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Interviews with Scholars of Popular Culture about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

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Dave Cook, "Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-'Em-Ups" (Bitmap Books, 2022)
May 31, 2025
Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
May 30, 2025
Laura Lee Flanagan, "Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!" (Process Media, 2025)
May 30, 2025
Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
May 29, 2025
Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
May 23, 2025
Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 22, 2025
Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 22, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
May 17, 2025
Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 16, 2025
Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
May 15, 2025
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
May 14, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 13, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline
May 12, 2025
Brian M. Ingrassia, "Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America" (
May 11, 2025
Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 10, 2025
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
May 09, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 06, 2025
Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison, "Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
May 04, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information
May 03, 2025
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
May 02, 2025
Lynn Downey, "American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Apr 30, 2025
Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix
Apr 29, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political
Apr 28, 2025
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025
James Cartlidge, "The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon" (CRC Press, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Apr 23, 2025
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Apr 22, 2025
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 21, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025
Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025
Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 16, 2025
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
Apr 15, 2025
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 13, 2025
Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
Apr 11, 2025
Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 08, 2025
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 04, 2025
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Apr 02, 2025
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Apr 01, 2025
Making Radio History
Mar 31, 2025
D. D. Miller, "Eight-wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd's Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016)
Mar 30, 2025
Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
Mar 29, 2025
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2025
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Mar 24, 2025
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 18, 2025
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 17, 2025
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
Mar 15, 2025
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Mar 14, 2025
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 11, 2025
Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
Mar 08, 2025
Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Mar 07, 2025
Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Mar 07, 2025
Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
Mar 06, 2025
Blair Farrell, "The Avengers in Video Games" (McFarland, 2021)
Mar 05, 2025
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
Mar 05, 2025
Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
Mar 04, 2025
Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Mar 03, 2025
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Mar 03, 2025
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 02, 2025
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Feb 26, 2025
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
Feb 25, 2025
In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
Feb 22, 2025
Shelly Jones and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, "Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic, The Gathering and Its Influence" (McFarland, 2023)
Feb 20, 2025
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 15, 2025
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Feb 12, 2025
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
Feb 11, 2025
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 11, 2025
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 09, 2025
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 09, 2025
Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)
Feb 08, 2025
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 08, 2025
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
Feb 08, 2025
Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 05, 2025
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
Feb 03, 2025
Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)
Feb 03, 2025
A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
Jan 28, 2025
Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 20, 2025
Marco Arnaudo, "The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century" (McFarland, 2023)
Jan 19, 2025
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Jan 17, 2025
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 16, 2025
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jan 15, 2025
Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 14, 2025
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Jan 13, 2025
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
Jan 09, 2025
Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
Jan 05, 2025
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
Jan 04, 2025
Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Dec 31, 2024
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Dec 28, 2024
Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024
Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024
Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024
Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
Dec 15, 2024
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dec 11, 2024
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 08, 2024
Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dec 05, 2024
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)
Dec 04, 2024
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024
Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 29, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
Nov 27, 2024
Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024
Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024
Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 22, 2024
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Nov 21, 2024
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
Nov 20, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Nov 18, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
Nov 18, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 17, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 14, 2024
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 13, 2024
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 12, 2024
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
Nov 12, 2024
Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
Nov 10, 2024
Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 09, 2024
Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
Nov 06, 2024
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Nov 02, 2024
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2024
Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Oct 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Oct 23, 2024
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 19, 2024
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024
Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024
Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Oct 17, 2024
Maurice Suckling, "Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Oct 11, 2024
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 10, 2024
Yolonda Youngs, "Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Oct 09, 2024
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Oct 08, 2024
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
Oct 08, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 04, 2024
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Sep 29, 2024
Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024
Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
Sep 26, 2024
Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024
Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 20, 2024
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024
Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024
Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Sep 16, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024
The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
Sep 12, 2024
Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 08, 2024
Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Sep 07, 2024
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
Sep 07, 2024
Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Sep 06, 2024
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 03, 2024
John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Sep 02, 2024
James P. Leary, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946” (U Wisconsin Press, 2015)
Sep 01, 2024
Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024
Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024
Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 28, 2024
Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
Aug 26, 2024
Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?
Aug 19, 2024
Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
Aug 18, 2024
Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 08, 2024
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 07, 2024
Franz Nicolay, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Aug 06, 2024
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 05, 2024
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
Aug 04, 2024
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 03, 2024
Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024
Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Miriam Eve Mora, "Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century" (Wayne State UP, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 25, 2024
40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024
Jul 25, 2024
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 22, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Jul 21, 2024
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Jul 19, 2024
Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2024
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2024
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Jul 14, 2024
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jul 13, 2024
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, "Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism" (Lexington, 2023)
Jul 12, 2024
Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
Jul 12, 2024
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024
Andrew S. Jacobs, "Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 08, 2024
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 07, 2024
Kathryn Hughes, "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jul 07, 2024
Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jul 07, 2024
Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)
Jul 03, 2024
On Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo Jefferson
Jun 29, 2024
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 27, 2024
Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 26, 2024
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024
Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024
Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Jun 23, 2024
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 23, 2024
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024
Anahit Behrooz, "BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship" (404 Ink, 2023)
Jun 20, 2024
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
Jun 14, 2024
On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”
Jun 14, 2024
Amy E. Wright, "Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, from Nationhood to Now" (Vanderbilt UP, 2023)
Jun 11, 2024
Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)
Jun 11, 2024
Screwed and Chopped
Jun 10, 2024
Corey J. Miles, "Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South" (U Mississippi Press, 2024)
Jun 07, 2024
Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jun 04, 2024
Eleanor Medhurst, "Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion" (Hurst, 2024)
Jun 03, 2024
Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jun 02, 2024
Daniel Rachel, "Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Akashic Books, 2024)
Jun 01, 2024
Ryan White, "Springsteen: Album by Album" (Palazzo Editions, 2024)
May 31, 2024
Bodie A. Ashton, "The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 28, 2024
Ears Racing
May 27, 2024
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
May 23, 2024
Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
May 22, 2024
James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024)
May 19, 2024
En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
May 14, 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
May 11, 2024
Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
May 10, 2024
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
Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024)
May 08, 2024
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
May 04, 2024
Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 04, 2024
Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)
May 03, 2024
Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
May 03, 2024
Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
May 01, 2024
Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021)
Apr 28, 2024
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2024
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Apr 23, 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
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2024
Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Apr 11, 2024
Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 09, 2024
Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 09, 2024
Adele Oliver, "Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill" (404 Ink, 2023)
Apr 07, 2024
Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)
Apr 06, 2024
Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 06, 2024
Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Apr 06, 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
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 03, 2024
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
Apr 02, 2024
Ben Highmore, "Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024
Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024
John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 15, 2024
Micajah Henley, "The Clash's Sandinista!" (Bloombury, 2024)
Mar 14, 2024
Piotr Florczyk, "Swimming Pool" (Bloombury, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
Mar 11, 2024
David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 11, 2024
Samantha Majic, "Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
Mar 08, 2024
Amy Coddington, "How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 06, 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
Tyler C. Gore, "My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2022)
Feb 28, 2024
Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
Feb 27, 2024
Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Feb 27, 2024
Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024
John Howland, "Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music" (U California Press, 2021)
Feb 18, 2024
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 14, 2024
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024
Richard T. Rodríguez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 09, 2024
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Brydie Kosmina, "Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Feb 06, 2024
Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 05, 2024
Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 04, 2024
Dustin Kiskaddon, "Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Feb 04, 2024
William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
Feb 03, 2024
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024
Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
Judith Fathallah, "Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer" (Mediastudies Press, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024
Kate Annett-Hitchcock, "The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jan 22, 2024
Aaron Carnes, "In Defense of Ska: The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition" (Clash Books, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Thomas Baudinette, "Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 16, 2024
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 14, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2024
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 09, 2024
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jan 07, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
Jan 01, 2024
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
Dec 28, 2023
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 28, 2023
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Dec 28, 2023
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
Dec 26, 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
Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2023
Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Emma Reay, "The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023
Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
Dec 15, 2023
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Lynn Z. Bloom, "Recipe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 13, 2023
Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Jesse Dart, "Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Dec 11, 2023
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2023
Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
Dec 09, 2023
Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)
Dec 08, 2023
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, "An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Dec 08, 2023
Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 07, 2023
Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 06, 2023
Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
Dec 06, 2023
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Dec 05, 2023
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 03, 2023
H. E. Sawyer, "I Am the Dark Tourist: Messenger of Remembrance" (Headpress, 2023)
Dec 03, 2023
Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023
Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023
Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
Nov 20, 2023
Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
Nov 18, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
Nov 15, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023
A Deep Dive into Olivia Rodrigo's "Guts"
Nov 09, 2023
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
Nov 09, 2023
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
Nov 09, 2023
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 09, 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
Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 07, 2023
Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Nov 05, 2023
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 04, 2023
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Nov 02, 2023
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Oct 29, 2023
Jason Lamb, "NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion, an Oral History" (PM Press, 2024)
Oct 28, 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
Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)
Oct 26, 2023
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Oct 21, 2023
Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2023
Sébastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2023
Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023
Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
Kate Polak, "Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
Oct 10, 2023
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023
Johannes C. P. Schmid, "Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Oct 09, 2023
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Oct 08, 2023
Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Oct 07, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 07, 2023
Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)
Oct 05, 2023
Sheldon Birnie, "Missing Like Teeth: An Oral History of Winnipeg Underground Rock, 1900-2001" (‎Eternal Cavalier Press, 2015)
Oct 04, 2023
Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 03, 2023
Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Oct 02, 2023
Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
Malgorzata Fidelis, "Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 22, 2023
Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
Sep 21, 2023
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History" (Artemesia Publishing, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023
Karen Eva Carr, "Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Sep 17, 2023
Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 15, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
Sep 14, 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
Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 10, 2023
Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Sep 10, 2023
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Sep 08, 2023
Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Sep 05, 2023
Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Sep 02, 2023
John Brackett, "Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness" (Duke UP, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 28, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023
Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (Hülsbusch, 2023)
Aug 23, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
Aug 23, 2023
Jean M. Twenge, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future" (Atria, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023
Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
Aug 17, 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
Aug 15, 2023
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Aug 14, 2023
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 09, 2023
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2023
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Aug 04, 2023
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
Aug 04, 2023
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Aug 03, 2023
The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Aug 01, 2023
Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jul 31, 2023
Tara Isabella Burton, "Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 24, 2023
Rich Deakin, "Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead" (Headpress, 2021)
Jul 23, 2023
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023
Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)
Jul 19, 2023
Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023
Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023
Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 11, 2023
Stephen Davies, "Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jul 10, 2023
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 08, 2023
Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 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
Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
Jul 02, 2023
Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma
Jun 24, 2023
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
Jun 19, 2023
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 17, 2023
Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 12, 2023
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jun 11, 2023
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023
Michael T. Friedman, "Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jun 07, 2023
Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 07, 2023
Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jun 06, 2023
Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
May 28, 2023
Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)
May 25, 2023
Landon Jones, "Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers" (Beacon, 2023)
May 19, 2023
Mark Goodall, "Gathering of the Tribe: A Companion to Occult Music on Vinyl" (Headpress, 2022)
May 12, 2023
John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 12, 2023
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 11, 2023
Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)
May 07, 2023
Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Journalistic Collaboration (JP)
May 04, 2023
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
May 02, 2023
Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023
Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)
Apr 25, 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
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023
Justin L. Bergner, "Solving the Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions On and Off the Set of America's Celebrated Game Show" (Prometheus Books, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023
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
The Garage: A History
Apr 16, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
Apr 13, 2023
Hearts of Men: How Should Progressives React to Masculinity Influencers like Andrew Tate?
Apr 12, 2023
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 11, 2023
Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Apr 10, 2023
Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
Apr 08, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 07, 2023
Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Apr 04, 2023
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Apr 03, 2023
Geoff Harkness, "DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 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
David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2023
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2023
Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)
Mar 20, 2023
Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
Mar 18, 2023
John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)
Mar 17, 2023
Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)
Mar 16, 2023
Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)
Mar 16, 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
Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)
Mar 11, 2023
Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023
Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
The Los Angeles Review of Books: A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke
Mar 06, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
Mar 06, 2023
Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Mar 06, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies
Mar 05, 2023
Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
Mar 03, 2023
Affective Masculinities
Feb 27, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
Feb 27, 2023
Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023
Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, "The Sounds of Spectators at Football" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023
Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Feb 25, 2023
Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)
Feb 25, 2023
Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023
Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023
Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler, "The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Feb 14, 2023
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023
Lauron J. Kehrer, "Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023
Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)
Feb 14, 2023
Jonathan Ervine, "Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions" (Liverpool UP, 2019)
Feb 10, 2023
Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
Feb 10, 2023
Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 08, 2023
Chris Kempshall, "The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
Steven Hyden, "Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Feb 06, 2023
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
Feb 06, 2023
Deep Cuts: Classic Rock and Hair Metal with Professor and Guitarist Jesse Kavadlo
Feb 05, 2023
Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 02, 2023
Maria Sonevytsky, "Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine" (Wesleyan UP, 2019)
Jan 28, 2023
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Jan 26, 2023
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
Jan 24, 2023
Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Jan 22, 2023
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 20, 2023
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jan 14, 2023
Child's Play: The Seriousness of Children's Literature
Jan 13, 2023
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Jan 13, 2023
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
Jan 13, 2023
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
Jan 12, 2023
Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 11, 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
Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 07, 2023
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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
Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jan 06, 2023
Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
Jan 04, 2023
Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 04, 2023
Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
Jan 03, 2023
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
Jan 03, 2023
Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
Jan 01, 2023
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec 28, 2022
Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 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
Jane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 19, 2022
Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
Thomas Beller, "Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022
Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
Dec 04, 2022
Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)
Dec 04, 2022
Craig Oldham, "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting" (Rough Trade Books, 2022)
Dec 03, 2022
Lisa Morton, "Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)
Nov 25, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Nov 21, 2022
Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
Nov 17, 2022
Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia: A Conversation with Annie Rauwerda
Nov 17, 2022
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Nov 15, 2022
Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2022
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Nov 09, 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
Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)
Nov 02, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
Nov 02, 2022
Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
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
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Oct 24, 2022
Darrel Perkins, "The End Is At Hand" (Feral House, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
Oct 20, 2022
John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
Oct 19, 2022
Wolverines!
Oct 19, 2022
John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)
Oct 18, 2022
Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)
Oct 17, 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
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Alan Warde et al., "The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2022
Alena Pirok, "The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Oct 11, 2022
Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Oct 11, 2022
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 06, 2022
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 06, 2022
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
Oct 06, 2022
The Two Russias
Oct 05, 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 03, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Cold War Homefront
Sep 28, 2022
Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
Sep 27, 2022
Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
Sep 27, 2022
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022
Andrew Bomback, "Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022
Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2021)
Sep 22, 2022
Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Sep 21, 2022
Stevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
Brian D. Bunk, "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Sep 19, 2022
Emily Bingham, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song" (Knopf, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
Sep 14, 2022
Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
Sep 07, 2022
Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
Davida Breier, "Sinkhole" (U New Orleans Press, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 06, 2022
Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
Sep 01, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Will Birch, "Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe" (Da Capo Press, 2019)
Aug 31, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
Aug 31, 2022
Paul Oyer, "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports" (Yale UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
Aug 26, 2022
Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization
Aug 25, 2022
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022
Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022
Reality TV
Aug 23, 2022
Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
Aug 23, 2022
Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
Aug 22, 2022
Andrew M. Guest, "Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Aug 18, 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
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022
Minh-Ha T. Pham, "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property" (Duke UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
On Apocalypse Stories
Aug 09, 2022
M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 09, 2022
Tara Nurin, "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
Aug 08, 2022
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Aug 05, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
Aug 04, 2022
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Aug 03, 2022
Jin Feng, "Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Aug 01, 2022
Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
John M. Shaw, "Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
Jeff Hayton, "Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022
Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022
Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania
Jul 19, 2022
Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick, "Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Jul 18, 2022
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Day Street, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Monuments
Jul 15, 2022
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Cultures in the United States" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 11, 2022
Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Squid Game
Jul 06, 2022
Ashley Remer and Tiffany Isselhardt, "Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
Jul 06, 2022
Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" (Jawbone, 2021)
Jul 05, 2022
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
Jul 04, 2022
Stefanie K. Dunning, "Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jul 01, 2022
Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre, "Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jul 01, 2022
Daniel Silva, "Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022
Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022
Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022
Fandom
Jun 17, 2022
83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
Jun 16, 2022
Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Jun 15, 2022
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Jun 13, 2022
Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale, "Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia" (Lexington, 2016)
Jun 10, 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
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jun 08, 2022
Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
Jun 07, 2022
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 03, 2022
82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
Jun 02, 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
Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 31, 2022
Crosswords
May 31, 2022
Mike Errico, "Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter" (Backbeat Book, 2022)
May 26, 2022
Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
May 26, 2022
Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
May 26, 2022
Alejandro Nava, "Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 25, 2022
Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
May 25, 2022
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)
May 18, 2022
Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
May 17, 2022
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 13, 2022
Nigel Rothfels, "Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
May 13, 2022
Craig Calcaterra, "Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
May 05, 2022
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
May 03, 2022
Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 28, 2022
Nancy Barile, "I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion" (Bazillion Points, 2021)
Apr 28, 2022
Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
Apr 27, 2022
Thomas Aiello, "Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
Apr 27, 2022
Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
Apr 26, 2022
Sam Lebovic, "A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 22, 2022
JVN
Apr 21, 2022
Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, "Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022
Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Apr 19, 2022
Paul R. Deslandes, "The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022
Nancy Pedri, "A Concise Dictionary of Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022
Corey Landon Wozniak, "The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City" (Revealer, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022
Kenneth Partridge, "Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022
Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022
78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
Apr 07, 2022
Albena Shkodrova, "Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 06, 2022
Hugo Ceron-Anaya, "Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 06, 2022
David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 05, 2022
Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 04, 2022
Kelly Herold et al., "Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017" (Brill, 2021)
Apr 01, 2022
All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press
Apr 01, 2022
Jessica P. Clark, "The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 31, 2022
Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022
Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 30, 2022
Kate Guthrie, "The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain" (U California Press, 2021)
Mar 29, 2022
Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022
Francesca Morgan, "A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History" (UNC Press, 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
Daudi Abe, "Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Mar 23, 2022
E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
Mar 17, 2022
Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Mar 17, 2022
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
Valerie Chepp, "Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
Mike McCartney, "Mike McCartney's Early Liverpool" (Genesis Publications, 2021)
Mar 15, 2022
Tim Smolko and Joanna Smolko, "Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Uwe Schütte, "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany" (Penguin, 2021)
Mar 10, 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
Samir Chopra, "The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey" (Temple UP, 2021)
Mar 09, 2022
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
Mar 08, 2022
William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2022
Clarissa Ceglio, "A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of U.S. Museums" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2022
Michella M. Marino, "Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022
Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts, "Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Feb 08, 2022
Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
Feb 04, 2022
Michael Stewart Foley, "Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash" (Basic Books, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022
Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 28, 2022
Kirsten W. Larson, "A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything" (Clarion Books, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
Jan 26, 2022
Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Georgia Cervin, "Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 20, 2022
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa et al., "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
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
Jake Johnson, "Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 07, 2022
Winfrey Harris, "The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021
Vivian Nun Halloran, "The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora" (Ohio State UP, 2016)
Dec 17, 2021
Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Dec 16, 2021
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
Dec 15, 2021
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Bryant Terry, "Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora" (4 Color Books, 2021)
Dec 13, 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
Dave Zirin, "The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World" (New Press, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Caetlin Benson-Allott, "The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Demet Güzey, "Mustard: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
Nov 30, 2021
Yael Levy, "Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021
Carolyn L. White, "The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
Nov 17, 2021
Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 11, 2021
Samantha Durbin, "Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s" (She Writes Press, 2021)
Nov 05, 2021
Amy Sodaro, "Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Nov 04, 2021
David Pearson, "Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2021
Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
Oct 26, 2021
Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)
Oct 25, 2021
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Ashley Hinck, "Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World" (LSU Press, 2019)
Oct 22, 2021
Alex E. Chávez, "Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño" (Duke UP, 2017)
Oct 21, 2021
Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 21, 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
Kemi Adeyemi et al., "Queer Nightlife" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite, "A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History Of 309" (UP of Florida, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Mike Dines et al., "The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global" (Intellect, 2019)
Oct 12, 2021
Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson, "Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back" (U Texas Press, 2020)
Oct 11, 2021
John Wigger, "PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 05, 2021
Shayna Maskell, "Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts, "Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Sep 24, 2021
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021
Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 21, 2021
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021
Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Thomas Michael Kersen, "Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Martin Harris, "Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire" (Headpress, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Cameron Crookston, "The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging?" (Intellect, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
Gerd Horten, "Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
Sep 02, 2021
Caseen Gaines, "Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
Aug 11, 2021
Alison Rose Jefferson, "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Aug 09, 2021
Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 04, 2021
Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021
Alison K. Smith, "Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Jul 27, 2021
Joseph P. Laycock, "Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds" (U California Press, 2015)
Jul 26, 2021
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
Gina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 20, 2021
Knitting and Politics in the Age of Trump: A Discussion with Carrie Battan
Jul 20, 2021
Pablo Palomino, "The Invention of Latin American Music" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
Eric C. Rath, "Oishii: The History of Sushi" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, "Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 12, 2021
Alan McDougall, "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jul 12, 2021
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
Jeanne Pitre Soileau, "Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Jul 06, 2021
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
Jun 29, 2021
Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jun 25, 2021
Alessandro Testa, "Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe" (Routledge, 2020)
Jun 25, 2021
Annelise Heinz, "Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 24, 2021
Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021
Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021
Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021
Mark Mordue, "Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Jun 16, 2021
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
Jun 16, 2021
Eviatar Zerubavel, "Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jun 15, 2021
Peter Morey, "Islamophobia and the Novel" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Jun 11, 2021
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Jordan A. Stein, "When Novels Were Books" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 02, 2021
Dianne Jacob, "Will Write for Food" (Hachette Go, 2021)
Jun 02, 2021
Patrick Maille, "The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Julie Golia, "Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age" (Oxford UP, 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
Benjamin Piekut, "Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem" (Duke UP, 2019)
May 28, 2021
Blake Scott Ball, "Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 25, 2021
Katrina Phillips, "Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
May 21, 2021
Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
May 21, 2021
Makis Solomos, "From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th and 21st-century Music" (Routledge, 2019)
May 21, 2021
Nicole Tersigni, "Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020)
May 20, 2021
Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)
May 20, 2021
David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
May 17, 2021
Stephanie Burt, "After Callimachus: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2020)
May 17, 2021
Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
May 13, 2021
William G. Acree, "Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
May 12, 2021
Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)
May 11, 2021
Christina Ward, "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" (Process, 2018)
May 10, 2021
Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 07, 2021
Lindsay Gardner, "Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection" (Workman, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
May 06, 2021
Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)
May 04, 2021
Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Nikki Lane, "The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Apr 29, 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
Bernadette Barton, "The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021
Joel Waldfogel, "Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2021
Bill Nowlin, "Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records" (Equinox, 2021)
Apr 20, 2021
Regina N. Bradley, "Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 19, 2021
Richard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Apr 16, 2021
Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021
Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2021
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021
Sibbie O'Sullivan, "My Private Lennon: Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)
Apr 09, 2021
Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Apr 08, 2021
R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 08, 2021
Amanda Ann Klein, "Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 05, 2021
Lucas Richert, "Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 05, 2021
Doug Bierend. "In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms" (Chelsea Green, 2021)
Apr 02, 2021
M. I. Devine, "Warhol's Mother's Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)
Apr 02, 2021
Tyler Sonnichsen, "Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Mar 29, 2021
Nate Chinen, "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" (Vintage, 2019)
Mar 26, 2021
Angela Firkus, "America's Early Women Celebrities: The Famous and Scorned from Martha Washington to Silent Film Star Mary Fuller" (McFarland, 2021)
Mar 23, 2021
Thomas C. Hubka, "How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Mar 19, 2021
Steven Blush, "Bustin' Balls: World Team Tennis 1974-1978, Pro Sports, Pop Culture and Progressive Politics" (Feral Press, 2020)
Mar 18, 2021
Karen Jones, "Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane" (Yale UP, 2020)
Mar 08, 2021
Evan Friss, "The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Mar 05, 2021
Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Perish" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 04, 2021
Stephanie Russo, "The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Mar 01, 2021
Evan Rapport, "Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Mar 01, 2021
Candacy Taylor, "Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America" (Abrams Press, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
Enrico Bonadio, "Protecting Art in the Street: A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti" (Dokument Forlag, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
Robert L. Stone, "Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community" (U of Mississippi Press, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021
Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Feb 19, 2021
Emily Willingham, "Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis" (Avery, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021
Meenakshi Gigi Durham, "MeToo: How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All" (Polity, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021
Howard Sherman, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021
Jeremy Black, "A History of the 20th Century: Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'roll" (Sirius Entertainment, 2021)
Feb 12, 2021
Paul O. Jenkins, "Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World" (West Virginia UP, 2020)
Feb 11, 2021
R. Roberts and J. Smith, "War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War" (Basic Books, 2020)
Feb 09, 2021
Kimberly Mack, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White" (U Mass Press, 2020)
Feb 05, 2021
Barbara Black, "Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
Feb 02, 2021
Sabrina Mittermeier, "A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms" (Intellect, 2020)
Jan 29, 2021
J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2021
David C. Lane, "Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021
Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021
Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 08, 2021
Daniel Horowitz, "Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jan 08, 2021
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Jennifer Burek Pierce, "Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
Jan 05, 2021
Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein" (Daisy H. Productions, 2020)
Jan 04, 2021
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Kyle Riismandel, "Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Pete Croatto, "From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA" (Atria Books, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
R. Garofalo, E. T. Allen, A. Snyder, "Honk!: A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism" (Routledge, 2019)
Dec 21, 2020
Laurent Fintoni, "Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century" (Velocity Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Sharon Marcus, "The Drama of Celebrity" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Dec 15, 2020
Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Dec 14, 2020
Jack Zipes on Life as a Folklorist, Folklore Studies and Publishing Fairy Tales
Dec 14, 2020
N. Mclaughlin and J. Braniff, "How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in The 1960s" (Intellect, 2020)
Dec 14, 2020
Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work" (Zone Books, 2020)
Dec 11, 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
D. G. Young, "Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 27, 2020
Travis Vogan, "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television" (U California Press, 2018)
Nov 25, 2020
Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)
Nov 19, 2020
Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
Nov 18, 2020
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century" (MIT Press, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 10, 2020
Billy Coleman, "Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788-1865" (UNC Press, 2020)
Nov 06, 2020
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical", 2nd edition (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
Neil Shister, "Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World" (Counterpoint, 2019)
Oct 26, 2020
Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Simone C. Drake, "Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Duke UP, 2020)
Oct 22, 2020
Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
Barbara Keys, "The Ideal of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Oct 16, 2020
Paul Howe, "Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020
John Locke, "Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by Margie Harris" (Off-Trail Publications, 2011)
Oct 13, 2020
Joel Miller, "Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I made a Great Cup of Tea…" (2020)
Oct 13, 2020
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Glenn Kenny, "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas" (Hanover Square, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020
Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Sep 22, 2020
Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Sep 21, 2020
Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce and Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Sep 18, 2020
Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque" (UP Colorado, 2017)
Sep 17, 2020
Jessica Pierce, "Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Sep 14, 2020
Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Sep 10, 2020
Isabella Cosse, "Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic" (Duke UP, 2019)
Sep 08, 2020
Stooges Brass Band, "Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
Sep 07, 2020
Judith Mair, "The Routledge Handbook of Festivals" (Routledge, 2018)
Sep 07, 2020
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultural Economy" (Routledge, 2018)
Sep 04, 2020
M. Hinds and J. Silverman, "Johnny Cash International: How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
Sep 02, 2020
Dana Renga, "Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television: Gomorrah and Beyond" (Palgrave MacMillan, 20
Aug 26, 2020
Elspeth H. Brown, "Work! A Queer History of Modelling" (Duke UP, 2019)
Aug 20, 2020
Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation" (Beacon, 2019)
Aug 19, 2020
Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Aug 13, 2020
Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
Aug 11, 2020
Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920" (LSU Press, 2017)
Aug 10, 2020
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence" (Duke UP, 2020)
Aug 07, 2020
Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Aug 05, 2020
Caridad Svich, "Mitchell and Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (Routledge, 2019
Aug 03, 2020
Martin James, "State of Base: The Origins of Jungle/Drum and Bass" (Velocity Press, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020
Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and The Battles of Lev Gleason" (Chapterhouse Publishing, 2020)
Jul 30, 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
Junior Tomlin, "Junior Tomlin: Flyer and Cover Art" (Velocity Press, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020
Thomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter" (UMass Press, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020
Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Jul 24, 2020
Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020
Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 16, 2020
Christopher Bonanos, "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous" (Henry Holt, 2018)
Jul 10, 2020
Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem Tree Press, 2020)
Jul 09, 2020
Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jul 06, 2020
Grace Elizabeth Hale, "Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 03, 2020
Kennan Ferguson, "Cookbooks Politics" (U Penn Press, 2020)
Jul 01, 2020
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2020
Scott Laderman, "Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing" (U California Press, 2014)
Jun 19, 2020
Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jun 18, 2020
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 17, 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
Kenneth Womack, "Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jun 04, 2020
Dale Cockrell, "Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917" (Norton, 2019)
Jun 02, 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
E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)
May 25, 2020
Ashley Mears, "Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit" (Princeton UP, 2020)
May 22, 2020
Nick Prior, "Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society" (SAGE, 2018)
May 18, 2020
Stacy Wolf, "Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 18, 2020
Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports" (Temple UP, 2020)
May 07, 2020
J. Packer and E. Stoneman, "A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2019)
May 06, 2020
Tyler Bickford, "Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture" (Duke UP, 2020)
May 05, 2020
James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided America" (Penguin, 2020)
Apr 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Apr 24, 2020
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Apr 24, 2020
Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020
Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)
Apr 10, 2020
Margaret Hillenbrand, "Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2020)
Apr 02, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Joseph Reagle, "Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents" (MIT Press, 2019)
Mar 26, 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
Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2020
B. J. Hollars, "Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Mar 13, 2020
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
Mar 10, 2020
M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, "Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit’s r/gaming Community" (Palgrave, 2019)
Mar 09, 2020
Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)
Mar 03, 2020
Lynn Neal, "Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America" (NYU Press, 2019)
Mar 03, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Feb 21, 2020
Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Feb 11, 2020
Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)
Feb 07, 2020
Kyle Devine, "Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music" (MIT Press, 2019)
Feb 05, 2020
Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Feb 04, 2020
Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Jan 31, 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
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
Jan 20, 2020
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 13, 2020
Hillary Reinsberg, "Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants: Special 40th Anniversary Edition" (Zagat, 2019)
Jan 06, 2020
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2019
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
Dec 17, 2019
Joshua Sperber, "Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace" (Lexington, 2019)
Dec 16, 2019
Gabe Logan, "The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939" (Lexington Books, 2019)
Dec 12, 2019
Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)
Dec 12, 2019
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Dec 10, 2019
Alexandra D'Arcy, "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE" (John Benjamins, 2017)
Dec 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Ann K. McClellan, "Sherlock’s World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC’s Sherlock" (U Iowa Press, 2018)
Nov 26, 2019
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Nov 21, 2019
Mark Alizart, "Dogs" (Polity, 2019)
Nov 18, 2019
Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Nov 14, 2019
Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy" (Gylphi, 2019)
Nov 08, 2019
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music" (Duke 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
Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polity, 2019)
Oct 25, 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
Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sport" (U Nebraska, 2019)
Oct 18, 2019
Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Oct 11, 2019
Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)
Oct 11, 2019
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
Oct 03, 2019
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselves: How Food has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Sep 18, 2019
Emily Dufton, "Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America" (Basic Books, 2017)
Aug 30, 2019
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 29, 2019
Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019)
Aug 26, 2019
Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Aug 13, 2019
Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic" (Yale UP, 2019)
Aug 07, 2019
William Gibbons, "Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 06, 2019
Krishnendu Ray, "The Ethnic Restaurateur" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Jul 31, 2019
Howard Philips Smith, "Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Jul 30, 2019
David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thought, Settings and Issues" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Jul 29, 2019
Vicki Howard, "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Jul 24, 2019
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jul 22, 2019
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, "This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
Jul 19, 2019
Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music" (Dey St. Books, 2017)
Jul 17, 2019
Susan Brownell, "The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics" (U California Press, 2018)
Jul 15, 2019
Kerry Eggers, "Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball" (Sport Publishing, 2018)
Jul 11, 2019
Tanisha C. Ford, "Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion" (St. Martins Press, 2019)
Jul 10, 2019
Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
Jul 09, 2019
Diana Pasulka, "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 08, 2019
Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Global History" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Jul 03, 2019
M. D. Foster and J. A. Tolbert, "The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World" (Utah State UP, 2015)
Jul 02, 2019
Christopher Rea, "China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jul 01, 2019
Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties" (UNC Press, 2015)
Jun 26, 2019
Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Jun 26, 2019
Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World" (U Arkansas Press, 2019))
Jun 26, 2019
Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jun 25, 2019
Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison" (SABR, 2019)
Jun 25, 2019
Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, "Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture" (Amethyst Editions, 2019)
Jun 25, 2019
Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Jun 24, 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
Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (U California Press, 2018)
Jun 18, 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
E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jun 13, 2019
Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Jun 11, 2019
Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2017)
Jun 11, 2019
Jennifer Helgren, "American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Jun 04, 2019
John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
May 30, 2019
Mark D. White, "Batman and Ethics" (Wiley Blackwell, 2019)
May 24, 2019
Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 21, 2019
Jerry T. Watkins III, "Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism" (UP of Florida, 2018)
May 21, 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
Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, "Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection" (Indiana UP, 2018)
May 07, 2019
Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019
Vivi Lachs, "Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London, 1884-1914" (Wayne State UP, 2018)
Apr 25, 2019
Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Apr 16, 2019
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in North America" (U Illinois Press, 2017)
Apr 03, 2019
Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)
Apr 03, 2019
Ron Keurajian, "Baseball Hall of Fame Autographs: A Reference Guide" (McFarland, 2018)
Mar 26, 2019
Michael Mario Albrecht, "Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television" (Routledge, 2015)
Mar 26, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Claire Pamment, "Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Mar 15, 2019
Suk-Young Kim, "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Mar 13, 2019
Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 13, 2019
Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 08, 2019
Alexander Langlands, "Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts" (Norton, 2017)
Mar 04, 2019
Jeffrey D. Long, "Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific" (MDPI Books, 2019)
Mar 04, 2019
Bernadete Barton, "Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers" (NYU Press, 2017)
Feb 28, 2019
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data" (Routledge, 2018)
Feb 28, 2019
Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 27, 2019
Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema" (U Texas, 2018)
Feb 20, 2019
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Feb 12, 2019
Nathan Holmes, "Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Feb 11, 2019
Peter Hopsicker and Mark Dyreson, "A Half Century of Super Bowls: National and Global Perspectives on America's Grandest Spectacle" (Routledge, 2018)
Jan 31, 2019
David J. Puglia, "Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore 'Hon': The Folk in the City" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Jan 31, 2019
Katie Beswick, "Social Housing In Performance: The English Council Estate On and Off Stage" (Methuen Drama, 2018)
Jan 22, 2019
Tim Mohr, "Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Algonquin Books, 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
Katherine K. Preston, "Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 21, 2018
Margot Finn, "Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Dec 20, 2018
Victoria Cann, "Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures" (I.B.Tauris, 2018)
Dec 18, 2018
Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Dec 18, 2018
Patrick B. Mullen, "Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Dec 14, 2018
Sarah Banet-Weiser, "Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny" (Duke UP, 2018)
Dec 10, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian and Tully Barnett, "What Matters?: Talking Value in Australian Culture" (Monash UP, 2018)
Dec 06, 2018
John C. Hajduk, "Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Dec 03, 2018
David Charles Sloane, "Is the Cemetery Dead?" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Nov 28, 2018
Jack David Eller, “Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo” (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Nov 19, 2018
Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women” (Mango Publishing Group, 2018)
Nov 16, 2018
Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television” (Reaktion Press, 2017)
Nov 08, 2018
Cairns Craig, “The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence” (Edinburgh UP, 2018)
Nov 08, 2018
R. C. Romano and C. B. Potter, “Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past” (Rutgers UP,
Nov 07, 2018
Raymond Boyle, “The Talent Industry: Television, Cultural Intermediaries and New Digital Pathways” (Palgrave, 2018)
Nov 06, 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
James S. Bielo, “Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park” (NYU Press, 2018)
Oct 24, 2018
Melissa Terras, “Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Oct 23, 2018
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, “Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy” (U California Press, 2017)
Oct 19, 2018
Jeffrey Kahan, “Shakespeare and Superheroes” (ARC Humanities Press, 2018)
Oct 18, 2018
Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, “The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 12, 2018
Tim Jelfs, “The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism” (West Virginia UP, 2018)
Oct 12, 2018
Deborah Jaramillo, “The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry” (U Texas Press, 2018)
Oct 09, 2018
Jonathan Waterlow, “It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life Under Stalin (1928-1941)” (CreateSpace, 2018)
Oct 04, 2018
Joel R. Pruce, “The Mass Appeal of Human Rights” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Oct 03, 2018
Stephen Lee Naish, “Riffs & Meaning: Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy” (Headpress, 2018)
Sep 11, 2018
Tessa Fontaine, “The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts” (FSG, 2018)
Aug 27, 2018
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of ‘Thelma & Louise’ Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin, 2018)
Aug 23, 2018
Jo Weldon, “Fierce: The History of Leopard Print” (Harper Design, 2018)
Jul 31, 2018
Megan Condis, “Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Battle for Online Culture” (U Iowa Press, 2018)
Jul 25, 2018
Ben Blackwell, “The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color” (Third Man Books, 2017)
Jul 25, 2018
Richard Ivan Jobs, “Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 24, 2018
madison moore, “Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric” (Yale UP, 2018)
Jul 23, 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
Adrienne Rose Bitar, “Diet and the Disease of Civilization” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Jul 17, 2018
Phil Proctor and Brad Shreiber, “Where’s my Fortune Cookie?” (Blurb, 2017)
Jul 13, 2018
Rebekah J. Buchanan, “Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics” (Peter Lang, 2018)
Jul 09, 2018
Gary Bruce, “Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 09, 2018
M. L. Liebler, “Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond” (Wayne State UP, 2016)
Jul 06, 2018
M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, “History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s” (UNC Press, 2017)
Jul 02, 2018
Natalie Robins, “The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Jun 22, 2018
Sandra Jean Graham, “Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Jun 12, 2018
Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)
Jun 12, 2018
James Cook, “Memory Songs: A Personal Journey into the Music that Shaped the 90s” (Unbound, 2018)
Jun 07, 2018
Charles Hughes, “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South” (UNC Press, 2015)
Jun 06, 2018
Michael Ramirez, “Destined for Greatness: Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
May 18, 2018
Peter Hoar, “The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940” (Otago University Press, 2018)
May 18, 2018
Gillian M. Rodger, “Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
May 16, 2018
Discussion with Dahlia Schweitzer (“Going Viral”) and Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”)
May 15, 2018
Sophia Rose Arjana, “Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture” (Lexington Books, 2017)
May 14, 2018
Gregory Snyder, “Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding” (NYU Press, 2017)
May 14, 2018
Jesse Berrett, “Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
May 09, 2018
Mark A. McCutcheon, “The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology” (Athabasca UP, 2018)
May 03, 2018
Emilie Lucchesi, “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz-Age Chicago” (Chicago Review, 2017)
May 02, 2018
Mark Liechty, “Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal” (U of Chicago Press, 2017)
May 01, 2018
Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
Apr 27, 2018
Bhoomi Thakore, “South Asians on the U.S. Screen: Just Like Everyone Else?” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Apr 26, 2018
John Gennari, “Flavor and Soul: Italian America and Its African American Edge” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Apr 25, 2018
Imani Perry, “May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem” (UNC Press, 2018)
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
Joseph Esposito, “Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House” (ForeEdge, 2018)
Apr 11, 2018
Carolyn Day, “Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Apr 10, 2018
Anamik Saha, “Race and the Cultural Industries” (Polity, 2018)
Apr 09, 2018
Dahlia Schweitzer, “Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Mar 29, 2018
Alex Wade, “Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Mar 23, 2018
Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
Mar 09, 2018
David Weinstein, “The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics” (Brandeis UP, 2017)
Mar 05, 2018
Andrew Friedman, “Chefs, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Ecco Press, 2018)
Mar 05, 2018
Jon Kraszewski, “Reality TV” (Routledge, 2017)
Mar 01, 2018
Jennifer Frost, “Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism and the Cold War” (UP of Kansas, 2017)
Feb 21, 2018
Christopher Grobe, “The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV” (NYU Press, 2017)
Feb 16, 2018
Douglas W. Shadle, “Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Feb 13, 2018
Carla M. Wilson, “Curious Impossibilities: Ten Cinematic Riffs” (Black Scat Books, 2017)
Feb 12, 2018
Kevin Patrick, “The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero” (U Iowa Press, 2017)
Feb 02, 2018
Zach Sands, “Film Comedy and the American Dream” (Routledge, 2017)
Jan 25, 2018
Benjamin Teitelbaum, “Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 24, 2018
Franz Rickaby, et al., “Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
Jan 10, 2018
Andrew McKevitt, “Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America” (UNC Press, 2017)
Jan 08, 2018
Elizabeth Bucar, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2017
Paul Hensler, “The New Boys of Summer: Baseball’s Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Dec 21, 2017
Alfie Bown, “The Playstation Dreamworld” (Polity, 2017)
Dec 20, 2017
Jonathan W. White, “Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War” (UNC Press, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
Brett L. Abrams, “Terry Bradshaw: From Super Bowl Champion to Television Personality” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, “Personal Stereo” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Dec 12, 2017
Bob Batchelor, “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Dec 12, 2017
Mark Fleischman, “Inside Studio 54” (Rare Bird Books, 2017)
Dec 08, 2017
Kinneret Lahad, “A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time” (Manchester UP, 2017)
Dec 05, 2017
Jenny Natasha and Tom Boniface-Webb, “I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop” (Valley Press, 2017)
Nov 30, 2017
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
Nov 27, 2017
Richard Power Sayeed, “1997: The Future that Never Happened (Zed Books, 2017)
Nov 25, 2017
Ian Brodie, “A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy” (UP of Mississippi, 2014).
Nov 20, 2017
Kathryn Lofton, “Consuming Religion” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Nov 20, 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
Adam J. Criblez, “Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Nov 16, 2017
Jessica M. Fishman, “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead” (NYU Press, 2017)
Nov 14, 2017
Matthew S. Rindge, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream” (Baylor UP, 2016)
Nov 10, 2017
Daniel Kane, “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Nov 02, 2017
Joel Dinerstein, “The Origins of Cool in Postwar America” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Oct 31, 2017
Julia Fawcett, “Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
Oct 09, 2017
Deborah Parker and Mark L. Parker, “Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy” (U. of Virginia Press, 2017)
Oct 03, 2017
Linda Simon, “Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper” (Reaktion Books, 2017)
Oct 02, 2017
Deanne Stillman, “Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill” (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
Sep 25, 2017
Stephen Pimpare, “Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 25, 2017
Shaun Scott, “Millennials and the Moments that Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present” (Zero Books, 2018)
Sep 18, 2017
Noel Brown, “The Children’s Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative” (Wallflower Press, 2017)
Aug 19, 2017
Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, “Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting an Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror” (Lexington Books, 2010)
Aug 16, 2017
Patty Farmer, “Starring the Plaza: Hollywood, Broadway, and High Society Visit the World’s Favorite Hotel” (Beaufort Books, 2017)
Aug 14, 2017
Fiona Helmsley, “Girls Gone Old” (We Heard You Like Books, 2017)
Aug 12, 2017
Tanya Ann Kennedy, “Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture” (SUNY Press, 2017)
Aug 06, 2017
Don Nunley with Marshall Terrill, “Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror” (Dalton Watson, 2017)
Aug 02, 2017
Sophie Egan, “Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are” (William Morrow, 2017)
Jul 24, 2017
Ira Dworkin, “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State” (UNC Press, 2017)
Jul 20, 2017
Patty Farmer, “Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy” (Beaufort Books, 2017)
Jul 16, 2017
Franz Nicolay, “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar” (The New Press, 2016)
Jul 12, 2017
David Kushner, “Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D” (Nation Books, 2017)
Jun 23, 2017
Danny Goldberg, “In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea” (Akashic Books, 2017)
Jun 23, 2017
William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jun 20, 2017
Michael Witwer, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Jun 19, 2017
Andre Sirois, “Hip-Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization” (Peter Lang, 2016)
Jun 13, 2017
Paul Youngquist, “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism” (U. Texas Press, 2016)
May 27, 2017
David M. Ewalt, “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and The People Who Play It” (Scribner, 2013)
May 26, 2017
Stanley Corkin, “Connecting the Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore” (U. Texas Press, 2017)
May 16, 2017
Stephen Lee Naish, “Deconstructing Dirty Dancing” (Zero Books, 2017)
May 16, 2017
Jennifer Le Zotte, “From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies” (UNC Press, 2017)
May 15, 2017
Kate Daloz, “We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on a Quest for a New America” (PublicAffairs, 2016)
May 14, 2017
Maya Barzilai, “Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters” (NYU Press, 2016)
May 01, 2017
Kathleen Collins, “Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Apr 22, 2017
James A. Cosby, “Devil’s Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll” (McFarland, 2016)
Apr 18, 2017
Anna Harwell Celenza, “Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Apr 10, 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
Karl Baden, “The Americans by Car” (Retroactive Press, 2016)
Mar 25, 2017
Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)
Mar 21, 2017
Christopher Pizzino, “Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature” (U of Texas Press, 2016)
Mar 19, 2017
Gleb Tsipursky, “Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Mar 14, 2017
Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Mar 14, 2017
Mark Braude, “Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)
Mar 09, 2017
Damion Searls, “The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing” (Crown, 2017)
Mar 07, 2017
Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)
Mar 03, 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
Melissa Hidalgo, “Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands” (Headpress, 2016)
Feb 13, 2017
Richard Etulain, “The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2014)
Feb 06, 2017
Mitchel Roth, “Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo” (U. North Texas Press, 2016)
Feb 01, 2017
James A. Davidson, “Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude” (McFarland, 2016)
Jan 24, 2017
Anthony Lioi, “Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Jan 20, 2017
Kevin Smokler, “Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies” (Rare Bird Books, 2016)
Jan 18, 2017
Helen Rappaport, “Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen” (Harper Design, 2017)
Jan 10, 2017
Ben Westhhoff, “Original Gangtas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap” (Hachette, 2016)
Jan 09, 2017
Carroll Pursell, “From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Dec 29, 2016
Matt Houlbrook, “Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook” (U. of Chicago Press 2016)
Dec 19, 2016
Gail Ashton, ed. “Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015/2017)
Dec 14, 2016
Brian Eugenio Herrera, “Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance” (U. Michigan Press, 2015)
Dec 10, 2016
Scott Bruce, ed., “The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters” (Penguin, 2016)
Nov 28, 2016
Leon Wildes, “John Lennon vs The U.S.A.: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History” (Ankerwycke, 2016)
Nov 21, 2016
Kirsty Sedgman, “Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales” (Intellect Books 2016)
Nov 19, 2016
Claudia Kalb, “Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Mind of History’s Great Personalities” (Natl Geographic, 2016)
Oct 27, 2016
Jonathan Lethem, “A Gambler’s Anatomy” (Doubleday, 2016)
Oct 21, 2016
Jack Hamilton, “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Oct 11, 2016
Alisa Solomon, “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof” (Metropolitan, 2013)
Oct 03, 2016
David Ensminger, “The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Sep 30, 2016
Sali Tagliamonte, “Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016
Jade Doskow, “Lost Utopias” (Black Dog Publishing, 2016)
Sep 21, 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
David M. Krueger, “Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Sep 13, 2016
Andrew Schulman, “Waking the Spirit: A Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul (Picador 2016)
Sep 08, 2016
Robert K. Elder, et. al. “Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park” (Kent State UP, 2016)
Aug 29, 2016
Jean Chalaby, “The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution” (Polity, 2015)
Aug 29, 2016
John Jodzio, “Knock Out” (Soft Skull Press, 2016)
Aug 27, 2016
Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)
Aug 24, 2016
Jennifier Keishin Armstrong, “Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)
Aug 13, 2016
Michelle Cruz Gonzales, “The Spitboy Rule: Tales of Xicana in a Female Punk Band” (PM Press, 2016)
Aug 12, 2016
Sue Matheson, “The Westerns and War Films of John Ford” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Jul 21, 2016
Bert Ashe, “Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles” (Agate Bolden, 2015)
Jun 23, 2016
Ed Berlin, “King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jun 15, 2016
John Brian King, “Nude Reagan” (Spurl Editions, 2016)
Jun 13, 2016
Yago Colas, “Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball” (Temple University Press, 2016)
Jun 08, 2016
Cass Sunstein, “The World According to Star Wars” (Harper Collins, 2016)
May 28, 2016
Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015)
May 23, 2016
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
May 20, 2016
Joshua Braun, “This Program is Brought to You By . . . Distributing Television Online” (Yale UP, 2015)
May 07, 2016
Brian James DeMare, “Mao’s Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in Chinas Rural Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
May 02, 2016
Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War” (U of Massachusetts Press, 2015)
Apr 30, 2016
Roger Horowitz, “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Apr 21, 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
Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 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
Roshanak Kheshti, “Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music” (NYU Press, 2015)
Apr 01, 2016
Adam Kucharski, “The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling” (Basic Books, 2016)
Mar 31, 2016
Phillip Penix-Tadsen, “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America” (MIT Press, 2016)
Mar 14, 2016
J. Gondelman and J. Berkowitz, “You Blew It! An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life” (Penguin, 2015)
Mar 10, 2016
James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Mar 02, 2016
Alan Sepinwall, “The Revolution Was Televised” (Touchstone, 2015)
Feb 24, 2016
Maris Kreisman, “Slaughterhouse 90210: Where Great Books Meet Pop Culture” (Flatiron Books, 2015)
Jan 28, 2016
Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
Dec 17, 2015
Nahuel Ribke, “A Genre Approach to Celebrity Politics” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Nov 09, 2015
John McMillian, “Beatles vs. Stones” (Simon and Schuster, 2013)
Sep 14, 2015
Christina Dunbar-Hester, “Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism” (MIT Press, 2014)
Mar 25, 2015
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”
May 29, 2014
David Konow, “Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
Oct 17, 2013
Allen Salkin “From Scratch: Inside the Food Network” (Putnam, 2013)
Oct 05, 2013
Richie Unterberger, “Won’t Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia” (Jawbone, 2011)
Sep 20, 2013
Andrew P. Haley, "Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920" (UNC Press, 2011)
Sep 07, 2012
Jonathan Green, “Green’s Dictionary of Slang” (Hodder Education, 2010)
Jan 26, 2012
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, "Mexico's Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010" (U Colorado Press, 2010)
Oct 17, 2011
Sheree Homer, “Catch that Rockabilly Fever: Personal Stories of Life on the Road and in the Studio” (McFarland, 2010)
Jun 14, 2011
Peter Filichia, “Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season 1959-2009” (Applause, 2010)
May 27, 2011