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Interviews with Scholars of Film about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

Episode Date
First Reformed
May 13, 2024
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)
May 10, 2024
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
May 08, 2024
Hobson’s Choice
May 06, 2024
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
May 05, 2024
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
May 04, 2024
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 04, 2024
Kristi Irene McKim, "Rushmore" (British Film Institute, 2023)
May 03, 2024
Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)
May 03, 2024
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
May 02, 2024
We Own the Night
Apr 29, 2024
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Cat People
Apr 22, 2024
Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 19, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
The Ladykillers
Apr 15, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
Apr 14, 2024
Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Apr 12, 2024
Pan’s Labyrinth
Apr 08, 2024
Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Apr 05, 2024
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 05, 2024
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
Apr 02, 2024
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mar 25, 2024
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2024
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024
Defending Your Life
Mar 18, 2024
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
Mar 17, 2024
Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024
Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Magic
Mar 11, 2024
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
Mar 08, 2024
Baby Face
Mar 04, 2024
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 03, 2024
Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Mar 03, 2024
Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)
Mar 02, 2024
Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Feb 27, 2024
Conan the Barbarian
Feb 26, 2024
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Feb 19, 2024
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 14, 2024
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Feb 14, 2024
The Hunting Trilogy
Feb 12, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Feb 06, 2024
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Limelight
Feb 05, 2024
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 04, 2024
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Anatomy of a Fall
Jan 29, 2024
Ridley Scott's "Napoleon": A Historian's Review
Jan 28, 2024
Bliss Cua Lim, "The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jan 24, 2024
My Best Fiend
Jan 22, 2024
"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson (with Jonathon Fessenden)
Jan 18, 2024
Eyes Wide Shut
Jan 15, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jan 09, 2024
The Omen
Jan 08, 2024
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 08, 2024
Plot
Jan 04, 2024
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 01, 2024
Meet John Doe
Jan 01, 2024
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Dec 28, 2023
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
The Sting
Dec 25, 2023
Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023
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
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Donnie Darko
Dec 18, 2023
Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
Dec 11, 2023
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
Dec 08, 2023
Wild Strawberries
Dec 04, 2023
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 02, 2023
I Know Where I’m Going!
Nov 27, 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023
Spirited Away
Nov 21, 2023
Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
Nov 18, 2023
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Nov 15, 2023
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
Nov 15, 2023
Minority Report
Nov 13, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023
What Reality TV Says About Us
Nov 08, 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Nov 08, 2023
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
Nov 07, 2023
Point Blank
Nov 06, 2023
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 02, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Babette’s Feast
Oct 30, 2023
Stephen B. Armstrong, "I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023
Big Night
Oct 23, 2023
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Oct 21, 2023
Cutter’s Way
Oct 16, 2023
Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023
Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
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
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023
Lost in America
Oct 09, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 07, 2023
The Vanishing
Oct 02, 2023
Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 01, 2023
Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
Rope
Sep 25, 2023
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023
Sorcerer
Sep 19, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sep 11, 2023
The Blues Brothers
Sep 11, 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 09, 2023
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Sep 08, 2023
Caveh Zahedi, "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi" (Factory 25, 2015)
Sep 06, 2023
The Wages of Fear
Sep 04, 2023
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 02, 2023
Beth Tsai, "Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023
In a Lonely Place
Aug 28, 2023
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
Aug 23, 2023
The French Connection
Aug 21, 2023
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023
California Split
Aug 14, 2023
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Raging Bull
Aug 07, 2023
The Fourth Wise Man (with Jonathon Fessenden)
Aug 04, 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Aug 03, 2023
Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
The Great Dictator
Jul 31, 2023
Film Chat: Hsin-Chien Huang on VR Film in Taiwan
Jul 30, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
Jul 24, 2023
Bombay Talkies
Jul 20, 2023
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
Jul 20, 2023
Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jul 19, 2023
Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 18, 2023
The Matrix
Jul 17, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 08, 2023
Ball of Fire
Jul 07, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 06, 2023
Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Mulholland Drive
Jul 03, 2023
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 02, 2023
Stella Dallas
Jun 26, 2023
Sunset Blvd
Jun 19, 2023
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
Elephant Man
Jun 06, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 05, 2023
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jun 04, 2023
Black Film, British Cinema II
May 25, 2023
Brad Krumholz, "Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 24, 2023
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
May 22, 2023
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, "Secret Cinema and the Immersive Experience Industry" (Manchester UP, 2022)
May 13, 2023
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
May 12, 2023
Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)
May 09, 2023
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
May 02, 2023
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 20, 2023
Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Apr 20, 2023
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
Cinegogía: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
Apr 14, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
Apr 13, 2023
John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 07, 2023
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 04, 2023
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Apr 03, 2023
Suzanne Ferriss, "Lost in Translation" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Mar 28, 2023
Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
Mar 19, 2023
Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu
Mar 14, 2023
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Mar 13, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
Mar 13, 2023
Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023
Film Chat: Queer, Sci-Fi and the Family
Mar 11, 2023
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023
Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Mar 10, 2023
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
Mar 08, 2023
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
Mar 07, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
Mar 06, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies
Mar 05, 2023
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
Mar 04, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
Feb 27, 2023
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023
Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023
Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
Feb 10, 2023
Chris Kempshall, "The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
Feb 06, 2023
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Feb 05, 2023
Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton
Feb 02, 2023
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
Jan 29, 2023
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Jan 13, 2023
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
Jan 12, 2023
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 1)
Jan 11, 2023
The Fremen in "Dune"
Jan 10, 2023
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
Jan 09, 2023
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Jan 07, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Jan 06, 2023
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
Jan 03, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
Jan 01, 2023
Catholic Movies, Part 1: "Silence" and "The Scarlet and the Black"
Dec 30, 2022
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec 28, 2022
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Dec 25, 2022
What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
Dec 23, 2022
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
Dec 04, 2022
Craig Oldham, "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting" (Rough Trade Books, 2022)
Dec 03, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
Nov 23, 2022
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 22, 2022
Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Nov 15, 2022
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 08, 2022
Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
Nov 02, 2022
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
Oct 26, 2022
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 26, 2022
Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Larry Ceplair, "The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Wolverines!
Oct 19, 2022
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
Oct 18, 2022
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Oct 14, 2022
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Bonus Episode: A Conversation about Past Episodes and Current Events
Oct 12, 2022
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 11, 2022
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)
Oct 07, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 06, 2022
The Two Russias
Oct 05, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
Oct 04, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Cold War Homefront
Sep 28, 2022
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence" (Duke UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Sep 21, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
Sep 14, 2022
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
Sep 07, 2022
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
Sep 01, 2022
Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
Sep 01, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
Aug 31, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022
Reality TV
Aug 23, 2022
87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
Aug 18, 2022
Rebecca Weeks, "History by HBO: Televising the American Past" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
Aug 04, 2022
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Dey Street, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Squid Game
Jul 06, 2022
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
Jul 04, 2022
Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022
Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 21, 2022
Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022
Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Melissa Vosen Callens, "Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in 'Stranger Things' and 1980s Film" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jun 09, 2022
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 08, 2022
Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jun 07, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
Jun 07, 2022
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Ryan Watson, "Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jun 06, 2022
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 06, 2022
Daniel Fairfax, "The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Jun 03, 2022
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)
Jun 01, 2022
Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 13, 2022
Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 10, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
Apr 27, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 27, 2022
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2022
Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Apr 08, 2022
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 06, 2022
Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 04, 2022
Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 30, 2022
Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022
Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 16, 2022
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Nadir Lahiji, "Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Dahlia Schweitzer, "Haunted Homes" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022
Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Mar 09, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Mar 03, 2022
David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Kathryn Millard, "Double Exposure: How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2022
Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Feb 08, 2022
Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
Feb 08, 2022
Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, "Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Feb 04, 2022
Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 02, 2022
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 01, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Feb 01, 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
Jan 27, 2022
Henry K. Miller, "The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 25, 2022
Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 20, 2022
Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 18, 2022
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
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
Jan 13, 2022
Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jan 07, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jan 05, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
Dec 31, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
Dec 30, 2021
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 27, 2021
Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Dec 16, 2021
Matthew H. Brown, "Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
Dec 15, 2021
Kate Fortmueller, "Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Alisa Freedman, "Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost" (Association for Asian Studies, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
Caetlin Benson-Allott, "The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Nov 30, 2021
Raymond C. Kuo, "Following the Leader: Alliance Design, Security Strategies, and Institutional Emulation" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021
Kate Fortmueller, "Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Nov 03, 2021
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
Oct 22, 2021
Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021
Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson, "Reclaiming Popular Documentary" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Cyrus R. K. Patell, "Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, "The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021
Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Ends of Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Oct 13, 2021
Phil Rosenzweig, "Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
Oct 07, 2021
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (New Star Books, 2021)
Sep 29, 2021
Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
Sep 26, 2021
Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts, "Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Sep 24, 2021
Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Martin Harris, "Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire" (Headpress, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Cameron Crookston, "The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging?" (Intellect, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021
Scott Krzych, "Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 23, 2021
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jul 22, 2021
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, "Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 22, 2021
Ellen Seiter and Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jul 06, 2021
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
Jul 05, 2021
Carey Purcell, "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 25, 2021
Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021
Veronika Pehe, "Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
Jun 21, 2021
Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2021
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Jun 17, 2021
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Exploring the Diasporic Imagination in Recent Indonesian Popular Novels and Films (2000-2020)
Jun 03, 2021
Patrick Maille, "The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)
May 31, 2021
Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)
May 28, 2021
Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
May 21, 2021
David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
May 13, 2021
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
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
May 06, 2021
Marko Dumancic, "Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
May 05, 2021
Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
May 05, 2021
Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
Apr 30, 2021
Jack Black, "Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 27, 2021
Steven Capsuto, "Alternate Channels: Queer Images on 20th-Century TV" (2020)
Apr 23, 2021
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021
Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
Apr 12, 2021
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Apr 07, 2021
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 06, 2021
Amanda Ann Klein, "Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 05, 2021
James Elkins and Erna Fiorentini, "Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
D. A. Miller, "Hidden Hitchcock" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Mar 31, 2021
Xiaomei Chen, "Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 10, 2021
Frances Galt, "Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries" (Bristol UP, 2020)
Mar 05, 2021
Morton Schoolman, "A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
Mar 04, 2021
Debashree Mukherjee, "Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film" (Routledge, 2020)
Feb 24, 2021
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021
Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Feb 19, 2021
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
Feb 05, 2021
Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema" (Palgrave, 2019)
Feb 05, 2021
André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
Jan 20, 2021
Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021
Woojeong Joo, "Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday" (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
Jan 11, 2021
Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 08, 2021
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom" (Routledge, 2018)
Dec 28, 2020
Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Dec 15, 2020
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020
Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Nov 16, 2020
Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others" (No Place Press, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
Oct 05, 2020
Glenn Kenny, "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas" (Hanover Square, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcock and His Imitators" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 28, 2020
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
Sep 25, 2020
Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Sep 15, 2020
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020
Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-bating, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures" (U Mississippi, 2020)
Aug 28, 2020
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 21, 2020
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Aug 20, 2020
Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style" (Wallflower Press, 2020)
Aug 04, 2020
The Joker: How a “Typical Hoodlum” Character of the ‘40s Attained Cult Status Today
Jul 29, 2020
Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020
Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
Jul 24, 2020
Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (The New Press, 2020)
Jul 07, 2020
Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jul 06, 2020
Kendra Preston Leonard, "Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism" (Humanities Commons, 2010)
Jul 06, 2020
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
Jul 03, 2020
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
Jul 02, 2020
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2020
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2020
Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jun 18, 2020
Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jun 11, 2020
Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 08, 2020
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Jun 05, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
May 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Mar 26, 2020
Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
Mar 24, 2020
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 23, 2020
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 20, 2020
Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)
Mar 03, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 24, 2020
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 20, 2020
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 13, 2020
Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 11, 2019
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Dec 10, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
Dec 02, 2019
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Nov 12, 2019
Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Nov 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re-Imaging Gender in Wakanda" (WDL, 2019)
Oct 28, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
Sep 09, 2019
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 29, 2019
Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Aug 15, 2019
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 12, 2019
Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Aug 07, 2019
David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thought, Settings and Issues" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Jul 29, 2019
Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jul 11, 2019
Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
Jul 11, 2019
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 21, 2019
Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jun 19, 2019
Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jun 18, 2019
Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties" (U Missouri Press, 2019)
Jun 14, 2019
Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Jun 11, 2019
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Jun 07, 2019
Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History" (Duke UP, 2018)
May 23, 2019
Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
May 13, 2019
Nicholas Baer et al. "Unwatchable" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
May 09, 2019
Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The United States Constitution in Film: Part of Our National Culture" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Apr 30, 2019
Michael Benson, "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark and The Making of a Masterpiece" (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019
Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II" (GoodKnight Books, 2019)
Apr 16, 2019
Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)
Apr 03, 2019
Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Mar 21, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Mar 07, 2019
Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Mar 05, 2019
Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema" (U Texas, 2018)
Feb 20, 2019
Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Feb 19, 2019
Nathan Holmes, "Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Feb 11, 2019
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jan 22, 2019
Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Jan 17, 2019
Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash" (UP of Florida, 2016)
Jan 07, 2019
David LaRocca, "The Philosophy of War Films" (U Press of Kentucky, 2018)
Dec 31, 2018
Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000" (Intellect, 2017)
Dec 28, 2018
Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Dec 18, 2018
Annabel Cooper, "Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen" (Otago UP, 2018)
Dec 14, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout America!: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
Dec 05, 2018
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices" (Duke UP, 2018)
Nov 29, 2018
Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women” (Mango Publishing Group, 2018)
Nov 16, 2018
Anindita Banerjee, “Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
Nov 08, 2018
Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Oct 31, 2018
Anthony Slide, “Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
Oct 30, 2018
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Violence’s Fabled Experiment” (August Verlag, 2018)
Oct 11, 2018
Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Oct 10, 2018
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of ‘Thelma & Louise’ Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin, 2018)
Aug 23, 2018
Rachel Morley, “Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema” (I. B. Tauris, 2016)
Aug 01, 2018
Martin Shuster, “New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 19, 2018
Chris Nashawaty, “Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story” (Flatiron Books, 2018)
Jul 18, 2018
Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)
Jun 12, 2018
Discussion with Dahlia Schweitzer (“Going Viral”) and Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”)
May 15, 2018
Mark A. McCutcheon, “The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology” (Athabasca UP, 2018)
May 03, 2018
Jacob Bricca, “Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice” (Focal Press, 2018)
Apr 24, 2018
Brian Tochterman, “The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear” (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 23, 2018
Mehal Krayem, “Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Apr 20, 2018
Dahlia Schweitzer, “Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Mar 29, 2018
Kerry Wallach, “Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
Mar 29, 2018
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
Mar 28, 2018
Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mar 22, 2018
Jennifer Frost, “Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism and the Cold War” (UP of Kansas, 2017)
Feb 21, 2018
Carla M. Wilson, “Curious Impossibilities: Ten Cinematic Riffs” (Black Scat Books, 2017)
Feb 12, 2018
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin Books, 2017)
Jan 30, 2018
Kevin Bartig, “Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 29, 2018
Zach Sands, “Film Comedy and the American Dream” (Routledge, 2017)
Jan 25, 2018
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
Jan 18, 2018
Stephen Most, “Stories Make the World: Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary” (Berghahn Books, 2017)
Jan 03, 2018
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
Nov 27, 2017
Mary Tomsic, “Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia, 1920-1990” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Nov 17, 2017
Matthew S. Rindge, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream” (Baylor UP, 2016)
Nov 10, 2017
Joel Dinerstein, “The Origins of Cool in Postwar America” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Oct 31, 2017
Stephen Pimpare, “Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 25, 2017
Noel Brown, “The Children’s Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative” (Wallflower Press, 2017)
Aug 19, 2017
Patty Farmer, “Starring the Plaza: Hollywood, Broadway, and High Society Visit the World’s Favorite Hotel” (Beaufort Books, 2017)
Aug 14, 2017
Jennifer Fleeger, “Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Aug 13, 2017
Don Nunley with Marshall Terrill, “Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror” (Dalton Watson, 2017)
Aug 02, 2017
Blake Atwood, “Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Jun 26, 2017
William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jun 20, 2017
Gary Kulik, “War Stories: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers” (Potomac Books, 2009)
Jun 15, 2017
Gillian McIver, “Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Jun 14, 2017
Stephen Lee Naish, “Deconstructing Dirty Dancing” (Zero Books, 2017)
May 16, 2017
Mia Mask, “Divas on the Screen: Black Women in American Film” (U. of Illinois Press, 2009)
Mar 29, 2017
Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McFarland, 2015)
Mar 29, 2017
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible” (Fordham UP, 2015)
Mar 28, 2017
Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)
Mar 21, 2017
Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Mar 14, 2017
Mick Broderick, “Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Nightmare Comedy'” (WallFlower Press, 2016)
Mar 02, 2017
Sherilyn Connelly, “Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016” (McFarland, 2017)
Feb 23, 2017
Bob Moss, “Vibes from the Screen: Getting Greater Enjoyment from Films” (MCP Books, 2016)
Feb 21, 2017
James A. Davidson, “Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude” (McFarland, 2016)
Jan 24, 2017
Tom Rice, “White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan” (Indiana U. Press, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017
Anthony Lioi, “Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Jan 20, 2017
Toni Pressley-Sanon, “Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen” (McFarland, 2016)
Jan 18, 2017
Kevin Smokler, “Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies” (Rare Bird Books, 2016)
Jan 18, 2017
David Shafer, “Antonin Artaud” (Reaktion/U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 04, 2017
Amanda Deutch, “Pull Yourself Together: The Gena Rowlands Poems” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)
Nov 23, 2016
Robert Matzen, “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe” (GoodKnight Books, 2016)
Oct 24, 2016
Elizabeth Reich, “Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
Oct 10, 2016
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
Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)
Aug 24, 2016
Sue Matheson, “The Westerns and War Films of John Ford” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Jul 21, 2016
Anand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015)
Jun 26, 2016
Cass Sunstein, “The World According to Star Wars” (Harper Collins, 2016)
May 28, 2016
Birgit Meyer, “Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (U of California Press, 2015)
Apr 30, 2016
Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016)
Apr 19, 2016
Jason Mittell, “Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television” (NYU Press 2015)
Apr 18, 2016
Kimberly Fain, “Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies” (Praeger, 2015)
Apr 03, 2016
Alan Sepinwall, “The Revolution Was Televised” (Touchstone, 2015)
Feb 24, 2016
George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jan 22, 2016
Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)
Dec 08, 2015
Hilary Neroni, “The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015
Liam Burke, “The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre” (UP of Mississippi, 2015)
Sep 26, 2015
Elizabeth Haas, Terry Chrstensen, and Peter J. Haas, “Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films” (Routledge, 2015)
Sep 09, 2015
Laura Isabel Serna, “Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age” (Duke UP, 2014)
Aug 17, 2015
Michael Ray FitzGerald, “Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the ‘Good Indian'” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
Jul 24, 2015
Caseen Gaines, “We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy” (Plume, 2015)
Jun 28, 2015
Suzanne Broderick, “Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
Jun 24, 2015
Donald Dewey, “Lee J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Jun 20, 2015
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
Paul Seydor, “The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Northwestern UP, 2015)
Jun 02, 2015
Tom Hertweck, “Food on Film” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Apr 26, 2015
Hugo Frey, “Nationalism and the Cinema in France” (Berghahn Books, 2014)
Apr 24, 2015
Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)
Apr 17, 2015
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, “Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life” (UNC Press, 2014)
Apr 10, 2015
Joan Kramer and David Heeley, “In the Company of Legends” (Beaufort Books, 2015)
Apr 03, 2015
Raluca Lucia Cimpean, “The JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Mar 28, 2015
Norma Jones, Maja-Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, “Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Feb 25, 2015
Steven Awalt, “Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Feb 18, 2015
Kutter Callaway, “Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience” (Baylor UP, 2013)
Feb 16, 2015
John Wiley Jr., “The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2014)
Jan 22, 2015
Guy Westwell, “Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
Jan 13, 2015
Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen, “War on the Silver Screen” (Potomac Books, 2014)
Jan 05, 2015
Dick Lehr, “The Birth of a Nation” (PublicAffairs, 2014)
Dec 19, 2014
Bruce Babington, “The Sports Film: Games People Play” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
Dec 11, 2014
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, “1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans:
Dec 02, 2014
Laura Mattoon D’Amore, “Smart Chicks on Screen” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Nov 25, 2014
Bridget Conor, “Screenwriting: Creative labor and professional practice” (Routledge, 2014)
Nov 18, 2014
Chris Taylor, “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” (Basic Books, 2014)
Nov 14, 2014
Bryn Upton, “Hollywood and the End of the Cold War: Signs of Cinematic Change” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Oct 21, 2014
Hideaki Fujiki, “Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
Sep 04, 2014
M. Gail Hamner, “Imaging Religion in Film: The Politics of Nostalgia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
May 19, 2014
Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
May 16, 2014
Donald T. Critchlow, “When Hollywood Was Right” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Apr 27, 2014
Aswin Punthamabekar, “From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry” (NYU Press, 2013)
Feb 19, 2014
Olga Gershenson, “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe” (Rutgers UP, 2013)
Feb 05, 2014
Daisuke Miyao, “The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema” (Duke UP, 2013)
Jan 28, 2014
David Konow, “Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
Oct 17, 2013
Louis Menashe, “Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies” (New Academia, 2010)
Feb 15, 2013
S. Brent Plate, “Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World” (Wallflower Press, 2008)
Nov 05, 2012
David A. Kirby, “Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema” (MIT Press, 2011)
Jul 02, 2012
Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism” (NYU Press, 2011)
Oct 25, 2011
Robert J. Corber, “Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema” (Duke University Press, 2011)
Aug 04, 2011
Maria Yatskova, “Miss Gulag” (Neihausen-Yatskova & Vodar Films, 2007)
Jun 03, 2011
Laura Wittern-Keller, “The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Nov 07, 2008
Laura Wittern-Keller, “Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to Film Censorship 1915-1981” (University of Kentucky Press, 2008)
Apr 04, 2008