2023)

Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 17m

Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)

Jun 11, 2024 • 59m

Screwed and Chopped

Jun 10, 2024 • 35m

Corey J. Miles, "Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South" (U Mississippi Press, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 48m

Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Jun 4, 2024 • 51m

Eleanor Medhurst, "Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion" (Hurst, 2024)

Jun 3, 2024 • 44m

Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 7m

Daniel Rachel, "Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Akashic Books, 2024)

Jun 1, 2024 • 54m

Ryan White, "Springsteen: Album by Album" (Palazzo Editions, 2024)

May 31, 2024 • 58m

Bodie A. Ashton, "The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

May 28, 2024 • 59m

Ears Racing

May 27, 2024 • 58m

Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

May 23, 2024 • 43m

Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024)

May 22, 2024 • 1h 0m

James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024)

May 19, 2024 • 42m

En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)

May 17, 2024 • 38m

Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

May 14, 2024 • 49m

Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)

May 11, 2024 • 56m

Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

May 10, 2024 • 41m

Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)

May 10, 2024 • 56m

Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)

May 8, 2024 • 1h 13m

Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024)

May 8, 2024 • 29m

Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024)

May 4, 2024 • 25m

Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)

May 4, 2024 • 53m

Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

May 3, 2024 • 53m

Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)

May 3, 2024 • 1h 9m

Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

May 1, 2024 • 1h 4m

Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021)

Apr 28, 2024 • 52m

Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Apr 26, 2024 • 50m

Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)

Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 6m

Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)

Apr 23, 2024 • 48m

Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Apr 23, 2024 • 50m

Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Apr 19, 2024 • 1h 1m

Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

Apr 17, 2024 • 35m

Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 0m

Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

Apr 11, 2024 • 39m

Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Apr 9, 2024 • 49m

Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 0m

Adele Oliver, "Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill" (404 Ink, 2023)

Apr 7, 2024 • 48m

Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Apr 6, 2024 • 38m

Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)

Apr 6, 2024 • 1h 6m

Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Apr 6, 2024 • 48m

Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)

Apr 5, 2024 • 58m

Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)

Apr 3, 2024 • 55m

Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television

Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 21m

Ben Highmore, "Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 7m

Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 26, 2024 • 36m

Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Mar 21, 2024 • 1h 1m

Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)

Mar 21, 2024 • 48m

John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024)

Mar 16, 2024 • 52m

Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)

Mar 15, 2024 • 22m

Micajah Henley, "The Clash's Sandinista!" (Bloombury, 2024)

Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 4m

Piotr Florczyk, "Swimming Pool" (Bloombury, 2024)

Mar 12, 2024 • 36m

Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 41m

David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 11, 2024 • 58m

Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text

Mar 11, 2024 • 1h 4m

Samantha Majic, "Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics" (U California Press, 2023)

Mar 10, 2024 • 54m

Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy

Mar 8, 2024 • 47m

Amy Coddington, "How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race" (U California Press, 2023)

Mar 6, 2024 • 51m

Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Mar 3, 2024 • 56m

Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Mar 3, 2024 • 49m

Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)

Mar 2, 2024 • 1h 31m

Tyler C. Gore, "My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2022)

Feb 28, 2024 • 53m

Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)

Feb 27, 2024 • 49m

Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 1m

Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)

Feb 20, 2024 • 54m

John Howland, "Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music" (U California Press, 2021)

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 35m

Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)

Feb 14, 2024 • 57m

Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)

Feb 10, 2024 • 34m

Richard T. Rodríguez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022)

Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 7m

Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Feb 6, 2024 • 1h 34m

Brydie Kosmina, "Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Feb 6, 2024 • 54m

Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)

Feb 6, 2024 • 57m

Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 11m

Dustin Kiskaddon, "Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Feb 4, 2024 • 53m

Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)

Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 5m

William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)

Feb 3, 2024 • 48m

Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Jan 30, 2024 • 1h 6m

Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Jan 29, 2024 • 52m

Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)

Jan 28, 2024 • 50m

Judith Fathallah, "Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer" (Mediastudies Press, 2023)

Jan 27, 2024 • 56m

Kate Annett-Hitchcock, "The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)

Jan 26, 2024 • 57m

Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

Jan 22, 2024 • 52m

Aaron Carnes, "In Defense of Ska: The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition" (Clash Books, 2023)

Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 9m

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jan 20, 2024 • 48m

Thomas Baudinette, "Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jan 16, 2024 • 46m

David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 34m

Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)

Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 20m

Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 59m

Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 55m

Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 7m

Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jan 9, 2024 • 41m

Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 5m

Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

Jan 4, 2024 • 46m

W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 58m

Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)

Jan 1, 2024 • 54m

Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)

Dec 28, 2023 • 59m

Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Dec 28, 2023 • 50m

Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)

Dec 28, 2023 • 30m

Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)

Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 2m

Nate Patrin, "The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Dec 23, 2023 • 52m

Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Dec 21, 2023 • 58m

Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)

Dec 21, 2023 • 35m

David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)

Dec 20, 2023 • 51m

Emma Reay, "The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Dec 20, 2023 • 29m

Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)

Dec 20, 2023 • 39m

Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)

Dec 19, 2023 • 40m

Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 20m

Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 2m

Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)

Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 12m

Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 32m

Lynn Z. Bloom, "Recipe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Dec 13, 2023 • 36m

Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)

Dec 12, 2023 • 53m

Jesse Dart, "Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Dec 11, 2023 • 53m

Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 10, 2023 • 50m

Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)

Dec 9, 2023 • 50m

Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)

Dec 8, 2023 • 42m

Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, "An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

Dec 8, 2023 • 49m

Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Dec 7, 2023 • 25m

Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 6, 2023 • 35m

Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

Dec 6, 2023 • 48m

Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Dec 5, 2023 • 42m

H. E. Sawyer, "I Am the Dark Tourist: Messenger of Remembrance" (Headpress, 2023)

Dec 3, 2023 • 54m

Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 7m

Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Nov 28, 2023 • 42m

Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 27, 2023 • 43m

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Nov 23, 2023 • 38m

Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)

Nov 20, 2023 • 54m

Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

Nov 18, 2023 • 43m

Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)

Nov 17, 2023 • 58m

'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 22m

Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 1h 21m

Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)

Nov 9, 2023 • 37m

A Deep Dive into Olivia Rodrigo's "Guts"

Nov 9, 2023 • 1h 4m

Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)

Nov 9, 2023 • 41m

Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)

Nov 9, 2023 • 51m

What Reality TV Says About Us

Nov 8, 2023 • 44m

Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)

Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 5m

This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond

Nov 7, 2023 • 1h 17m

Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 7, 2023 • 42m

Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)

Nov 6, 2023 • 1h 2m

Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)

Nov 6, 2023 • 1h 2m

Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Nov 5, 2023 • 1h 10m

Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Nov 4, 2023 • 58m

"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)

Nov 2, 2023 • 52m

Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 40m

Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 55m

Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 • 1h 15m

Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

Oct 29, 2023 • 53m

Jason Lamb, "NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion, an Oral History" (PM Press, 2024)

Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 1m

Stephen B. Armstrong, "I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School" (Backbeat Books, 2023)

Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 11m

Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)

Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 1m

Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)

Oct 24, 2023 • 46m

Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 55m

Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 0m

Sébastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Oct 19, 2023 • 49m

Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

Oct 13, 2023 • 48m

Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 12m

Kate Polak, "Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2017)

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 5m

Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)

Oct 10, 2023 • 59m

Johannes C. P. Schmid, "Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Oct 9, 2023 • 46m

Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)

Oct 8, 2023 • 56m

Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 4m

Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Oct 7, 2023 • 52m

Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)

Oct 5, 2023 • 50m

Sheldon Birnie, "Missing Like Teeth: An Oral History of Winnipeg Underground Rock, 1900-2001" (‎Eternal Cavalier Press, 2015)

Oct 4, 2023 • 59m

Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 59m

Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Oct 2, 2023 • 47m

Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)

Sep 30, 2023 • 47m

Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 4m

Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)

Sep 23, 2023 • 48m

Malgorzata Fidelis, "Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Sep 22, 2023 • 1h 40m

Weirding Out with Kate Marshall

Sep 21, 2023 • 24m

Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History" (Artemesia Publishing, 2023)

Sep 18, 2023 • 54m

Karen Eva Carr, "Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Sep 17, 2023 • 1h 6m

Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)

Sep 15, 2023 • 48m

Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)

Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 17m

A Better Way to Buy Books

Sep 12, 2023 • 34m

Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)

Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 11m

Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)

Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 10m

Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Sep 10, 2023 • 54m

Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

Sep 10, 2023 • 1h 11m

Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 7m

Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Sep 5, 2023 • 1h 0m

Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

Sep 2, 2023 • 55m

John Brackett, "Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness" (Duke UP, 2023)

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 6m

Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)

Aug 28, 2023 • 38m

Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 50m

Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

Aug 25, 2023 • 57m

Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (Hülsbusch, 2023)

Aug 23, 2023 • 30m

PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event

Aug 23, 2023 • 1h 2m

Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)

Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 2m

Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)

Aug 18, 2023 • 1h 4m

Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)

Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 26m

Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Aug 16, 2023 • 41m

Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform

Aug 15, 2023 • 20m

David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 12m

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga

Aug 14, 2023 • 18m

Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)

Aug 13, 2023 • 53m

William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)

Aug 9, 2023 • 51m

Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Aug 9, 2023 • 44m

Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Aug 8, 2023 • 54m

Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 52m

Andy Cowan, "B-Side: Pop History Via Its Greatest B-Sides, 1917-2017" (Headpress, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 49m

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

Aug 3, 2023 • 15m

The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht

Aug 1, 2023 • 49m

Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Jul 31, 2023 • 43m

Tara Isabella Burton, "Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

Jul 27, 2023 • 33m

Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

Jul 26, 2023 • 55m

Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m

Rich Deakin, "Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead" (Headpress, 2021)

Jul 23, 2023 • 45m

Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)

Jul 19, 2023 • 40m

Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)

Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 0m

Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)

Jul 18, 2023 • 53m

Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Jul 17, 2023 • 47m

Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Jul 16, 2023 • 1h 20m

Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)

Jul 16, 2023 • 43m

Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 15, 2023 • 58m

Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jul 11, 2023 • 1h 5m

Stephen Davies, "Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Jul 10, 2023 • 31m

Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jul 8, 2023 • 46m

Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)

Jul 4, 2023 • 48m

Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)

Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 0m

Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)

Jul 4, 2023 • 33m

Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)

Jul 2, 2023 • 1h 20m

Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)

Jun 30, 2023 • 40m

Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma

Jun 24, 2023 • 35m

Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 35m

Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 53m

The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures

Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 7m

Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 17, 2023 • 36m

Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)

Jun 12, 2023 • 34m

Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)

Jun 11, 2023 • 54m

Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Jun 11, 2023 • 58m

Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Jun 10, 2023 • 37m

Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)

Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 3m

Michael T. Friedman, "Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 14m

Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

Jun 6, 2023 • 35m

Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

May 28, 2023 • 56m

Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)

May 25, 2023 • 57m

Landon Jones, "Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers" (Beacon, 2023)

May 19, 2023 • 26m

John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 12, 2023 • 1h 0m

Mark Goodall, "Gathering of the Tribe: A Companion to Occult Music on Vinyl" (Headpress, 2022)

May 12, 2023 • 41m

Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

May 11, 2023 • 1h 0m

Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)

May 7, 2023 • 42m

Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)

May 7, 2023 • 1h 6m

Journalistic Collaboration (JP)

May 4, 2023 • 52m

James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

May 2, 2023 • 1h 35m

Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)

Apr 30, 2023 • 52m

Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Apr 26, 2023 • 57m

Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)

Apr 25, 2023 • 52m

Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)

Apr 20, 2023 • 52m

Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Apr 20, 2023 • 47m

Justin L. Bergner, "Solving the Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions On and Off the Set of America's Celebrated Game Show" (Prometheus Books, 2023)

Apr 19, 2023 • 54m

Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 7m

Dwayne Epstein, "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time" (Citadel Press, 2023)

Apr 18, 2023 • 52m

The Garage: A History

Apr 16, 2023 • 25m

Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)

Apr 13, 2023 • 1h 1m

Hearts of Men: How Should Progressives React to Masculinity Influencers like Andrew Tate?

Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 30m

Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Apr 11, 2023 • 40m

Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Apr 10, 2023 • 52m

Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)

Apr 8, 2023 • 43m

Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Apr 7, 2023 • 45m

Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

Apr 4, 2023 • 55m

Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)

Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 17m

Geoff Harkness, "DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Mar 30, 2023 • 50m

Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)

Mar 30, 2023 • 54m

Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)

Mar 28, 2023 • 41m

Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)

Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 2m

David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Mar 24, 2023 • 53m

Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Mar 20, 2023 • 54m

Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)

Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 12m

Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)

Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 46m

John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)

Mar 17, 2023 • 53m

Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)

Mar 16, 2023 • 1h 7m

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)

Mar 16, 2023 • 49m

The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3

Mar 13, 2023 • 38m

Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)

Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 6m

Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Mar 12, 2023 • 47m

Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

Mar 11, 2023 • 1h 3m

Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)

Mar 11, 2023 • 57m

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 10, 2023 • 45m

Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Mar 7, 2023 • 1h 7m

The Los Angeles Review of Books: A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke

Mar 6, 2023 • 39m

The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2

Mar 6, 2023 • 32m

Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Mar 6, 2023 • 39m

Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies

Mar 5, 2023 • 16m

Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)

Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 8m

Affective Masculinities

Feb 27, 2023 • 19m

The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1

Feb 27, 2023 • 29m

Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)

Feb 26, 2023 • 59m

Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 8m

Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, "The Sounds of Spectators at Football" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 2m

Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)

Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 9m

Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Feb 23, 2023 • 51m

Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)

Feb 22, 2023 • 47m

Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 20, 2023 • 39m

Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)

Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 33m

Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)

Feb 18, 2023 • 55m

Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)

Feb 14, 2023 • 42m

Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler, "The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

Feb 14, 2023 • 53m

Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)

Feb 14, 2023 • 55m

Lauron J. Kehrer, "Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

Feb 14, 2023 • 56m

Jonathan Ervine, "Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions" (Liverpool UP, 2019)

Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 0m

Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels

Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 1m

Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)

Feb 8, 2023 • 50m

Chris Kempshall, "The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)

Feb 7, 2023 • 1h 0m

J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)

Feb 6, 2023 • 57m

Steven Hyden, "Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Hachette Books, 2022)

Feb 6, 2023 • 46m

Deep Cuts: Classic Rock and Hair Metal with Professor and Guitarist Jesse Kavadlo

Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 8m

Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 27m

Maria Sonevytsky, "Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine" (Wesleyan UP, 2019)

Jan 28, 2023 • 1h 1m

Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)

Jan 26, 2023 • 31m

Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)

Jan 24, 2023 • 57m

Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

Jan 24, 2023 • 50m

Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)

Jan 22, 2023 • 38m

Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 13m

Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)

Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 2m

Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 37m

Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)

Jan 18, 2023 • 31m

Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Jan 14, 2023 • 48m

Child's Play: The Seriousness of Children's Literature

Jan 13, 2023 • 29m

Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)

Jan 13, 2023 • 55m

Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)

Jan 13, 2023 • 59m

The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)

Jan 12, 2023 • 34m

The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 1)

Jan 11, 2023 • 40m

Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jan 11, 2023 • 42m

The Fremen in "Dune"

Jan 10, 2023 • 54m

Romani Representation in Pop Culture

Jan 9, 2023 • 54m

Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 11m

Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 23m

Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)

Jan 6, 2023 • 49m

Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 27m

Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"

Jan 4, 2023 • 13m

Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jan 4, 2023 • 51m

Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.

Jan 3, 2023 • 42m

Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy

Jan 3, 2023 • 14m

Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Jan 2, 2023 • 33m

Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"

Jan 1, 2023 • 29m

"Gone with the Wind" Revisited

Dec 28, 2022 • 34m

Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)

Dec 25, 2022 • 36m

Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Dec 25, 2022 • 52m

Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)

Dec 25, 2022 • 27m

Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Dec 23, 2022 • 59m

What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin

Dec 23, 2022 • 45m

Jane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Dec 19, 2022 • 59m

John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)

Dec 18, 2022 • 58m

Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Dec 18, 2022 • 49m

Thomas Beller, "Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball" (Duke UP, 2022)

Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 13m

Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 16m

Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)

Dec 11, 2022 • 42m

Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)

Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 5m

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

Dec 5, 2022 • 41m

Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)

Dec 4, 2022 • 51m

Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)

Dec 4, 2022 • 52m

Craig Oldham, "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting" (Rough Trade Books, 2022)

Dec 3, 2022 • 53m

Lisa Morton, "Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Nov 28, 2022 • 44m

Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)

Nov 25, 2022 • 32m

Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)

Nov 25, 2022 • 56m

Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Nov 25, 2022 • 43m

Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 18m

Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 27m

Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)

Nov 23, 2022 • 47m

Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)

Nov 22, 2022 • 40m

Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 5m

Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Nov 21, 2022 • 57m

Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)

Nov 17, 2022 • 46m

Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia: A Conversation with Annie Rauwerda

Nov 17, 2022 • 33m

Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)

Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 9m

Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Nov 14, 2022 • 33m

Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Nov 14, 2022 • 42m

Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 3m

Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Nov 10, 2022 • 50m

Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

Nov 9, 2022 • 45m

Bruce Davis, "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" (Brandeis UP, 2022)

Nov 8, 2022 • 1h 6m

Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Nov 8, 2022 • 41m

Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Nov 7, 2022 • 49m

Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)

Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 8m

Shaken and Stirred

Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 3m

Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)

Nov 2, 2022 • 47m

Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)

Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 5m

Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)

Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 5m

Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 2m

Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 2m

Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 3m

Shall We Play A Game?

Oct 26, 2022 • 51m

Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)

Oct 26, 2022 • 31m

Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)

Oct 26, 2022 • 55m

Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 4m

Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)

Oct 25, 2022 • 44m

Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)

Oct 24, 2022 • 45m

Darrel Perkins, "The End Is At Hand" (Feral House, 2022)

Oct 21, 2022 • 52m

Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)

Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 12m

91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)

Oct 20, 2022 • 31m

Wolverines!

Oct 19, 2022 • 56m

John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)

Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 25m

John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)

Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 7m

Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)

Oct 17, 2022 • 36m

Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)

Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 11m

Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)

Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 6m

Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Oct 13, 2022 • 50m

Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)

Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 1m

Alan Warde et al., "The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change" (Manchester UP, 2020)

Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 7m

Alena Pirok, "The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 14m

Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

Oct 11, 2022 • 37m

Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)

Oct 11, 2022 • 55m

Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)

Oct 7, 2022 • 43m

Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)

Oct 6, 2022 • 38m

Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)

Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 8m

Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Oct 6, 2022 • 43m

The Two Russias

Oct 5, 2022 • 54m

Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Oct 3, 2022 • 40m

Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 6m

Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)

Sep 29, 2022 • 57m

Cold War Homefront

Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 3m

Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)

Sep 27, 2022 • 44m

Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)

Sep 27, 2022 • 52m

Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Sep 26, 2022 • 42m

Andrew Bomback, "Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting" (MIT Press, 2022)

Sep 23, 2022 • 33m

Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 3m

Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2021)

Sep 22, 2022 • 32m

Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Sep 21, 2022 • 43m

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It

Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 13m

Stevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)

Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 7m

Emily Bingham, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song" (Knopf, 2022)

Sep 19, 2022 • 59m

Brian D. Bunk, "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Sep 19, 2022 • 53m

Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Sep 16, 2022 • 35m

Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)

Sep 16, 2022 • 53m

Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains" (Duke UP, 2022)

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 7m

A MAD, MAD, World

Sep 14, 2022 • 58m

Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)

Sep 13, 2022 • 37m

Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

Sep 13, 2022 • 54m

Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)

Sep 12, 2022 • 36m

Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)

Sep 7, 2022 • 1h 5m

Who Can You Trust?

Sep 7, 2022 • 56m

Davida Breier, "Sinkhole" (U New Orleans Press, 2022)

Sep 7, 2022 • 47m

Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Sep 6, 2022 • 48m

Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Sep 2, 2022 • 41m

Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner" (Norton, 2022)

Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 3m

William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)

Sep 2, 2022 • 58m

Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Sep 1, 2022 • 43m

88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic

Sep 1, 2022 • 46m

Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Sep 1, 2022 • 37m

He May Be a Communist!

Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 0m

Will Birch, "Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe" (Da Capo Press, 2019)

Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 9m

Paul Oyer, "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports" (Yale UP, 2022)

Aug 29, 2022 • 57m

Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports

Aug 26, 2022 • 34m

Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)

Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 18m

Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization

Aug 25, 2022 • 46m

James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 10m

Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2022)

Aug 24, 2022 • 59m

Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games

Aug 23, 2022 • 1h 1m

Reality TV

Aug 23, 2022 • 16m

Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage

Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 8m

Andrew M. Guest, "Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Aug 18, 2022 • 1h 9m

87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)

Aug 18, 2022 • 51m

Rebecca Weeks, "History by HBO: Televising the American Past" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)

Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 5m

Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Aug 12, 2022 • 40m

Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 11, 2022 • 53m

Minh-Ha T. Pham, "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property" (Duke UP, 2022)

Aug 10, 2022 • 51m

Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)

Aug 10, 2022 • 56m

M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Aug 9, 2022 • 52m

On Apocalypse Stories

Aug 9, 2022 • 1h 11m

Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 8, 2022 • 1h 13m

Tara Nurin, "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)

Aug 8, 2022 • 47m

Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Aug 5, 2022 • 1h 0m

86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)

Aug 4, 2022 • 42m

Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 2m

Jin Feng, "Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways" (U Washington Press, 2019)

Aug 1, 2022 • 41m

Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Aug 1, 2022 • 57m

John M. Shaw, "Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Aug 1, 2022 • 48m

Jeff Hayton, "Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jul 28, 2022 • 1h 7m

Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jul 27, 2022 • 1h 24m

Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)

Jul 26, 2022 • 1h 23m

Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)

Jul 21, 2022 • 33m

Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania

Jul 19, 2022 • 1h 26m

Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)

Jul 19, 2022 • 58m

Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)

Jul 19, 2022 • 1h 6m

Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Day Street, 2022)

Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 6m

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick, "Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

Jul 18, 2022 • 46m

Monuments

Jul 15, 2022 • 19m

Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Cultures in the United States" (Routledge, 2022)

Jul 11, 2022 • 39m

Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jul 11, 2022 • 1h 3m

Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)

Jul 8, 2022 • 52m

Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)

Jul 8, 2022 • 1h 11m

Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Jul 8, 2022 • 44m

Squid Game

Jul 6, 2022 • 13m

Ashley Remer and Tiffany Isselhardt, "Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 5m

Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" (Jawbone, 2021)

Jul 5, 2022 • 1h 4m

A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)

Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 5m

Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre, "Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 0m

Stefanie K. Dunning, "Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jul 1, 2022 • 43m

Daniel Silva, "Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Jul 1, 2022 • 42m

Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)

Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 22m

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Jun 27, 2022 • 47m

Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)

Jun 23, 2022 • 55m

Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 11m

Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

Jun 20, 2022 • 50m

Fandom

Jun 17, 2022 • 18m

Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 13m

83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith

Jun 16, 2022 • 27m

John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

Jun 15, 2022 • 56m

Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 45m

Edward Anthony Avery-Natale, "Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia" (Lexington, 2016)

Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 11m

Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)

Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 10m

Melissa Vosen Callens, "Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in 'Stranger Things' and 1980s Film" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jun 9, 2022 • 40m

Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)

Jun 8, 2022 • 1h 9m

Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jun 8, 2022 • 57m

Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)

Jun 7, 2022 • 1h 2m

Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)

Jun 6, 2022 • 42m

Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 4m

82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)

Jun 2, 2022 • 54m

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)

Jun 1, 2022 • 1h 1m

Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)

May 31, 2022 • 1h 4m

Crosswords

May 31, 2022 • 16m

Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia

May 26, 2022 • 23m

Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

May 26, 2022 • 45m

Mike Errico, "Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter" (Backbeat Book, 2022)

May 26, 2022 • 36m

Alejandro Nava, "Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

May 25, 2022 • 50m

Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)

May 25, 2022 • 41m

Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

May 18, 2022 • 1h 20m

Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)

May 17, 2022 • 48m

Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

May 13, 2022 • 3h 19m

Nigel Rothfels, "Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

May 13, 2022 • 1h 8m

Craig Calcaterra, "Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game" (Belt Publishing, 2022)

May 5, 2022 • 1h 8m

The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann

May 3, 2022 • 45m

Nancy Barile, "I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion" (Bazillion Points, 2021)

Apr 28, 2022 • 1h 4m

Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)

Apr 28, 2022 • 1h 1m

Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)

Apr 27, 2022 • 56m

Thomas Aiello, "Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 3m

Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)

Apr 26, 2022 • 39m

Sam Lebovic, "A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Apr 22, 2022 • 1h 1m

JVN

Apr 21, 2022 • 11m

Paul R. Deslandes, "The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Apr 19, 2022 • 57m

Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, "Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Apr 19, 2022 • 1h 23m

Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Apr 19, 2022 • 43m

Corey Landon Wozniak, "The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City" (Revealer, 2022)

Apr 18, 2022 • 42m

Nancy Pedri, "A Concise Dictionary of Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Apr 18, 2022 • 42m

Kenneth Partridge, "Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

Apr 15, 2022 • 45m

Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 12m

Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 12m

78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya

Apr 7, 2022 • 47m

David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Apr 6, 2022 • 54m

Albena Shkodrova, "Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Apr 6, 2022 • 51m

Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)

Apr 6, 2022 • 50m

Hugo Ceron-Anaya, "Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Apr 6, 2022 • 53m

Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Apr 5, 2022 • 48m

Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)

Apr 4, 2022 • 1h 1m

Kelly Herold et al., "Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017" (Brill, 2021)

Apr 1, 2022 • 48m

All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press

Apr 1, 2022 • 24m

Jessica P. Clark, "The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Mar 31, 2022 • 29m

Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)

Mar 30, 2022 • 52m

Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)

Mar 30, 2022 • 57m

Kate Guthrie, "The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain" (U California Press, 2021)

Mar 29, 2022 • 1h 13m

Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Mar 25, 2022 • 37m

Francesca Morgan, "A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History" (UNC Press, 2021)

Mar 25, 2022 • 1h 21m

Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 14m

Daudi Abe, "Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 24m

Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

Mar 17, 2022 • 54m

E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)

Mar 17, 2022 • 1h 10m

Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)

Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 2m

Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)

Mar 16, 2022 • 53m

Valerie Chepp, "Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 2m

Mike McCartney, "Mike McCartney's Early Liverpool" (Genesis Publications, 2021)

Mar 15, 2022 • 1h 11m

Tim Smolko and Joanna Smolko, "Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Mar 11, 2022 • 47m

Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Mar 11, 2022 • 50m

Uwe Schütte, "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany" (Penguin, 2021)

Mar 10, 2022 • 56m

Dahlia Schweitzer, "Haunted Homes" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Mar 10, 2022 • 52m

Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)

Mar 9, 2022 • 56m

Samir Chopra, "The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey" (Temple UP, 2021)

Mar 9, 2022 • 1h 6m

Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)

Mar 8, 2022 • 1h 1m

William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Feb 24, 2022 • 1h 32m

Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Feb 22, 2022 • 1h 3m

Clarissa Ceglio, "A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of U.S. Museums" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

Feb 18, 2022 • 1h 12m

Michella M. Marino, "Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport" (U Texas Press, 2021)

Feb 17, 2022 • 1h 6m

Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)

Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 0m

Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)

Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 0m

Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts, "Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 3m

Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021)

Feb 4, 2022 • 49m

Michael Stewart Foley, "Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash" (Basic Books, 2021)

Feb 2, 2022 • 1h 31m

Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 3m

Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)

Jan 28, 2022 • 53m

Kirsten W. Larson, "A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything" (Clarion Books, 2021)

Jan 27, 2022 • 41m

Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)

Jan 26, 2022 • 54m

Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)

Jan 21, 2022 • 1h 20m

Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Jan 20, 2022 • 57m

Georgia Cervin, "Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Jan 20, 2022 • 1h 0m

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa et al., "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)

Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 2m

Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Jan 17, 2022 • 55m

Jake Johnson, "Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Jan 13, 2022 • 57m

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Jan 7, 2022 • 1h 2m

Winfrey Harris, "The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)

Dec 24, 2021 • 38m

Vivian Nun Halloran, "The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora" (Ohio State UP, 2016)

Dec 17, 2021 • 23m

Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Dec 16, 2021 • 1h 8m

"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains

Dec 15, 2021 • 39m

Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Dec 15, 2021 • 45m

Bryant Terry, "Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora" (4 Color Books, 2021)

Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 10m

Kate Fortmueller, "Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID" (U Texas Press, 2021)

Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 8m

Dave Zirin, "The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World" (New Press, 2021)

Dec 8, 2021 • 50m

Alisa Freedman, "Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost" (Association for Asian Studies, 2021)

Dec 8, 2021 • 58m

Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Dec 7, 2021 • 1h 22m

Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 7, 2021 • 58m

Caetlin Benson-Allott, "The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television" (U California Press, 2021)

Dec 6, 2021 • 56m

Demet Güzey, "Mustard: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)

Nov 30, 2021 • 22m

Yael Levy, "Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

Nov 26, 2021 • 1h 2m

Carolyn L. White, "The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)

Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 1m

Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)

Nov 11, 2021 • 1h 22m

Samantha Durbin, "Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s" (She Writes Press, 2021)

Nov 5, 2021 • 57m

Amy Sodaro, "Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Nov 4, 2021 • 1h 2m

David Pearson, "Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Oct 26, 2021 • 56m

Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)

Oct 26, 2021 • 53m

Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)

Oct 25, 2021 • 39m

Ashley Hinck, "Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World" (LSU Press, 2019)

Oct 22, 2021 • 58m

Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)

Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 3m

Alex E. Chávez, "Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño" (Duke UP, 2017)

Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 12m

Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Oct 21, 2021 • 59m

Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson, "Reclaiming Popular Documentary" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Oct 19, 2021 • 1h 16m

Cyrus R. K. Patell, "Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Oct 18, 2021 • 1h 5m

David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Oct 18, 2021 • 1h 16m

Kemi Adeyemi et al., "Queer Nightlife" (U Michigan Press, 2021)

Oct 18, 2021 • 53m

Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite, "A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History Of 309" (UP of Florida, 2021)

Oct 18, 2021 • 1h 8m

Mike Dines et al., "The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global" (Intellect, 2019)

Oct 12, 2021 • 56m

Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson, "Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back" (U Texas Press, 2020)

Oct 11, 2021 • 53m

John Wigger, "PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Oct 5, 2021 • 30m

Shayna Maskell, "Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Sep 28, 2021 • 59m

Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts, "Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television" (Syracuse UP, 2020)

Sep 24, 2021 • 53m

Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Sep 22, 2021 • 51m

Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)

Sep 21, 2021 • 1h 5m

Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Sep 20, 2021 • 49m

Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)

Sep 17, 2021 • 1h 6m

Thomas Michael Kersen, "Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Sep 16, 2021 • 59m

Martin Harris, "Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire" (Headpress, 2021)

Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 3m

Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)

Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 4m

Cameron Crookston, "The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging?" (Intellect, 2021)

Sep 6, 2021 • 56m

Gerd Horten, "Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Berghahn Books, 2020)

Sep 2, 2021 • 1h 34m

Caseen Gaines, "Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way" (Sourcebooks, 2021)

Aug 31, 2021 • 49m

P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)

Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 5m

Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)

Aug 11, 2021 • 1h 15m

Alison Rose Jefferson, "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

Aug 9, 2021 • 1h 10m

Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Aug 4, 2021 • 38m

Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)

Jul 30, 2021 • 57m

Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)

Jul 28, 2021 • 1h 28m

Alison K. Smith, "Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia" (Reaktion Books, 2021)

Jul 27, 2021 • 1h 2m

Joseph P. Laycock, "Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds" (U California Press, 2015)

Jul 26, 2021 • 1h 17m

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 12m

James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, "Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice" (Routledge, 2020)

Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 18m

Knitting and Politics in the Age of Trump: A Discussion with Carrie Battan

Jul 20, 2021 • 37m

Pablo Palomino, "The Invention of Latin American Music" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jul 20, 2021 • 53m

Gina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)

Jul 20, 2021 • 1h 19m

Eric C. Rath, "Oishii: The History of Sushi" (Reaktion Books, 2021)

Jul 14, 2021 • 56m

Alan McDougall, "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

Jul 12, 2021 • 1h 2m

Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, "Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Jul 12, 2021 • 1h 3m

Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)

Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 26m

Jeanne Pitre Soileau, "Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)

Jul 6, 2021 • 55m

Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)

Jun 29, 2021 • 54m

Alessandro Testa, "Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe" (Routledge, 2020)

Jun 25, 2021 • 1h 5m

Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

Jun 25, 2021 • 51m

Annelise Heinz, "Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jun 24, 2021 • 1h 15m

Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Jun 23, 2021 • 52m

Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Jun 22, 2021 • 58m

Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 11m

François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)

Jun 16, 2021 • 1h 5m

Mark Mordue, "Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave" (HarperCollins, 2020)

Jun 16, 2021 • 1h 43m

Eviatar Zerubavel, "Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable" (Princeton UP, 2018)

Jun 15, 2021 • 40m

Peter Morey, "Islamophobia and the Novel" (Columbia UP, 2018)

Jun 11, 2021 • 1h 1m

Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)

Jun 3, 2021 • 1h 12m

Jordan A. Stein, "When Novels Were Books" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Jun 2, 2021 • 39m

Dianne Jacob, "Will Write for Food" (Hachette Go, 2021)

Jun 2, 2021 • 51m

Julie Golia, "Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jun 1, 2021 • 52m

Patrick Maille, "The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jun 1, 2021 • 1h 4m

Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)

May 31, 2021 • 1h 2m

Benjamin Piekut, "Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem" (Duke UP, 2019)

May 28, 2021 • 49m

Blake Scott Ball, "Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts" (Oxford UP, 2021)

May 25, 2021 • 1h 12m

Makis Solomos, "From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th and 21st-century Music" (Routledge, 2019)

May 21, 2021 • 1h 17m

Katrina Phillips, "Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History" (UNC Press, 2021)

May 21, 2021 • 57m

Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)

May 21, 2021 • 45m

Nicole Tersigni, "Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020)

May 20, 2021 • 29m

Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)

May 20, 2021 • 47m

David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)

May 19, 2021 • 1h 0m

Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)

May 17, 2021 • 54m

Stephanie Burt, "After Callimachus: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2020)

May 17, 2021 • 52m

Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

May 13, 2021 • 56m

William G. Acree, "Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)

May 12, 2021 • 1h 9m

Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)

May 11, 2021 • 54m

Christina Ward, "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" (Process, 2018)

May 10, 2021 • 59m

Lindsay Gardner, "Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection" (Workman, 2021)

May 7, 2021 • 54m

Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)

May 7, 2021 • 1h 17m

Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)

May 6, 2021 • 41m

Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)

May 4, 2021 • 1h 0m

Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)

May 3, 2021 • 56m

Nikki Lane, "The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

Apr 29, 2021 • 1h 14m

Jack Black, "Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration" (Routledge, 2021)

Apr 28, 2021 • 1h 6m

Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Apr 27, 2021 • 43m

Steven Capsuto, "Alternate Channels: Queer Images on 20th-Century TV" (2020)

Apr 23, 2021 • 57m

Bernadette Barton, "The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society" (NYU Press, 2021)

Apr 23, 2021 • 41m

Joel Waldfogel, "Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Apr 21, 2021 • 47m

Bill Nowlin, "Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records" (Equinox, 2021)

Apr 20, 2021 • 47m

Regina N. Bradley, "Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South" (UNC Press, 2021)

Apr 19, 2021 • 1h 6m

Richard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Apr 16, 2021 • 47m

Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Apr 16, 2021 • 1h 16m

Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Apr 15, 2021 • 55m

Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 13m

Sibbie O'Sullivan, "My Private Lennon: Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)

Apr 9, 2021 • 58m

R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)

Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 5m

Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

Apr 8, 2021 • 51m

Amanda Ann Klein, "Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" (Duke UP, 2021)

Apr 5, 2021 • 57m

Lucas Richert, "Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture" (MIT Press, 2020)

Apr 5, 2021 • 47m

M. I. Devine, "Warhol's Mother's Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)

Apr 2, 2021 • 50m

Doug Bierend. "In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms" (Chelsea Green, 2021)

Apr 2, 2021 • 55m

Tyler Sonnichsen, "Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

Mar 29, 2021 • 58m

Nate Chinen, "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" (Vintage, 2019)

Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 1m

Angela Firkus, "America's Early Women Celebrities: The Famous and Scorned from Martha Washington to Silent Film Star Mary Fuller" (McFarland, 2021)

Mar 23, 2021 • 49m

Thomas C. Hubka, "How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Mar 19, 2021 • 38m

Steven Blush, "Bustin' Balls: World Team Tennis 1974-1978, Pro Sports, Pop Culture and Progressive Politics" (Feral Press, 2020)

Mar 18, 2021 • 54m

Karen Jones, "Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane" (Yale UP, 2020)

Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 1m

Evan Friss, "The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

Mar 5, 2021 • 56m

Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Perish" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mar 4, 2021 • 1h 8m

Evan Rapport, "Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Mar 1, 2021 • 1h 8m

Stephanie Russo, "The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Mar 1, 2021 • 50m

Enrico Bonadio, "Protecting Art in the Street: A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti" (Dokument Forlag, 2020)

Feb 25, 2021 • 41m

Candacy Taylor, "Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America" (Abrams Press, 2020)

Feb 25, 2021 • 37m

Robert L. Stone, "Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community" (U of Mississippi Press, 2020)

Feb 23, 2021 • 1h 1m

Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)

Feb 19, 2021 • 59m

Emily Willingham, "Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis" (Avery, 2020)

Feb 17, 2021 • 42m

Meenakshi Gigi Durham, "MeToo: How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All" (Polity, 2021)

Feb 15, 2021 • 55m

Howard Sherman, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)

Feb 15, 2021 • 47m

Jeremy Black, "A History of the 20th Century: Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'roll" (Sirius Entertainment, 2021)

Feb 12, 2021 • 38m

Paul O. Jenkins, "Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World" (West Virginia UP, 2020)

Feb 11, 2021 • 33m

R. Roberts and J. Smith, "War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War" (Basic Books, 2020)

Feb 9, 2021 • 26m

Kimberly Mack, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White" (U Mass Press, 2020)

Feb 5, 2021 • 47m

Barbara Black, "Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories" (Ohio State UP, 2019)

Feb 2, 2021 • 1h 0m

Sabrina Mittermeier, "A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms" (Intellect, 2020)

Jan 29, 2021 • 37m

J. Beineke and J. Rosenhouse, eds., "The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math" (Princeton UP, 2015)

Jan 25, 2021 • 56m

J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Jan 25, 2021 • 56m

David C. Lane, "Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Jan 19, 2021 • 49m

Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Jan 11, 2021 • 1h 18m

Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)

Jan 8, 2021 • 1h 6m

Daniel Horowitz, "Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times" (UNC Press, 2020)

Jan 8, 2021 • 31m

Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)

Jan 6, 2021 • 51m

Jennifer Burek Pierce, "Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media" (U Iowa Press, 2020)

Jan 5, 2021 • 45m

Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein" (Daisy H. Productions, 2020)

Jan 4, 2021 • 29m

Kyle Riismandel, "Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

Dec 29, 2020 • 42m

Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)

Dec 29, 2020 • 1h 17m

Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)

Dec 23, 2020 • 1h 10m

Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Dec 21, 2020 • 1h 0m

Pete Croatto, "From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA" (Atria Books, 2020)

Dec 21, 2020 • 57m

R. Garofalo, E. T. Allen, A. Snyder, "Honk!: A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism" (Routledge, 2019)

Dec 21, 2020 • 1h 30m

Laurent Fintoni, "Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century" (Velocity Press, 2020)

Dec 21, 2020 • 56m

Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Dec 21, 2020 • 1h 0m

Sharon Marcus, "The Drama of Celebrity" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Dec 17, 2020 • 51m

Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)

Dec 15, 2020 • 1h 6m

N. Mclaughlin and J. Braniff, "How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in The 1960s" (Intellect, 2020)

Dec 14, 2020 • 1h 11m

Jack Zipes on Life as a Folklorist, Folklore Studies and Publishing Fairy Tales

Dec 14, 2020 • 44m

Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Dec 14, 2020 • 1h 1m

Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work" (Zone Books, 2020)

Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 1m

Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Dec 2, 2020 • 56m

Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Nov 30, 2020 • 45m

D. G. Young, "Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Nov 27, 2020 • 1h 3m

Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)

Nov 25, 2020 • 51m

Travis Vogan, "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television" (U California Press, 2018)

Nov 25, 2020 • 57m

Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)

Nov 19, 2020 • 1h 6m

Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid" (Ohio State UP, 2019)

Nov 18, 2020 • 1h 21m

Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)

Nov 18, 2020 • 42m

E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Nov 18, 2020 • 49m

Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)

Nov 18, 2020 • 50m

Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century" (MIT Press, 2020)

Nov 13, 2020 • 1h 6m

Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Nov 13, 2020 • 51m

Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 6m

Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 7m

C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Nov 10, 2020 • 1h 7m

Billy Coleman, "Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788-1865" (UNC Press, 2020)

Nov 6, 2020 • 1h 9m

Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)

Oct 30, 2020 • 54m

Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical", 2nd edition (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Oct 28, 2020 • 56m

Neil Shister, "Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World" (Counterpoint, 2019)

Oct 26, 2020 • 1h 0m

Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Oct 26, 2020 • 1h 3m

Simone C. Drake, "Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Duke UP, 2020)

Oct 22, 2020 • 56m

Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 34m

Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 1m

Barbara Keys, "The Ideal of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

Oct 16, 2020 • 52m

Paul Howe, "Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Oct 16, 2020 • 1h 13m

Joel Miller, "Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I made a Great Cup of Tea…" (2020)

Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 2m

John Locke, "Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by Margie Harris" (Off-Trail Publications, 2011)

Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 7m

Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)

Oct 12, 2020 • 57m

Glenn Kenny, "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas" (Hanover Square, 2020)

Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 0m

Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Sep 25, 2020 • 57m

Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

Sep 22, 2020 • 30m

Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Sep 21, 2020 • 1h 1m

Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce and Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Sep 21, 2020 • 43m

Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Sep 18, 2020 • 1h 11m

Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque" (UP Colorado, 2017)

Sep 17, 2020 • 1h 8m

Jessica Pierce, "Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

Sep 14, 2020 • 1h 13m

Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Sep 10, 2020 • 1h 3m

Isabella Cosse, "Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic" (Duke UP, 2019)

Sep 8, 2020 • 35m

Judith Mair, "The Routledge Handbook of Festivals" (Routledge, 2018)

Sep 7, 2020 • 46m

Stooges Brass Band, "Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)

Sep 7, 2020 • 1h 23m

C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultural Economy" (Routledge, 2018)

Sep 4, 2020 • 44m

M. Hinds and J. Silverman, "Johnny Cash International: How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black" (U Iowa Press, 2020)

Sep 2, 2020 • 1h 11m

Dana Renga, "Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television: Gomorrah and Beyond" (Palgrave MacMillan, 20

Aug 26, 2020 • 56m

Elspeth H. Brown, "Work! A Queer History of Modelling" (Duke UP, 2019)

Aug 20, 2020 • 45m

Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation" (Beacon, 2019)

Aug 19, 2020 • 1h 2m

Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Aug 13, 2020 • 1h 10m

Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)

Aug 11, 2020 • 54m

Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920" (LSU Press, 2017)

Aug 10, 2020 • 1h 6m

M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence" (Duke UP, 2020)

Aug 7, 2020 • 1h 12m

Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)

Aug 5, 2020 • 1h 4m

Caridad Svich, "Mitchell and Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (Routledge, 2019

Aug 3, 2020 • 51m

Martin James, "State of Base: The Origins of Jungle/Drum and Bass" (Velocity Press, 2020)

Jul 31, 2020 • 48m

Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and The Battles of Lev Gleason" (Chapterhouse Publishing, 2020)

Jul 30, 2020 • 48m

Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age" (Routledge, 2020)

Jul 29, 2020 • 1h 7m

The Joker: How a “Typical Hoodlum” Character of the ‘40s Attained Cult Status Today

Jul 29, 2020 • 25m

Junior Tomlin, "Junior Tomlin: Flyer and Cover Art" (Velocity Press, 2020)

Jul 28, 2020 • 58m

Thomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter" (UMass Press, 2020)

Jul 24, 2020 • 29m

Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)

Jul 24, 2020 • 1h 9m

Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)

Jul 24, 2020 • 50m

Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

Jul 23, 2020 • 1h 3m

Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Yale UP, 2020)

Jul 16, 2020 • 1h 0m

Christopher Bonanos, "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous" (Henry Holt, 2018)

Jul 10, 2020 • 42m

Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem Tree Press, 2020)

Jul 9, 2020 • 46m

Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Jul 6, 2020 • 48m

Grace Elizabeth Hale, "Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)

Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 23m

Kennan Ferguson, "Cookbooks Politics" (U Penn Press, 2020)

Jul 1, 2020 • 52m

Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jun 24, 2020 • 1h 4m

David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)

Jun 22, 2020 • 1h 12m

Scott Laderman, "Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing" (U California Press, 2014)

Jun 19, 2020 • 1h 17m

Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Jun 18, 2020 • 35m

R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)

Jun 17, 2020 • 50m

Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Jun 8, 2020 • 1h 11m

Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)

Jun 5, 2020 • 1h 4m

Kenneth Womack, "Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jun 4, 2020 • 47m

Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)

Jun 3, 2020 • 55m

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

Jun 2, 2020 • 2h 0m

Dale Cockrell, "Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917" (Norton, 2019)

Jun 2, 2020 • 1h 0m

Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

May 29, 2020 • 1h 6m

E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)

May 25, 2020 • 55m

Ashley Mears, "Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit" (Princeton UP, 2020)

May 22, 2020 • 52m

May 18, 2020 • 1h 11m

Stacy Wolf, "Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America" (Oxford UP, 2019)

May 18, 2020 • 1h 7m

Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports" (Temple UP, 2020)

May 7, 2020 • 1h 6m

J. Packer and E. Stoneman, "A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2019)

May 6, 2020 • 1h 6m

Tyler Bickford, "Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture" (Duke UP, 2020)

May 5, 2020 • 1h 15m

James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided America" (Penguin, 2020)

Apr 29, 2020 • 1h 10m

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Apr 28, 2020 • 59m

Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City" (Manchester UP, 2019)

Apr 24, 2020 • 45m

Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Apr 24, 2020 • 1h 0m

Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)

Apr 15, 2020 • 1h 30m

Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)

Apr 10, 2020 • 1h 0m

Margaret Hillenbrand, "Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2020)

Apr 2, 2020 • 1h 1m

Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)

Mar 30, 2020 • 54m

Joseph Reagle, "Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents" (MIT Press, 2019)

Mar 26, 2020 • 1h 16m

Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

Mar 26, 2020 • 56m

Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)

Mar 24, 2020 • 57m

Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music" (Manchester UP, 2020)

Mar 16, 2020 • 38m

B. J. Hollars, "Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Mar 13, 2020 • 44m

Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"

Mar 10, 2020 • 1h 0m

M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, "Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit’s r/gaming Community" (Palgrave, 2019)

Mar 9, 2020 • 39m

Lynn Neal, "Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America" (NYU Press, 2019)

Mar 3, 2020 • 54m

Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)

Mar 3, 2020 • 52m

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Feb 25, 2020 • 42m

L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Feb 21, 2020 • 1h 2m

Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

Feb 11, 2020 • 1h 1m

Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)

Feb 7, 2020 • 38m

Kyle Devine, "Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music" (MIT Press, 2019)

Feb 5, 2020 • 42m

Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)

Feb 4, 2020 • 1h 1m

Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)

Jan 31, 2020 • 1h 7m

K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)

Jan 30, 2020 • 39m

Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jan 24, 2020 • 31m

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)

Jan 20, 2020 • 1h 6m

Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

Jan 13, 2020 • 45m

Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Jan 13, 2020 • 1h 0m

Hillary Reinsberg, "Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants: Special 40th Anniversary Edition" (Zagat, 2019)

Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 5m

Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Dec 26, 2019 • 49m

Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)

Dec 17, 2019 • 1h 8m

Joshua Sperber, "Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace" (Lexington, 2019)

Dec 16, 2019 • 1h 3m

Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)

Dec 12, 2019 • 1h 9m

Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939" (Lexington Books, 2019)

Dec 12, 2019 • 46m

Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Dec 10, 2019 • 42m

Alexandra D'Arcy, "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE" (John Benjamins, 2017)

Dec 4, 2019 • 1h 11m

Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

Dec 3, 2019 • 57m

Ann K. McClellan, "Sherlock’s World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC’s Sherlock" (U Iowa Press, 2018)

Nov 26, 2019 • 1h 9m

Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

Nov 21, 2019 • 52m

Mark Alizart, "Dogs" (Polity, 2019)

Nov 18, 2019 • 47m

Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

Nov 14, 2019 • 54m

Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Nov 12, 2019 • 1h 8m

Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy" (Gylphi, 2019)

Nov 8, 2019 • 45m

Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music" (Duke UP, 2019)

Nov 4, 2019 • 1h 9m

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Nov 3, 2019 • 40m

Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re-Imaging Gender in Wakanda" (WDL, 2019)

Oct 28, 2019 • 47m

Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polity, 2019)

Oct 25, 2019 • 41m

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

Oct 24, 2019 • 32m

Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sport" (U Nebraska, 2019)

Oct 18, 2019 • 1h 7m

Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Oct 11, 2019 • 1h 3m

Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)

Oct 11, 2019 • 51m

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)

Oct 3, 2019 • 52m

Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselves: How Food has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)

Sep 18, 2019 • 56m

Emily Dufton, "Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America" (Basic Books, 2017)

Aug 30, 2019 • 36m

Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)

Aug 29, 2019 • 36m

Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019)

Aug 26, 2019 • 39m

Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Aug 13, 2019 • 1h 6m

Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic" (Yale UP, 2019)

Aug 7, 2019 • 30m

William Gibbons, "Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Aug 6, 2019 • 1h 0m

Krishnendu Ray, "The Ethnic Restaurateur" (Bloomsbury, 2016)

Jul 31, 2019 • 47m

Howard Philips Smith, "Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)

Jul 30, 2019 • 1h 3m

David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thought, Settings and Issues" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

Jul 29, 2019 • 53m

Vicki Howard, "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Jul 24, 2019 • 44m

Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Jul 22, 2019 • 59m

Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, "This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)

Jul 19, 2019 • 1h 5m

Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music" (Dey St. Books, 2017)

Jul 17, 2019 • 1h 3m

Susan Brownell, "The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics" (U California Press, 2018)

Jul 15, 2019 • 53m

Kerry Eggers, "Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball" (Sport Publishing, 2018)

Jul 11, 2019 • 30m

Tanisha C. Ford, "Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion" (St. Martins Press, 2019)

Jul 10, 2019 • 1h 9m

Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)

Jul 9, 2019 • 53m

Diana Pasulka, "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jul 8, 2019 • 58m

Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Global History" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Jul 3, 2019 • 1h 11m

M. D. Foster and J. A. Tolbert, "The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World" (Utah State UP, 2015)

Jul 2, 2019 • 52m

Christopher Rea, "China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Jul 1, 2019 • 40m

Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World" (U Arkansas Press, 2019))

Jun 26, 2019 • 47m

Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

Jun 26, 2019 • 1h 4m

Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties" (UNC Press, 2015)

Jun 26, 2019 • 1h 18m

Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison" (SABR, 2019)

Jun 25, 2019 • 1h 12m

Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, "Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture" (Amethyst Editions, 2019)

Jun 25, 2019 • 54m

Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Jun 25, 2019 • 1h 58m

Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

Jun 24, 2019 • 46m

Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jun 21, 2019 • 1h 7m

Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)

Jun 19, 2019 • 1h 27m

Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Jun 18, 2019 • 59m

Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (U California Press, 2018)

Jun 18, 2019 • 1h 7m

Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties" (U Missouri Press, 2019)

Jun 14, 2019 • 52m

E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Jun 13, 2019 • 1h 1m

Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)

Jun 11, 2019 • 1h 7m

Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2017)

Jun 11, 2019 • 1h 2m

Jennifer Helgren, "American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War" (Rutgers UP, 2017)

Jun 4, 2019 • 1h 2m

John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)

May 30, 2019 • 44m

Mark D. White, "Batman and Ethics" (Wiley Blackwell, 2019)

May 24, 2019 • 47m

Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)

May 21, 2019 • 56m

Jerry T. Watkins III, "Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism" (UP of Florida, 2018)

May 21, 2019 • 54m

Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

May 13, 2019 • 1h 15m

Nicholas Baer et al. "Unwatchable" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

May 9, 2019 • 1h 1m

Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, "Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection" (Indiana UP, 2018)

May 7, 2019 • 58m

Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)

Apr 29, 2019 • 50m

Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914" (Wayne State UP, 2018)

Apr 25, 2019 • 38m

Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Apr 16, 2019 • 52m

Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in North America" (U Illinois Press, 2017)

Apr 3, 2019 • 58m

Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)

Apr 3, 2019 • 45m

Ron Keurajian, "Baseball Hall of Fame Autographs: A Reference Guide" (McFarland, 2018)

Mar 26, 2019 • 44m

Michael Mario Albrecht, "Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television" (Routledge, 2015)

Mar 26, 2019 • 58m

Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

Mar 19, 2019 • 32m

Claire Pamment, "Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Mar 15, 2019 • 54m

Suk-Young Kim, "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance" (Stanford UP, 2018)

Mar 13, 2019 • 55m

Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mar 13, 2019 • 50m

Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Mar 8, 2019 • 24m

Jeffrey D. Long, "Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific" (MDPI Books, 2019)

Mar 4, 2019 • 1h 13m

Alexander Langlands, "Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts" (Norton, 2017)

Mar 4, 2019 • 57m

Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data" (Routledge, 2018)

Feb 28, 2019 • 37m

Bernadete Barton, "Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers" (NYU Press, 2017)

Feb 28, 2019 • 58m

Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Feb 27, 2019 • 1h 1m

Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema" (U Texas, 2018)

Feb 20, 2019 • 55m

W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Feb 12, 2019 • 57m

Nathan Holmes, "Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination" (SUNY Press, 2018)

Feb 11, 2019 • 24m

Peter Hopsicker and Mark Dyreson, "A Half Century of Super Bowls: National and Global Perspectives on America's Grandest Spectacle" (Routledge, 2018)

Jan 31, 2019 • 39m

David J. Puglia, "Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore 'Hon': The Folk in the City" (Lexington Books, 2018)

Jan 31, 2019 • 1h 1m

Katie Beswick, "Social Housing In Performance: The English Council Estate On and Off Stage" (Methuen Drama, 2018)

Jan 22, 2019 • 42m

Tim Mohr, "Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Algonquin Books, 2018)

Jan 17, 2019 • 1h 4m

Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash" (UP of Florida, 2016)

Jan 7, 2019 • 1h 6m

Films that feature war as a theme have been made almost since the beginning of the industry...

Dec 31, 2018 • 59m

Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000" (Intellect, 2017)

Dec 28, 2018 • 1h 5m

Katherine K. Preston, "Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Dec 21, 2018 • 1h 2m

You eat what you are and are what you eat, right?

Dec 20, 2018 • 53m

Victoria Cann, "Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures" (I.B.Tauris, 2018)

Dec 18, 2018 • 41m

Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Dec 18, 2018 • 56m

Patrick B. Mullen, "Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Dec 14, 2018 • 53m

Sarah Banet-Weiser, "Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny" (Duke UP, 2018)

Dec 10, 2018 • 40m

McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 4m

Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian and Tully Barnett, "What Matters?: Talking Value in Australian Culture" (Monash UP, 2018)

Dec 6, 2018 • 34m

John C. Hajduk, "Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960" (Lexington Books, 2018)

Dec 3, 2018 • 1h 3m

David Charles Sloane, "Is the Cemetery Dead?" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

Nov 28, 2018 • 43m

Jack David Eller, “Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo” (Reaktion Books, 2018)

Nov 19, 2018 • 47m

Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women” (Mango Publishing Group, 2018)

Nov 16, 2018 • 1h 1m

Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television” (Reaktion Press, 2017)

Nov 8, 2018 • 38m

Cairns Craig, “The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence” (Edinburgh UP, 2018)

Nov 8, 2018 • 1h 9m

R. C. Romano and C. B. Potter, “Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past” (Rutgers UP,

Nov 7, 2018 • 1h 6m

Raymond Boyle, “The Talent Industry: Television, Cultural Intermediaries and New Digital Pathways” (Palgrave, 2018)

Nov 6, 2018 • 40m

Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)

Oct 31, 2018 • 1h 16m

Anthony Slide, “Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)

Oct 30, 2018 • 47m

James S. Bielo, “Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park” (NYU Press, 2018)

Oct 24, 2018 • 1h 21m

Melissa Terras, “Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Oct 23, 2018 • 32m

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, “Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy” (U California Press, 2017)

Oct 19, 2018 • 1h 6m

Jeffrey Kahan, “Shakespeare and Superheroes” (ARC Humanities Press, 2018)

Oct 18, 2018 • 1h 4m

Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, “The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Oct 12, 2018 • 1h 15m

Tim Jelfs, “The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism” (West Virginia UP, 2018)

Oct 12, 2018 • 1h 4m

Deborah Jaramillo, “The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry” (U Texas Press, 2018)

Oct 9, 2018 • 51m

Jonathan Waterlow, “It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life Under Stalin (1928-1941)” (CreateSpace, 2018)

Oct 4, 2018 • 1h 3m

Joel R. Pruce, “The Mass Appeal of Human Rights” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Oct 3, 2018 • 38m

Stephen Lee Naish, “Riffs & Meaning: Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy” (Headpress, 2018)

Sep 11, 2018 • 54m

Tessa Fontaine, “The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts” (FSG, 2018)

Aug 27, 2018 • 48m

Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of ‘Thelma & Louise’ Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin, 2018)

Aug 23, 2018 • 52m

James P. Leary, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946” (U Wisconsin Press, 2015)

Aug 22, 2018 • 54m

Jo Weldon, “Fierce: The History of Leopard Print” (Harper Design, 2018)

Jul 31, 2018 • 46m

Megan Condis, “Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Battle for Online Culture” (U Iowa Press, 2018)

Jul 25, 2018 • 1h 12m

Ben Blackwell, “The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color” (Third Man Books, 2017)

Jul 25, 2018 • 1h 3m

Richard Ivan Jobs, “Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Jul 24, 2018 • 58m

madison moore, “Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric” (Yale UP, 2018)

Jul 23, 2018 • 1h 2m

Martin Shuster, “New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Jul 19, 2018 • 54m

Chris Nashawaty, “Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story” (Flatiron Books, 2018)

Jul 18, 2018 • 55m

Adrienne Rose Bitar, “Diet and the Disease of Civilization” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Jul 17, 2018 • 55m

Phil Proctor and Brad Shreiber, “Where’s my Fortune Cookie?” (Blurb, 2017)

Jul 13, 2018 • 43m

Rebekah J. Buchanan, “Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics” (Peter Lang, 2018)

Jul 9, 2018 • 48m

Gary Bruce, “Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jul 9, 2018 • 59m

M. L. Liebler, “Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond” (Wayne State UP, 2016)

Jul 6, 2018 • 53m

M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, “History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s” (UNC Press, 2017)

Jul 2, 2018 • 48m

Natalie Robins, “The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling” (Columbia UP, 2017)

Jun 22, 2018 • 53m

Sandra Jean Graham, “Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Jun 12, 2018 • 2m

Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)

Jun 12, 2018 • 47m

James Cook, “Memory Songs: A Personal Journey into the Music that Shaped the 90s” (Unbound, 2018)

Jun 7, 2018 • 46m

Charles Hughes, “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South” (UNC Press, 2015)

Jun 6, 2018 • 49m

Michael Ramirez, “Destined for Greatness: Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

May 18, 2018 • 48m

Peter Hoar, “The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940” (Otago University Press, 2018)

May 18, 2018 • 17m

Gillian M. Rodger, “Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

May 16, 2018 • 1h 7m

Discussion with Dahlia Schweitzer (“Going Viral”) and Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”)

May 15, 2018 • 1h 5m

Sophia Rose Arjana, “Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture” (Lexington Books, 2017)

May 14, 2018 • 44m

Gregory Snyder, “Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding” (NYU Press, 2017)

May 14, 2018 • 1h 2m

Jesse Berrett, “Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

May 9, 2018 • 2m

Mark A. McCutcheon, “The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology” (Athabasca UP, 2018)

May 3, 2018 • 1h 18m

Emilie Lucchesi, “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz-Age Chicago” (Chicago Review, 2017)

May 2, 2018 • 1h 2m

Mark Liechty, “Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal” (U of Chicago Press, 2017)

May 1, 2018 • 1h 3m

Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)

Apr 27, 2018 • 1h 10m

Bhoomi Thakore, “South Asians on the U.S. Screen: Just Like Everyone Else?” (Lexington Books, 2018)

Apr 26, 2018 • 38m

John Gennari, “Flavor and Soul: Italian America and Its African American Edge” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Apr 25, 2018 • 1h 3m

Imani Perry, “May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem” (UNC Press, 2018)

Apr 23, 2018 • 1h 2m

Mehal Krayem, “Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama” (Melbourne UP, 2017)

Apr 20, 2018 • 20m

Joseph Esposito, “Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House” (ForeEdge, 2018)

Apr 11, 2018 • 46m

Carolyn Day, “Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease” (Bloomsbury, 2017)

Apr 10, 2018 • 52m

Anamik Saha, “Race and the Cultural Industries” (Polity, 2018)

Apr 9, 2018 • 48m

Dahlia Schweitzer, “Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Mar 29, 2018 • 1h 5m

Alex Wade, “Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Mar 23, 2018 • 50m

Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)

Mar 9, 2018 • 58m

David Weinstein, “The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics” (Brandeis UP, 2017)

Mar 5, 2018 • 1h 1m

Andrew Friedman, “Chefs, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Ecco Press, 2018)

Mar 5, 2018 • 1h 6m

Jon Kraszewski, “Reality TV” (Routledge, 2017)

Mar 1, 2018 • 54m

Jennifer Frost, “Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism and the Cold War” (UP of Kansas, 2017)

Feb 21, 2018 • 1h 8m

Christopher Grobe, “The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV” (NYU Press, 2017)

Feb 16, 2018 • 1h 10m

Clinton Walker, “Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women and Australian Music” (NewSouth Books, 2018)

Feb 16, 2018 • 16m

Douglas W. Shadle, “Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Feb 13, 2018 • 1h 1m

Carla M. Wilson, “Curious Impossibilities: Ten Cinematic Riffs” (Black Scat Books, 2017)

Feb 12, 2018 • 58m

Kevin Patrick, “The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero” (U Iowa Press, 2017)

Feb 2, 2018 • 1h 7m

Zach Sands, “Film Comedy and the American Dream” (Routledge, 2017)

Jan 25, 2018 • 31m

Benjamin Teitelbaum, “Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jan 24, 2018 • 48m

Franz Rickaby, et al., “Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)

Jan 10, 2018 • 1h 4m

Andrew McKevitt, “Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America” (UNC Press, 2017)

Jan 8, 2018 • 42m

Elizabeth Bucar, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress” (Harvard UP, 2017)

Dec 25, 2017 • 1h 1m

Paul Hensler, “The New Boys of Summer: Baseball’s Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Dec 21, 2017 • 1h 1m

Alfie Bown, “The Playstation Dreamworld” (Polity, 2017)

Dec 20, 2017 • 43m

Jonathan W. White, “Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War” (UNC Press, 2017)

Dec 15, 2017 • 59m

Brett L. Abrams, “Terry Bradshaw: From Super Bowl Champion to Television Personality” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Dec 15, 2017 • 47m

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, “Personal Stereo” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

Dec 12, 2017 • 35m

Bob Batchelor, “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Dec 12, 2017 • 1h 11m

Mark Fleischman, “Inside Studio 54” (Rare Bird Books, 2017)

Dec 8, 2017 • 53m

Kinneret Lahad, “A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time” (Manchester UP, 2017)

Dec 5, 2017 • 53m

Jenny Natasha and Tom Boniface-Webb, “I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop” (Valley Press, 2017)

Nov 30, 2017 • 1h 1m

Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)

Nov 27, 2017 • 1h 4m

Richard Power Sayeed, “1997: The Future that Never Happened (Zed Books, 2017)

Nov 25, 2017 • 59m

Ian Brodie, “A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy” (UP of Mississippi, 2014).

Nov 20, 2017 • 50m

Kathryn Lofton, “Consuming Religion” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

Nov 20, 2017 • 1h 1m

Mary Tomsic, “Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia, 1920-1990” (Melbourne UP, 2017)

Nov 17, 2017 • 17m

Adam J. Criblez, “Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Nov 16, 2017 • 36m

Jessica M. Fishman, “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead” (NYU Press, 2017)

Nov 14, 2017 • 40m

Matthew S. Rindge, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream” (Baylor UP, 2016)

Nov 10, 2017 • 43m

Daniel Kane, “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City” (Columbia UP, 2017)

Nov 2, 2017 • 32m

Joel Dinerstein, “The Origins of Cool in Postwar America” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

Oct 31, 2017 • 1h 9m

Julia Fawcett, “Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)

Oct 9, 2017 • 35m

Deborah Parker and Mark L. Parker, “Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy” (U. of Virginia Press, 2017)

Oct 3, 2017 • 41m

Linda Simon, “Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper” (Reaktion Books, 2017)

Oct 2, 2017 • 41m

Deanne Stillman, “Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill” (Simon & Schuster, 2017)

Sep 25, 2017 • 44m

Stephen Pimpare, “Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Sep 25, 2017 • 1h 2m

Shaun Scott, “Millennials and the Moments that Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present” (Zero Books, 2018)

Sep 18, 2017 • 1h 0m

Noel Brown, “The Children’s Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative” (Wallflower Press, 2017)

Aug 19, 2017 • 25m

Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, “Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting an Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror” (Lexington Books, 2010)

Aug 16, 2017 • 58m

Patty Farmer, “Starring the Plaza: Hollywood, Broadway, and High Society Visit the World’s Favorite Hotel” (Beaufort Books, 2017)

Aug 14, 2017 • 49m

Fiona Helmsley, “Girls Gone Old” (We Heard You Like Books, 2017)

Aug 12, 2017 • 1h 4m

Tanya Ann Kennedy, “Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture” (SUNY Press, 2017)

Aug 6, 2017 • 1h 13m

Don Nunley with Marshall Terrill, “Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror” (Dalton Watson, 2017)

Aug 2, 2017 • 51m

Sophie Egan, “Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are” (William Morrow, 2017)

Jul 24, 2017 • 54m

Ira Dworkin, “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State” (UNC Press, 2017)

Jul 20, 2017 • 57m

Patty Farmer, “Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy” (Beaufort Books, 2017)

Jul 16, 2017 • 53m

Franz Nicolay, “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar” (The New Press, 2016)

Jul 12, 2017 • 44m

David Kushner, “Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D” (Nation Books, 2017)

Jun 23, 2017 • 23m

Danny Goldberg, “In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea” (Akashic Books, 2017)

Jun 23, 2017 • 1h 10m

William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)

Jun 20, 2017 • 1h 13m

Michael Witwer, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Jun 19, 2017 • 59m

Andre Sirois, “Hip-Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization” (Peter Lang, 2016)

Jun 13, 2017 • 4m

Paul Youngquist, “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism” (U. Texas Press, 2016)

May 27, 2017 • 53m

David M. Ewalt, “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and The People Who Play It” (Scribner, 2013)

May 26, 2017 • 45m

Stanley Corkin, “Connecting the Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore” (U. Texas Press, 2017)

May 16, 2017 • 54m

Stephen Lee Naish, “Deconstructing Dirty Dancing” (Zero Books, 2017)

May 16, 2017 • 1h 5m

Jennifer Le Zotte, “From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies” (UNC Press, 2017)

May 15, 2017 • 59m

Kate Daloz, “We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on a Quest for a New America” (PublicAffairs, 2016)

May 14, 2017 • 54m

Maya Barzilai, “Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters” (NYU Press, 2016)

May 1, 2017 • 29m

Kathleen Collins, “Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

Apr 22, 2017 • 53m

James A. Cosby, “Devil’s Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll” (McFarland, 2016)

Apr 18, 2017 • 26m

Anna Harwell Celenza, “Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Apr 10, 2017 • 55m

Mia Mask, “Divas on the Screen: Black Women in American Film” (U. of Illinois Press, 2009)

Mar 29, 2017 • 21m

Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McFarland, 2015)

Mar 29, 2017 • 44m

Karl Baden, “The Americans by Car” (Retroactive Press, 2016)

Mar 25, 2017 • 1h 15m

Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)

Mar 21, 2017 • 54m

Christopher Pizzino, “Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature” (U of Texas Press, 2016)

Mar 19, 2017 • 32m

Gleb Tsipursky, “Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

Mar 14, 2017 • 56m

Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)

Mar 14, 2017 • 38m

Mark Braude, “Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)

Mar 9, 2017 • 1h 2m

Damion Searls, “The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing” (Crown, 2017)

Mar 7, 2017 • 56m

Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)

Mar 3, 2017 • 1h 6m

Mick Broderick, “Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Nightmare Comedy'” (WallFlower Press, 2016)

Mar 2, 2017 • 4m

Sherilyn Connelly, “Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016” (McFarland, 2017)

Feb 23, 2017 • 1h 1m

Bob Moss, “Vibes from the Screen: Getting Greater Enjoyment from Films” (MCP Books, 2016)

Feb 21, 2017 • 1h 3m

Melissa Hidalgo, “Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands” (Headpress, 2016)

Feb 13, 2017 • 1h 18m

Richard Etulain, “The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2014)

Feb 6, 2017 • 58m

Mitchel Roth, “Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo” (U. North Texas Press, 2016)

Feb 1, 2017 • 3m

James A. Davidson, “Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude” (McFarland, 2016)

Jan 24, 2017 • 1h 9m

Anthony Lioi, “Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)

Jan 20, 2017 • 1h 7m

Kevin Smokler, “Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies” (Rare Bird Books, 2016)

Jan 18, 2017 • 59m

Helen Rappaport, “Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen” (Harper Design, 2017)

Jan 10, 2017 • 57m

Ben Westhhoff, “Original Gangtas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap” (Hachette, 2016)

Jan 9, 2017 • 46m

Carroll Pursell, “From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)

Dec 29, 2016 • 50m

Matt Houlbrook, “Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook” (U. of Chicago Press 2016)

Dec 19, 2016 • 42m

Gail Ashton, ed. “Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015/2017)

Dec 14, 2016 • 33m

Brian Eugenio Herrera, “Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance” (U. Michigan Press, 2015)

Dec 10, 2016 • 58m

Scott Bruce, ed., “The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters” (Penguin, 2016)

Nov 28, 2016 • 38m

Leon Wildes, “John Lennon vs The U.S.A.: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History” (Ankerwycke, 2016)

Nov 21, 2016 • 17m

Kirsty Sedgman, “Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales” (Intellect Books 2016)

Nov 19, 2016 • 41m

Claudia Kalb, “Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Mind of History’s Great Personalities” (Natl Geographic, 2016)

Oct 27, 2016 • 57m

Jonathan Lethem, “A Gambler’s Anatomy” (Doubleday, 2016)

Oct 21, 2016 • 1h 11m

Jack Hamilton, “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2016)

Oct 11, 2016 • 1h 2m

Alisa Solomon, “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof” (Metropolitan, 2013)

Oct 3, 2016 • 46m

David Ensminger, “The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

Sep 30, 2016 • 57m

Sali Tagliamonte, “Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Sep 26, 2016 • 57m

Jade Doskow, “Lost Utopias” (Black Dog Publishing, 2016)

Sep 21, 2016 • 56m

Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph, “A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies ” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)

Sep 19, 2016 • 1h 6m

David M. Krueger, “Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2015)

Sep 13, 2016 • 1h 4m

Andrew Schulman, “Waking the Spirit: A Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul (Picador 2016)

Sep 8, 2016 • 49m

Robert K. Elder, et. al. “Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park” (Kent State UP, 2016)

Aug 29, 2016 • 59m

Jean Chalaby, “The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution” (Polity, 2015)

Aug 29, 2016 • 41m

John Jodzio, “Knock Out” (Soft Skull Press, 2016)

Aug 27, 2016 • 53m

Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)

Aug 24, 2016 • 1h 4m

Jennifier Keishin Armstrong, “Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)

Aug 13, 2016 • 54m

Michelle Cruz Gonzales, “The Spitboy Rule: Tales of Xicana in a Female Punk Band” (PM Press, 2016)

Aug 12, 2016 • 51m

Sue Matheson, “The Westerns and War Films of John Ford” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

Jul 21, 2016 • 58m

Bert Ashe, “Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles” (Agate Bolden, 2015)

Jun 23, 2016 • 42m

Ed Berlin, “King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Jun 15, 2016 • 1h 2m

John Brian King, “Nude Reagan” (Spurl Editions, 2016)

Jun 13, 2016 • 47m

Yago Colas, “Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball” (Temple University Press, 2016)

Jun 8, 2016 • 56m

Cass Sunstein, “The World According to Star Wars” (Harper Collins, 2016)

May 28, 2016 • 34m

Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015)

May 23, 2016 • 55m

Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”

May 20, 2016 • 48m

Joshua Braun, “This Program is Brought to You By . . . Distributing Television Online” (Yale UP, 2015)

May 7, 2016 • 1h 3m

Brian James DeMare, “Mao’s Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in Chinas Rural Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

May 2, 2016 • 1h 1m

Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War” (U of Massachusetts Press, 2015)

Apr 30, 2016 • 42m

Roger Horowitz, “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Apr 21, 2016 • 32m

Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016)

Apr 19, 2016 • 1h 11m

Jason Mittell, “Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television” (NYU Press 2015)

Apr 18, 2016 • 1h 6m

Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)

Apr 18, 2016 • 31m

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