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Love and Mercy
23 mins; July 07, 2025
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
34 mins; July 07, 2025
Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; July 05, 2025
Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?
46 mins; June 25, 2025
American Gangster
24 mins; June 23, 2025
Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025)
75 hours 58 mins; June 20, 2025
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
52 mins; June 11, 2025
Alison Griffiths, "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film" (Columbia UP, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; June 11, 2025
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
25 mins; June 03, 2025
Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
45 mins; May 31, 2025
Heist
22 mins; May 28, 2025
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
83 hours 23 mins; May 24, 2025
Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
50 mins; May 23, 2025
Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
49 mins; May 22, 2025
Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
68 hours 14 mins; May 21, 2025
From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
54 mins; May 19, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order
56 mins; May 18, 2025
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
55 mins; May 15, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline
67 hours 58 mins; May 13, 2025
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
66 hours 41 mins; May 13, 2025
The Fisher King
27 mins; May 12, 2025
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
55 mins; May 11, 2025
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
66 hours 10 mins; May 09, 2025
Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
40 mins; May 05, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information
53 mins; May 04, 2025
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
42 mins; May 03, 2025
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
61 hours 29 mins; May 01, 2025
Peeping Tom
34 mins; April 28, 2025
The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political
49 mins; April 26, 2025
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
69 hours 55 mins; April 25, 2025
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
46 mins; April 23, 2025
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
50 mins; April 22, 2025
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
58 mins; April 21, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
56 mins; April 20, 2025
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
73 hours 38 mins; April 19, 2025
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
66 hours 15 mins; April 11, 2025
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
47 mins; April 02, 2025
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
49 mins; April 01, 2025
The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana
50 mins; March 26, 2025
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 50 mins; March 25, 2025
Woman in the Dunes
32 mins; March 24, 2025
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
35 mins; March 24, 2025
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
65 hours 0 mins; March 14, 2025
Hye Seung Chung, "Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 11, 2025
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
32 mins; March 10, 2025
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; March 07, 2025
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
75 hours 56 mins; March 07, 2025
Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
55 mins; March 06, 2025
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
68 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
54 mins; March 04, 2025
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
43 mins; March 04, 2025
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
31 mins; March 03, 2025
Esha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; March 01, 2025
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
75 hours 38 mins; February 25, 2025
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
44 mins; February 25, 2025
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
31 mins; February 24, 2025
In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
73 hours 31 mins; February 22, 2025
Failed Passing
19 mins; February 12, 2025
American Made
29 mins; February 10, 2025
Parisa Vaziri, "Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
84 hours 0 mins; February 09, 2025
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
108 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2025
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
81 hours 8 mins; February 07, 2025
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
62 hours 43 mins; February 06, 2025
Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; February 05, 2025
James Fenwick, "Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
35 mins; February 01, 2025
A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
81 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2025
The Rainmaker
35 mins; January 27, 2025
What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
68 hours 8 mins; January 11, 2025
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
68 hours 11 mins; January 10, 2025
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
92 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
66 hours 57 mins; December 24, 2024
The Big Heat
29 mins; December 23, 2024
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
68 hours 22 mins; December 22, 2024
Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
50 mins; December 22, 2024
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
112 hours 31 mins; December 21, 2024
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
52 mins; December 08, 2024
Scott Anthony, "The Story of British Propaganda Film" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
51 mins; December 07, 2024
Biopic
18 mins; December 01, 2024
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
54 mins; November 30, 2024
Chris Berry et al., "Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
43 mins; November 27, 2024
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 23, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
44 mins; November 21, 2024
A Serious Man
38 mins; November 17, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
66 hours 2 mins; November 16, 2024
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
36 mins; November 16, 2024
Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)
29 mins; November 14, 2024
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 43 mins; November 14, 2024
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
56 mins; November 12, 2024
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
81 hours 47 mins; November 12, 2024
True Believer
26 mins; November 11, 2024
Daniela Berghahn, "Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
38 mins; November 09, 2024
Blow Out
25 mins; November 04, 2024
The Fly
24 mins; October 28, 2024
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 37 mins; October 26, 2024
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
37 mins; October 20, 2024
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
66 hours 52 mins; October 19, 2024
Out of Sight
22 mins; October 14, 2024
Slavery and Film, Creativity and Academia, and Is Slavery a Good Metaphor for AI?
46 mins; October 12, 2024
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
63 hours 55 mins; October 10, 2024
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
64 hours 53 mins; October 08, 2024
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