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Michael Mann Reconsidered: Heat and Collateral
40 mins; April 01, 2026
Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the LumiĂšre Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)
35 mins; March 29, 2026
Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ali and The Last of the Mohicans
30 mins; March 27, 2026
Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ferrari and Manhunter
29 mins; March 22, 2026
Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)
70 hours 16 mins; March 21, 2026
Karen McNally ed., "Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
63 hours 21 mins; March 18, 2026
Michael Mann Reconsidered: Thief and The Insider
28 mins; March 17, 2026
A Star Is Born (1937)
25 mins; March 16, 2026
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)
69 hours 27 mins; March 10, 2026
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmmaker Q&A
61 hours 58 mins; March 07, 2026
Rachel Walther, "Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon" (Headpress, 2026)
52 mins; March 05, 2026
Boiling Point
24 mins; March 02, 2026
Michael Glover Smith, "Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think" (McNidder and Grace, 2026)
78 hours 12 mins; February 28, 2026
Veronique Boone, "Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann" (BirkhaĂŒser, 2024)
31 mins; February 27, 2026
Santiago Fouz-HernĂĄndez, "The Films of Bigas Luna" (Manchester UP, 2025)
73 hours 48 mins; February 20, 2026
The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy
48 mins; February 19, 2026
Darién J. Davis, "'Black Orpheus' and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
55 mins; February 18, 2026
Robert P. Kolker and David Wyatt, "The Film Auteur: Angles of Vision" (Routledge, 2026)
55 mins; February 17, 2026
His Girl Friday
27 mins; February 16, 2026
Dan Hassler-Forest, "Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
49 mins; February 14, 2026
Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)
58 mins; February 13, 2026
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
91 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2026
Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)
63 hours 48 mins; February 05, 2026
Robert Guffey, "Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos" (Headpress, 2026)
65 hours 13 mins; February 04, 2026
Twentieth Century
22 mins; February 02, 2026
Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)
70 hours 34 mins; January 30, 2026
163* The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
32 mins; January 29, 2026
Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: ï»żï»żBlack Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)
105 hours 56 mins; January 29, 2026
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; January 26, 2026
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
57 mins; January 24, 2026
Min Joo Lee, "Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
30 mins; January 18, 2026
Alvin K. Wong, "Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone" (Duke UP, 2025)
69 hours 14 mins; January 13, 2026
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 28 mins; January 11, 2026
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; January 10, 2026
Barbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
76 hours 3 mins; January 08, 2026
Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz
88 hours 14 mins; January 06, 2026
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
60 hours 12 mins; January 05, 2026
Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!
65 hours 5 mins; January 04, 2026
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
55 mins; January 03, 2026
Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
53 mins; January 02, 2026
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
56 mins; December 31, 2025
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; December 30, 2025
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
46 mins; December 29, 2025
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; December 28, 2025
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
68 hours 48 mins; December 23, 2025
Patrick C. Fleming, "Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
37 mins; December 23, 2025
The Dead
29 mins; December 22, 2025
Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
63 hours 35 mins; December 14, 2025
Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)
71 hours 48 mins; December 10, 2025
Wings of Desire
27 mins; December 08, 2025
161 One Battle After Another: A West Newton Cinema Discussion with Peter Coviello and Ethan Warren (JP)
33 mins; December 04, 2025
Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
40 mins; December 02, 2025
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
84 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2025
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
67 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2025
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 28, 2025
The Purple Rose of Cairo
20 mins; November 24, 2025
Dustin Condren, "An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film" (Cornell UP, 2024)
67 hours 57 mins; November 19, 2025
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
48 mins; November 17, 2025
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
61 hours 36 mins; November 16, 2025
Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything
28 mins; November 16, 2025
In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?
27 mins; November 10, 2025
The Beast
29 mins; November 10, 2025
C. Yamini Krishna, "Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
49 mins; November 01, 2025
Jakub Gortat, "Remembering National Socialism in Austrian Post-war Film" (1945-1955) (Brill, 2025)
39 mins; October 29, 2025
Kubrick’s Worlds: Power, Paranoia, and the Politics of the Human Condition
90 hours 9 mins; October 28, 2025
The Trip
23 mins; October 27, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 23, 2025
Kathryn Robson, "Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
47 mins; October 22, 2025
Mia Yinxing Liu, "Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era" (U Hawai’i Press, 2019)
101 hours 37 mins; October 21, 2025
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 20, 2025
Petar Mitric, "The Co-production Landscape in Europe: From Eurimages to Netflix" (Springer Nature, 2025)
49 mins; October 15, 2025
Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J. Warren eds., "Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
33 mins; October 15, 2025
William Lempert, "Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
66 hours 11 mins; October 14, 2025
Miami Vice
32 mins; October 13, 2025
Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters
58 mins; September 29, 2025
History Is Made at Night
28 mins; September 29, 2025
Mark Archuleta, "The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again" (U North Texas Press, 2025)
39 mins; September 24, 2025
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 14 mins; September 22, 2025
Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
57 mins; September 20, 2025
The Straight Story
29 mins; September 15, 2025
Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 15, 2025
Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025)
43 mins; September 06, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry" (U California Press, 2025)
36 mins; September 02, 2025
Patricia Aufderheide, "Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy" (U California Press, 2024)
84 hours 21 mins; August 30, 2025
Excalibur
33 mins; August 25, 2025
Thomas Christian BĂ€chle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (ï»żBristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 17 mins; August 19, 2025
Prudence Peiffer, "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" (Harper, 2023)
50 mins; August 15, 2025
Alisha Mughal, "It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow" (ECW Press, 2025)
44 mins; August 13, 2025
JirĂ­ Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
61 hours 34 mins; August 12, 2025
Horror and Humanism in "28 Years Later"
68 hours 32 mins; August 11, 2025
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
62 hours 14 mins; August 09, 2025
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
39 mins; August 08, 2025
Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; August 07, 2025
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcock and His Imitators" (Oxford UP, 2020)
70 hours 41 mins; July 27, 2025
Moonstruck
26 mins; July 21, 2025
Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
35 mins; July 20, 2025
Karen Redrobe, "Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
62 hours 40 mins; July 16, 2025
Veronica Litt, "Ugh! As If!: Clueless" (ECW Press, 2025)
47 mins; July 16, 2025
Love and Mercy
23 mins; July 07, 2025
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