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Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 20 • 1h 19m
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Jun 11 • 56m
Alison Griffiths, "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Jun 11 • 1h 6m
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Jun 3 • 25m
Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 31 • 47m
Heist
May 28 • 22m
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 24 • 1h 26m
Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 23 • 50m
Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 22 • 51m
Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
May 21 • 1h 11m
From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
May 19 • 54m
The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order
May 18 • 58m
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
May 15 • 57m
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline
May 13 • 1h 10m
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
May 13 • 1h 9m
The Fisher King
May 12 • 27m
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 11 • 58m
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
May 9 • 1h 9m
Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
May 5 • 42m
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information
May 4 • 55m
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 3 • 44m
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
May 2 • 1h 4m
Peeping Tom
Apr 28 • 35m
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political
Apr 26 • 51m
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
Apr 25 • 1h 12m
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Apr 23 • 48m
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 22 • 52m
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
Apr 21 • 1h 0m
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Apr 20 • 59m
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 19 • 1h 16m
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 11 • 1h 9m
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
The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana
Mar 26 • 50m
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 25 • 1h 4m
Woman in the Dunes
Mar 24 • 33m
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Mar 24 • 37m
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Mar 14 • 1h 8m
Hye Seung Chung, "Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Mar 12 • 49m
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Mar 10 • 33m
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 7 • 46m
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 7 • 1h 18m
Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
Mar 6 • 57m
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
Mar 5 • 1h 11m
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Mar 4 • 56m
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Mar 4 • 46m
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Mar 3 • 33m
Esha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Mar 1 • 1h 16m
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
Feb 25 • 46m
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Feb 25 • 1h 18m
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Feb 24 • 32m
In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
Feb 22 • 1h 16m
Failed Passing
Feb 12 • 19m
American Made
Feb 10 • 30m
Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Feb 9 • 1h 27m
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 8 • 1h 52m
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 7 • 1h 24m
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Feb 6 • 1h 5m
Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 5 • 59m
James Fenwick, "Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
Feb 1 • 36m
A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
Jan 28 • 1h 24m
The Rainmaker
Jan 27 • 36m
What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
Jan 11 • 1h 11m
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Jan 10 • 1h 11m
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 36m
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 9m
The Big Heat
Dec 23, 2024 • 30m
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
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 • 1h 56m
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 8, 2024 • 54m
Scott Anthony, "The Story of British Propaganda Film" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dec 7, 2024 • 53m
Biopic
Dec 1, 2024 • 18m
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 • 56m
Chris Berry et al., "Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 • 45m
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024 • 58m
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Nov 21, 2024 • 46m
A Serious Man
Nov 17, 2024 • 39m
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 1h 8m
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 38m
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 14, 2024 • 1h 5m
Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Nov 14, 2024 • 29m
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
Nov 12, 2024 • 1h 23m
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 12, 2024 • 58m
True Believer
Nov 11, 2024 • 27m
Daniela Berghahn, "Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Nov 9, 2024 • 40m
Blow Out
Nov 4, 2024 • 26m
The Fly
Oct 28, 2024 • 25m
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2024 • 1h 4m
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 20, 2024 • 39m
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 8m
Out of Sight
Oct 14, 2024 • 23m
Slavery and Film, Creativity and Academia, and Is Slavery a Good Metaphor for AI?
Oct 12, 2024 • 48m
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
Kramer vs. Kramer
Oct 7, 2024 • 25m
Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, "Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Oct 7, 2024 • 51m
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 3, 2024 • 1h 8m
As Good as It Gets
Sep 30, 2024 • 29m
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 10m
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 15m
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024 • 59m
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
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2024 • 1h 6m
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 0m
Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024 • 1h 4m
L. A. Confidential
Sep 9, 2024 • 30m
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 3, 2024 • 54m
For a Few Dollars More
Sep 2, 2024 • 30m
Christopher Brown, "Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Aug 27, 2024 • 1h 21m
To Have and Have Not
Aug 26, 2024 • 20m
The Sounds of Silents
Aug 19, 2024 • 47m
Thief
Aug 19, 2024 • 24m
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
Training Day
Aug 12, 2024 • 29m
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 12, 2024 • 1h 3m
Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 8m
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 0m
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 3, 2024 • 1h 10m
Collateral
Jul 29, 2024 • 31m
Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 7m
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024 • 58m
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 16m
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 0m
40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 15m
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 2m
The Graduate
Jul 22, 2024 • 29m
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
Jul 19, 2024 • 50m
Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 16m
Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2024 • 57m
Auto Focus
Jul 15, 2024 • 28m
Pamela Hutchinson, "The Red Shoes" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 14, 2024 • 51m
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jul 13, 2024 • 47m
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024 • 49m
William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 21m
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 • 1h 7m
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jul 2, 2024 • 59m
Forbidden Planet
Jul 1, 2024 • 26m
Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024 • 52m
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
Kim Nelson, "Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 27m
After Hours
Jun 24, 2024 • 22m
Slava Greenberg, "Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 0m
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024 • 48m
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, "Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jun 17, 2024 • 1h 3m
Bringing Out the Dead
Jun 17, 2024 • 23m
On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”
Jun 14, 2024 • 59m
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 4m
Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Jun 4, 2024 • 52m
American Movie
Jun 3, 2024 • 25m
Robert Phillip Kolker and Marsha Gordon, "Film, Form, and Culture" (Routledge, 2024)
May 30, 2024 • 58m
First Reformed
May 13, 2024 • 33m
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
Hobson’s Choice
May 6, 2024 • 31m
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
May 4, 2024 • 53m
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 4, 2024 • 54m
Kristi Irene McKim, "Rushmore" (British Film Institute, 2023)
May 3, 2024 • 1h 23m
Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)
May 3, 2024 • 1h 9m
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
May 2, 2024 • 46m
We Own the Night
Apr 29, 2024 • 21m
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024 • 48m
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 6m
Cat People
Apr 22, 2024 • 24m
Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 19, 2024 • 1h 1m
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024 • 36m
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024 • 35m
The Ladykillers
Apr 15, 2024 • 17m
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
Apr 14, 2024 • 30m
Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 10m
Pan’s Labyrinth
Apr 8, 2024 • 21m
Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Apr 5, 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
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 21m
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2024 • 59m
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mar 25, 2024 • 29m
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024 • 48m
Defending Your Life
Mar 18, 2024 • 23m
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
Mar 17, 2024 • 48m
Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024 • 48m
Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 0m
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 41m
Magic
Mar 11, 2024 • 26m
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
Mar 8, 2024 • 47m
Baby Face
Mar 4, 2024 • 17m
Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Mar 3, 2024 • 49m
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 3, 2024 • 56m
Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 1h 31m
Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 1m
Conan the Barbarian
Feb 26, 2024 • 29m
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Feb 19, 2024 • 24m
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 14, 2024 • 57m
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Feb 14, 2024 • 52m
The Hunting Trilogy
Feb 12, 2024 • 21m
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 6, 2024 • 1h 34m
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Feb 6, 2024 • 57m
Limelight
Feb 5, 2024 • 29m
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 4, 2024 • 56m
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024 • 1h 6m
Anatomy of a Fall
Jan 29, 2024 • 33m
Ridley Scott's "Napoleon": A Historian's Review
Jan 28, 2024 • 22m
Bliss Cua Lim, "The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jan 24, 2024 • 57m
My Best Fiend
Jan 22, 2024 • 27m
"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson (with Jonathon Fessenden)
Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 4m
Eyes Wide Shut
Jan 15, 2024 • 38m
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024 • 59m
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2024 • 1h 7m
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 3m
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 3m
The Omen
Jan 8, 2024 • 28m
Plot
Jan 4, 2024 • 18m
Meet John Doe
Jan 1, 2024 • 31m
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Dec 28, 2023 • 59m
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m
The Sting
Dec 25, 2023 • 21m
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 1h 19m
Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 1h 7m
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
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Dec 22, 2023 • 33m
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023 • 51m
Donnie Darko
Dec 18, 2023 • 31m
Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023 • 49m
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023 • 37m
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
Dec 11, 2023 • 34m
This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 28m
Wild Strawberries
Dec 4, 2023 • 33m
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 2, 2023 • 1h 20m
I Know Where I’m Going!
Nov 27, 2023 • 21m
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 45m
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023 • 56m
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023 • 38m
Spirited Away
Nov 21, 2023 • 21m
Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 4m
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Nov 15, 2023 • 57m
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 22m
Minority Report
Nov 13, 2023 • 22m
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 1h 21m
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
Point Blank
Nov 6, 2023 • 39m
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 7m
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 55m
Babette’s Feast
Oct 30, 2023 • 23m
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 9m
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023 • 46m
Big Night
Oct 23, 2023 • 21m
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 55m
Cutter’s Way
Oct 16, 2023 • 25m
Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023 • 1h 5m
Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 12m
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Oct 11, 2023 • 42m
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023 • 59m
Lost in America
Oct 9, 2023 • 21m
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 7, 2023 • 52m
The Vanishing
Oct 2, 2023 • 24m
Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 1, 2023 • 38m
Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023 • 59m
Rope
Sep 25, 2023 • 21m
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023 • 48m
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023 • 52m
Sorcerer
Sep 19, 2023 • 30m
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
The Blues Brothers
Sep 11, 2023 • 18m
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sep 11, 2023 • 1h 10m
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 9, 2023 • 33m
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 7m
Caveh Zahedi, "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi" (Factory 25, 2015)
Sep 6, 2023 • 27m
The Wages of Fear
Sep 4, 2023 • 27m
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 4m
Beth Tsai, "Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023 • 58m
In a Lonely Place
Aug 28, 2023 • 21m
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 48m
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023 • 56m
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
Aug 23, 2023 • 1h 2m
The French Connection
Aug 21, 2023 • 21m
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 12m
California Split
Aug 14, 2023 • 26m
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 9, 2023 • 51m
Raging Bull
Aug 7, 2023 • 34m
The Fourth Wise Man (with Jonathon Fessenden)
Aug 4, 2023 • 53m
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Aug 3, 2023 • 18m
Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 2, 2023 • 59m
The Great Dictator
Jul 31, 2023 • 23m
Film Chat: Hsin-Chien Huang on VR Film in Taiwan
Jul 30, 2023 • 36m
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023 • 55m
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
Jul 24, 2023 • 19m
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
Jul 20, 2023 • 14m
Bombay Talkies
Jul 20, 2023 • 19m
Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 26m
Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 24m
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023 • 47m
The Matrix
Jul 17, 2023 • 22m
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 8, 2023 • 46m
Ball of Fire
Jul 7, 2023 • 19m
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 6, 2023 • 37m
Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 33m
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
Mulholland Drive
Jul 3, 2023 • 25m
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 2, 2023 • 1h 5m
Stella Dallas
Jun 26, 2023 • 20m
Sunset Blvd
Jun 19, 2023 • 22m
Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Alvaro Santana-Acuña, "Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023 • 1h 3m
Elephant Man
Jun 6, 2023 • 21m
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 5, 2023 • 34m
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jun 4, 2023 • 45m
Black Film, British Cinema II
May 25, 2023 • 41m
Brad Krumholz, "Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 24, 2023 • 48m
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
May 22, 2023 • 58m
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
May 17, 2023 • 42m
Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, "Secret Cinema and the Immersive Experience Industry" (Manchester UP, 2022)
May 13, 2023 • 49m
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
May 12, 2023 • 1h 4m
Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)
May 9, 2023 • 45m
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
May 2, 2023 • 1h 35m
Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Apr 20, 2023 • 47m
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 20, 2023 • 52m
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
Cinegogía: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
Apr 14, 2023 • 57m
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
Apr 13, 2023 • 1h 1m
John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023 • 56m
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 7, 2023 • 45m
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 4, 2023 • 1h 14m
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 17m
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 52m
Suzanne Ferriss, "Lost in Translation" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023 • 46m
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023 • 1h 1m
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
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
Mar 19, 2023 • 1h 9m
Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu
Mar 14, 2023 • 29m
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 6m
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
Mar 13, 2023 • 38m
Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023 • 47m
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023 • 1h 12m
Film Chat: Queer, Sci-Fi and the Family
Mar 11, 2023 • 38m
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Mar 10, 2023 • 56m
Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 3m
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
Mar 8, 2023 • 55m
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
Mar 7, 2023 • 16m
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
Mar 6, 2023 • 32m
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies
Mar 5, 2023 • 16m
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
Mar 4, 2023 • 45m
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
Feb 27, 2023 • 29m
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023 • 49m
Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023 • 51m
Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023 • 54m
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023 • 48m
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 55m
Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 0m
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
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 5m
Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton
Feb 2, 2023 • 43m
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
Jan 29, 2023 • 1h 3m
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 2m
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Jan 13, 2023 • 55m
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
Jan 12, 2023 • 34m
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 1)
Jan 11, 2023 • 40m
The Fremen in "Dune"
Jan 10, 2023 • 53m
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
Jan 9, 2023 • 54m
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 1m
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
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
Jan 3, 2023 • 42m
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
Jan 1, 2023 • 29m
Catholic Movies, Part 1: "Silence" and "The Scarlet and the Black"
Dec 30, 2022 • 1h 3m
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec 28, 2022 • 34m
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Dec 25, 2022 • 27m
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022 • 52m
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
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 28m
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 17m
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 57m
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 52m
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 5m
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
Dec 4, 2022 • 51m
Craig Oldham, "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting" (Rough Trade Books, 2022)
Dec 3, 2022 • 53m
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 56m
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
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 2m
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 9m
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
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 9m
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
Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 35m
Shaken and Stirred
Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 3m
Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022 • 58m
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 26, 2022 • 55m
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
Shall We Play A Game?
Oct 26, 2022 • 51m
Larry Ceplair, "The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 58m
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 4m
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 12m
Wolverines!
Oct 19, 2022 • 56m
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 2m
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
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 1m
Bonus Episode: A Conversation about Past Episodes and Current Events
Oct 12, 2022 • 36m
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 4m
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)
Oct 7, 2022 • 53m
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 8m
The Two Russias
Oct 5, 2022 • 54m
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 17m
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 6m
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 4m
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
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 3m
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence" (Duke UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 12m
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 0m
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 13m
A MAD, MAD, World
Sep 14, 2022 • 58m
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 36m
Who Can You Trust?
Sep 7, 2022 • 56m
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
Sep 1, 2022 • 46m
Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 23m
He May Be a Communist!
Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 0m
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
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 10m
Reality TV
Aug 23, 2022 • 16m
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
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022 • 56m
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 8, 2022 • 1h 13m
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
Aug 4, 2022 • 42m
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022 • 1h 24m
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022 • 33m
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022 • 43m
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Dey Street, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 6m
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
Squid Game
Jul 6, 2022 • 13m
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 5m
Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jul 1, 2022 • 56m
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 22m
Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 21, 2022 • 53m
Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022 • 50m
Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022 • 1h 13m
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
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
Jun 7, 2022 • 1h 7m
Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jun 7, 2022 • 1h 5m
Ryan Watson, "Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jun 6, 2022 • 56m
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
Jun 6, 2022 • 42m
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 6, 2022 • 56m
Daniel Fairfax, "The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 19m
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
Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 10m
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 13, 2022 • 3h 19m
Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 10, 2022 • 1h 10m
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 4, 2022 • 1h 5m
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 17m
Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
Apr 27, 2022 • 56m
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2022 • 57m
Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Apr 8, 2022 • 53m
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 6, 2022 • 50m
Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 4, 2022 • 1h 1m
Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 30, 2022 • 57m
Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022 • 37m
Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 14m
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 28m
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022 • 53m
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022 • 50m
Nadir Lahiji, "Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022 • 28m
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
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 8, 2022 • 1h 22m
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Mar 3, 2022 • 41m
David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022 • 50m
Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022 • 56m
Kathryn Millard, "Double Exposure: How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2022 • 1h 2m
Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 0m
James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 11m
Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
Feb 8, 2022 • 56m
Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, "Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 2m
Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 2, 2022 • 52m
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 33m
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Feb 1, 2022 • 47m
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 13m
Henry K. Miller, "The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 25, 2022 • 1h 8m
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
Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 18, 2022 • 36m
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
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
Jan 13, 2022 • 1h 1m
Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jan 7, 2022 • 1h 14m
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jan 5, 2022 • 2h 10m
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Dec 31, 2021 • 1h 6m
Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
Dec 30, 2021 • 59m
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 27, 2021 • 1h 52m
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
Matthew H. Brown, "Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 1h 42m
Kate Fortmueller, "Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 8m
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
Caetlin Benson-Allott, "The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 6, 2021 • 56m
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 1, 2021 • 49m
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Nov 30, 2021 • 1h 6m
Raymond C. Kuo, "Following the Leader: Alliance Design, Security Strategies, and Institutional Emulation" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021 • 54m
Kate Fortmueller, "Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021 • 1h 13m
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Nov 3, 2021 • 1h 14m
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 29m
Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021 • 59m
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021 • 1h 3m
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
Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, "The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021 • 1h 42m
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021 • 1h 8m
Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Ends of Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Oct 13, 2021 • 1h 15m
Phil Rosenzweig, "Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 8m
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 3m
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 1, 2021 • 1h 8m
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (New Star Books, 2021)
Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 11m
Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
Sep 26, 2021 • 1h 26m
Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts, "Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Sep 24, 2021 • 53m
Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021 • 1h 6m
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
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021 • 1h 28m
Scott Krzych, "Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 16m
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
Ellen Seiter and Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 26m
Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jul 6, 2021 • 1h 21m
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
Jul 5, 2021 • 45m
Carey Purcell, "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 25, 2021 • 55m
Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021 • 52m
Veronika Pehe, "Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 20m
Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 11m
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2021 • 42m
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Jun 17, 2021 • 58m
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jun 3, 2021 • 1h 12m
Exploring the Diasporic Imagination in Recent Indonesian Popular Novels and Films (2000-2020)
Jun 3, 2021 • 22m
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
Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)
May 28, 2021 • 35m
Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
May 21, 2021 • 45m
David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 19, 2021 • 1h 0m
Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
May 13, 2021 • 56m
Wazhmah Osman, "Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
May 12, 2021 • 49m
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
May 6, 2021 • 47m
Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
May 5, 2021 • 52m
Marko Dumancic, "Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
May 5, 2021 • 1h 14m
Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 3, 2021 • 56m
Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
Apr 30, 2021 • 59m
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
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 13m
Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
Apr 12, 2021 • 1h 9m
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Apr 7, 2021 • 1h 16m
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 6, 2021 • 1h 2m
Amanda Ann Klein, "Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 5, 2021 • 57m
James Elkins and Erna Fiorentini, "Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 1, 2021 • 1h 11m
D. A. Miller, "Hidden Hitchcock" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Mar 31, 2021 • 1h 2m
Xiaomei Chen, "Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 10, 2021 • 54m
Frances Galt, "Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries" (Bristol UP, 2020)
Mar 5, 2021 • 43m
Morton Schoolman, "A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
Mar 4, 2021 • 1h 14m
Debashree Mukherjee, "Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021 • 43m
J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film" (Routledge, 2020)
Feb 24, 2021 • 49m
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021 • 48m
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
Feb 22, 2021 • 1h 13m
Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Feb 19, 2021 • 59m
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
Feb 5, 2021 • 53m
Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema" (Palgrave, 2019)
Feb 5, 2021 • 1h 6m
André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
Jan 20, 2021 • 52m
Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021 • 1h 18m
Woojeong Joo, "Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday" (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
Jan 11, 2021 • 1h 5m
Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 8, 2021 • 1h 6m
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)
Jan 6, 2021 • 51m
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020 • 1h 17m
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom" (Routledge, 2018)
Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 12m
Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020 • 1h 0m
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Dec 15, 2020 • 1h 6m
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
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020 • 51m
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020 • 39m
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020 • 49m
Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020 • 55m
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Nov 16, 2020 • 48m
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020 • 1h 6m
Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 7m
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 1m
Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others" (No Place Press, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020 • 45m
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020 • 57m
Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
Oct 5, 2020 • 49m
Glenn Kenny, "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas" (Hanover Square, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 0m
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcock and His Imitators" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 28, 2020 • 1h 9m
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
Sep 25, 2020 • 57m
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Sep 16, 2020 • 1h 14m
Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Sep 15, 2020 • 1h 9m
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020 • 1h 1m
Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-bating, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures" (U Mississippi, 2020)
Aug 28, 2020 • 1h 7m
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 21, 2020 • 1h 8m
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Aug 20, 2020 • 47m
Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style" (Wallflower Press, 2020)
Aug 4, 2020 • 1h 13m
The Joker: How a “Typical Hoodlum” Character of the ‘40s Attained Cult Status Today
Jul 29, 2020 • 25m
Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020 • 1h 7m
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
Jul 24, 2020 • 55m
Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020 • 1h 9m
Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (The New Press, 2020)
Jul 7, 2020 • 1h 2m
Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jul 6, 2020 • 48m
Kendra Preston Leonard, "Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism" (Humanities Commons, 2010)
Jul 6, 2020 • 54m
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 7m
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
Jul 2, 2020 • 1h 10m
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020 • 1h 4m
Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2020 • 1h 2m
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2020 • 1h 12m
Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jun 18, 2020 • 35m
Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jun 11, 2020 • 1h 41m
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
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
Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
May 29, 2020 • 1h 6m
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020 • 59m
Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020 • 1h 30m
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020 • 54m
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
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 23, 2020 • 58m
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 20, 2020 • 53m
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
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
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 20, 2020 • 1h 1m
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 13, 2020 • 45m
Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019 • 1h 7m
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 11, 2019 • 1h 4m
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Dec 10, 2019 • 42m
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 3, 2019 • 57m
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
Dec 2, 2019 • 30m
Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019 • 1h 8m
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Nov 12, 2019 • 46m
Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Nov 4, 2019 • 1h 5m
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
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
Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
Sep 9, 2019 • 58m
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 29, 2019 • 36m
Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Aug 15, 2019 • 1h 0m
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 12, 2019 • 51m
Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Aug 7, 2019 • 1h 0m
David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thought, Settings and Issues" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Jul 29, 2019 • 53m
Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jul 11, 2019 • 1h 34m
Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
Jul 11, 2019 • 45m
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
Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties" (U Missouri Press, 2019)
Jun 14, 2019 • 52m
Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Jun 11, 2019 • 1h 7m
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Jun 7, 2019 • 58m
Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History" (Duke UP, 2018)
May 23, 2019 • 1h 3m
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
Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The United States Constitution in Film: Part of Our National Culture" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Apr 30, 2019 • 1h 6m
Michael Benson, "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark and The Making of a Masterpiece" (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019 • 38m
Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II" (GoodKnight Books, 2019)
Apr 16, 2019 • 58m
Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)
Apr 3, 2019 • 45m
Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Mar 21, 2019 • 55m
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019 • 32m
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Mar 7, 2019 • 1h 1m
Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Mar 5, 2019 • 1h 10m
Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema" (U Texas, 2018)
Feb 20, 2019 • 55m
Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Feb 19, 2019 • 1h 9m
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
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jan 22, 2019 • 42m
Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Jan 17, 2019 • 1h 2m
Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash" (UP of Florida, 2016)
Jan 7, 2019 • 1h 6m
David LaRocca, "The Philosophy of War Films" (U Press of Kentucky, 2018)
Dec 31, 2018 • 59m
Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000" (Intellect, 2017)
Dec 28, 2018 • 1h 5m
Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Dec 18, 2018 • 56m
Annabel Cooper, "Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen" (Otago UP, 2018)
Dec 14, 2018 • 17m
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 4m
Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout America!: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
Dec 5, 2018 • 1h 0m
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices" (Duke UP, 2018)
Nov 29, 2018 • 53m
Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women” (Mango Publishing Group, 2018)
Nov 16, 2018 • 1h 1m
Anindita Banerjee, “Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
Nov 8, 2018 • 42m
Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Oct 31, 2018 • 1h 17m
Anthony Slide, “Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
Oct 30, 2018 • 47m
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Violence’s Fabled Experiment” (August Verlag, 2018)
Oct 11, 2018 • 53m
Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Oct 10, 2018 • 48m
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of ‘Thelma & Louise’ Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin, 2018)
Aug 23, 2018 • 52m
Rachel Morley, “Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema” (I. B. Tauris, 2016)
Aug 1, 2018 • 50m
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
Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)
Jun 12, 2018 • 47m
Discussion with Dahlia Schweitzer (“Going Viral”) and Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”)
May 15, 2018 • 1h 5m
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
Jacob Bricca, “Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice” (Focal Press, 2018)
Apr 24, 2018 • 1h 5m
Brian Tochterman, “The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear” (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 23, 2018 • 1h 5m
Mehal Krayem, “Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Apr 20, 2018 • 21m
Dahlia Schweitzer, “Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Mar 29, 2018 • 1h 6m
Kerry Wallach, “Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
Mar 29, 2018 • 41m
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
Mar 28, 2018 • 1h 5m
Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mar 22, 2018 • 1h 19m
Jennifer Frost, “Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism and the Cold War” (UP of Kansas, 2017)
Feb 21, 2018 • 1h 8m
Carla M. Wilson, “Curious Impossibilities: Ten Cinematic Riffs” (Black Scat Books, 2017)
Feb 12, 2018 • 58m
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin Books, 2017)
Jan 30, 2018 • 1h 5m
Kevin Bartig, “Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 29, 2018 • 55m
Zach Sands, “Film Comedy and the American Dream” (Routledge, 2017)
Jan 25, 2018 • 31m
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
Jan 18, 2018 • 53m
Stephen Most, “Stories Make the World: Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary” (Berghahn Books, 2017)
Jan 3, 2018 • 1h 2m
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
Nov 27, 2017 • 1h 5m
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
Matthew S. Rindge, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream” (Baylor UP, 2016)
Nov 10, 2017 • 43m
Joel Dinerstein, “The Origins of Cool in Postwar America” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Oct 31, 2017 • 1h 9m
Stephen Pimpare, “Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 25, 2017 • 1h 2m
Noel Brown, “The Children’s Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative” (Wallflower Press, 2017)
Aug 19, 2017 • 24m
Patty Farmer, “Starring the Plaza: Hollywood, Broadway, and High Society Visit the World’s Favorite Hotel” (Beaufort Books, 2017)
Aug 14, 2017 • 49m
Jennifer Fleeger, “Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Aug 13, 2017 • 31m
Don Nunley with Marshall Terrill, “Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror” (Dalton Watson, 2017)
Aug 2, 2017 • 51m
Blake Atwood, “Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Jun 26, 2017 • 27m
William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jun 20, 2017 • 1h 13m
Gary Kulik, “War Stories: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers” (Potomac Books, 2009)
Jun 15, 2017 • 1h 10m
Gillian McIver, “Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Jun 14, 2017 • 48m
Stephen Lee Naish, “Deconstructing Dirty Dancing” (Zero Books, 2017)
May 16, 2017 • 1h 5m
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
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible” (Fordham UP, 2015)
Mar 28, 2017 • 1h 11m
Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)
Mar 21, 2017 • 54m
Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Mar 14, 2017 • 38m
Mick Broderick, “Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Nightmare Comedy'” (WallFlower Press, 2016)
Mar 2, 2017 • 1h 11m
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
James A. Davidson, “Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude” (McFarland, 2016)
Jan 24, 2017 • 1h 8m
Tom Rice, “White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan” (Indiana U. Press, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017 • 47m
Anthony Lioi, “Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Jan 20, 2017 • 1h 7m
Toni Pressley-Sanon, “Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen” (McFarland, 2016)
Jan 18, 2017 • 55m
Kevin Smokler, “Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies” (Rare Bird Books, 2016)
Jan 18, 2017 • 59m
David Shafer, “Antonin Artaud” (Reaktion/U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 4, 2017 • 1h 1m
Amanda Deutch, “Pull Yourself Together: The Gena Rowlands Poems” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)
Nov 23, 2016 • 8m
Robert Matzen, “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe” (GoodKnight Books, 2016)
Oct 24, 2016 • 1h 6m
Elizabeth Reich, “Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
Oct 10, 2016 • 34m
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
Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)
Aug 24, 2016 • 1h 4m
Sue Matheson, “The Westerns and War Films of John Ford” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Jul 21, 2016 • 58m
Anand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015)
Jun 26, 2016 • 48m
Cass Sunstein, “The World According to Star Wars” (Harper Collins, 2016)
May 28, 2016 • 34m
Birgit Meyer, “Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (U of California Press, 2015)
Apr 30, 2016 • 1h 5m
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
Kimberly Fain, “Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies” (Praeger, 2015)
Apr 3, 2016 • 1h 5m
Alan Sepinwall, “The Revolution Was Televised” (Touchstone, 2015)
Feb 24, 2016 • 31m
George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jan 22, 2016 • 55m
Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)
Dec 8, 2015 • 30m
Hilary Neroni, “The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015 • 1h 0m
Liam Burke, “The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre” (UP of Mississippi, 2015)
Sep 26, 2015 • 1h 11m
Elizabeth Haas, Terry Chrstensen, and Peter J. Haas, “Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films” (Routledge, 2015)
Sep 9, 2015 • 1h 3m
Laura Isabel Serna, “Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age” (Duke UP, 2014)
Aug 17, 2015 • 1h 16m
Michael Ray FitzGerald, “Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the ‘Good Indian'” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
Jul 24, 2015 • 54m
Caseen Gaines, “We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy” (Plume, 2015)
Jun 28, 2015 • 1h 12m
Suzanne Broderick, “Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
Jun 24, 2015 • 59m
Donald Dewey, “Lee J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Jun 20, 2015 • 1h 2m
Dave Itzkoff, “Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies” (Times Books, 2014)
Jun 10, 2015 • 1h 4m
Paul Seydor, “The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Northwestern UP, 2015)
Jun 2, 2015 • 1h 8m
Tom Hertweck, “Food on Film” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Apr 26, 2015 • 1h 9m
Hugo Frey, “Nationalism and the Cinema in France” (Berghahn Books, 2014)
Apr 24, 2015 • 1h 0m
Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)
Apr 17, 2015 • 53m
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, “Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life” (UNC Press, 2014)
Apr 10, 2015 • 1h 9m
Joan Kramer and David Heeley, “In the Company of Legends” (Beaufort Books, 2015)
Apr 3, 2015 • 1h 8m
Raluca Lucia Cimpean, “The JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Mar 28, 2015 • 1h 5m
Norma Jones, Maja-Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, “Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Feb 25, 2015 • 1h 5m
Steven Awalt, “Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Feb 18, 2015 • 1h 3m
Kutter Callaway, “Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience” (Baylor UP, 2013)
Feb 16, 2015 • 57m
John Wiley Jr., “The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2014)
Jan 22, 2015 • 1h 1m
Guy Westwell, “Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
Jan 13, 2015 • 56m
Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen, “War on the Silver Screen” (Potomac Books, 2014)
Jan 5, 2015 • 1h 0m
Dick Lehr, “The Birth of a Nation” (PublicAffairs, 2014)
Dec 19, 2014 • 51m
Bruce Babington, “The Sports Film: Games People Play” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
Dec 11, 2014 • 1h 0m
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, “1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans:
Dec 2, 2014 • 1h 5m
Laura Mattoon D’Amore, “Smart Chicks on Screen” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Nov 25, 2014 • 1h 5m
Bridget Conor, “Screenwriting: Creative labor and professional practice” (Routledge, 2014)
Nov 18, 2014 • 50m
Chris Taylor, “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” (Basic Books, 2014)
Nov 14, 2014 • 1h 4m
Bryn Upton, “Hollywood and the End of the Cold War: Signs of Cinematic Change” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Oct 21, 2014 • 58m
Hideaki Fujiki, “Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
Sep 4, 2014 • 1h 12m
M. Gail Hamner, “Imaging Religion in Film: The Politics of Nostalgia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
May 19, 2014 • 55m
Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
May 16, 2014 • 51m
Donald T. Critchlow, “When Hollywood Was Right” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Apr 27, 2014 • 57m
Aswin Punthamabekar, “From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry” (NYU Press, 2013)
Feb 19, 2014 • 48m
Olga Gershenson, “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe” (Rutgers UP, 2013)
Feb 5, 2014 • 1h 13m
Daisuke Miyao, “The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema” (Duke UP, 2013)
Jan 28, 2014 • 1h 10m
David Konow, “Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
Oct 17, 2013 • 1h 0m
Louis Menashe, “Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies” (New Academia, 2010)
Feb 15, 2013 • 1h 8m
S. Brent Plate, “Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World” (Wallflower Press, 2008)
Nov 5, 2012 • 1h 3m
David A. Kirby, “Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema” (MIT Press, 2011)
Jul 2, 2012 • 1h 5m
Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism” (NYU Press, 2011)
Oct 25, 2011 • 57m
Robert J. Corber, “Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema” (Duke University Press, 2011)
Aug 4, 2011 • 43m
Maria Yatskova, “Miss Gulag” (Neihausen-Yatskova & Vodar Films, 2007)
Jun 3, 2011 • 41m
Laura Wittern-Keller, “The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Nov 7, 2008 • 1h 5m
Laura Wittern-Keller, “Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to Film Censorship 1915-1981” (University of Kentucky Press, 2008)
Apr 4, 2008 • 1h 1m
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