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Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, "Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 07, 2024
Kramer vs. Kramer
24 mins; October 07, 2024
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
66 hours 10 mins; October 03, 2024
As Good as It Gets
28 mins; September 30, 2024
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
68 hours 2 mins; September 29, 2024
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
73 hours 8 mins; September 22, 2024
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
57 mins; September 20, 2024
Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
64 hours 25 mins; September 18, 2024
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
58 mins; September 16, 2024
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 15 mins; September 14, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 13, 2024
Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
62 hours 28 mins; September 10, 2024
L. A. Confidential
29 mins; September 09, 2024
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
52 mins; September 03, 2024
For a Few Dollars More
29 mins; September 02, 2024
Christopher Brown, "Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
79 hours 47 mins; August 27, 2024
To Have and Have Not
19 mins; August 26, 2024
The Sounds of Silents
47 mins; August 19, 2024
Thief
23 mins; August 19, 2024
Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?
55 mins; August 19, 2024
Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
56 mins; August 18, 2024
Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
57 mins; August 14, 2024
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 13, 2024
Training Day
28 mins; August 12, 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)
61 hours 30 mins; August 12, 2024
Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 59 mins; August 08, 2024
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
58 mins; August 04, 2024
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 6 mins; August 03, 2024
Collateral
30 mins; July 29, 2024
Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
65 hours 10 mins; July 27, 2024
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
56 mins; July 26, 2024
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
74 hours 42 mins; July 26, 2024
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
58 mins; July 25, 2024
40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024
73 hours 35 mins; July 25, 2024
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 0 mins; July 23, 2024
The Graduate
28 mins; July 22, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
48 mins; July 19, 2024
Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
74 hours 51 mins; July 17, 2024
Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
55 mins; July 16, 2024
Auto Focus
26 mins; July 15, 2024
Pamela Hutchinson, "The Red Shoes" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
49 mins; July 14, 2024
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
45 mins; July 13, 2024
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
47 mins; July 12, 2024
William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
65 hours 40 mins; July 10, 2024
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
81 hours 40 mins; July 07, 2024
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; July 05, 2024
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
59 mins; July 02, 2024
Forbidden Planet
26 mins; July 01, 2024
Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 53 mins; June 27, 2024
Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 48 mins; June 26, 2024
Kim Nelson, "Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
27 mins; June 25, 2024
After Hours
22 mins; June 24, 2024
Slava Greenberg, "Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship" (Indiana UP, 2023)
60 hours 3 mins; June 21, 2024
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
48 mins; June 21, 2024
Bringing Out the Dead
23 mins; June 17, 2024
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, "Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
63 hours 6 mins; June 17, 2024
On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”
59 mins; June 14, 2024
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
64 hours 58 mins; June 14, 2024
Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
52 mins; June 04, 2024
American Movie
25 mins; June 03, 2024
Robert Phillip Kolker and Marsha Gordon, "Film, Form, and Culture" (Routledge, 2024)
58 mins; May 30, 2024
First Reformed
33 mins; May 13, 2024
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)
56 mins; May 10, 2024
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
73 hours 21 mins; May 08, 2024
Hobson’s Choice
31 mins; May 06, 2024
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
74 hours 59 mins; May 05, 2024
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; May 04, 2024
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 04, 2024
Kristi Irene McKim, "Rushmore" (British Film Institute, 2023)
83 hours 56 mins; May 03, 2024
Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)
69 hours 51 mins; May 03, 2024
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
46 mins; May 02, 2024
We Own the Night
21 mins; April 29, 2024
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
48 mins; April 24, 2024
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
66 hours 11 mins; April 24, 2024
Cat People
24 mins; April 22, 2024
Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
61 hours 18 mins; April 19, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
35 mins; April 17, 2024
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
36 mins; April 17, 2024
The Ladykillers
17 mins; April 15, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
30 mins; April 14, 2024
Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
70 hours 39 mins; April 12, 2024
Pan’s Labyrinth
21 mins; April 08, 2024
Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
49 mins; April 05, 2024
Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
58 mins; April 04, 2024
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
81 hours 46 mins; April 02, 2024
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
29 mins; March 25, 2024
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
59 mins; March 25, 2024
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
48 mins; March 21, 2024
Defending Your Life
23 mins; March 18, 2024
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; March 17, 2024
Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
48 mins; March 16, 2024
Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
60 hours 34 mins; March 15, 2024
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
101 hours 6 mins; March 12, 2024
Magic
26 mins; March 11, 2024
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
47 mins; March 08, 2024
Baby Face
17 mins; March 04, 2024
Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
49 mins; March 03, 2024
Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)
91 hours 52 mins; March 02, 2024
Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
61 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2024
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