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Conan the Barbarian
29 mins; February 26, 2024
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
24 mins; February 19, 2024
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)
57 mins; February 14, 2024
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
52 mins; February 14, 2024
The Hunting Trilogy
21 mins; February 12, 2024
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
94 hours 28 mins; February 06, 2024
Limelight
29 mins; February 05, 2024
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
56 mins; February 04, 2024
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
66 hours 2 mins; January 30, 2024
Anatomy of a Fall
33 mins; January 29, 2024
Ridley Scott's "Napoleon": A Historian's Review
22 mins; January 28, 2024
Bliss Cua Lim, "The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema" (Duke UP, 2024)
53 mins; January 24, 2024
My Best Fiend
27 mins; January 22, 2024
"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson (with Jonathon Fessenden)
64 hours 31 mins; January 18, 2024
Eyes Wide Shut
38 mins; January 15, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
59 mins; January 13, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
63 hours 47 mins; January 09, 2024
The Omen
28 mins; January 08, 2024
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
59 mins; January 08, 2024
Plot
18 mins; January 04, 2024
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
58 mins; January 03, 2024
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
75 hours 32 mins; January 01, 2024
Meet John Doe
31 mins; January 01, 2024
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
59 mins; December 28, 2023
The Sting
21 mins; December 25, 2023
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
67 hours 49 mins; December 25, 2023
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
79 hours 16 mins; December 24, 2023
Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
67 hours 43 mins; December 24, 2023
Nate Patrin, "The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
52 mins; December 23, 2023
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
33 mins; December 22, 2023
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
51 mins; December 20, 2023
Donnie Darko
31 mins; December 18, 2023
Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
47 mins; December 16, 2023
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
37 mins; December 11, 2023
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
34 mins; December 11, 2023
This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
88 hours 25 mins; December 08, 2023
Wild Strawberries
33 mins; December 04, 2023
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
80 hours 59 mins; December 02, 2023
I Know Where I’m Going!
21 mins; November 27, 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
45 mins; November 25, 2023
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
56 mins; November 24, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
35 mins; November 23, 2023
Spirited Away
21 mins; November 21, 2023
Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
64 hours 17 mins; November 18, 2023
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
82 hours 2 mins; November 15, 2023
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 15, 2023
Minority Report
22 mins; November 13, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
81 hours 31 mins; November 11, 2023
What Reality TV Says About Us
44 mins; November 08, 2023
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
77 hours 31 mins; November 07, 2023
Point Blank
39 mins; November 06, 2023
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; November 02, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
55 mins; October 31, 2023
Babette’s Feast
23 mins; October 30, 2023
Stephen B. Armstrong, "I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
68 hours 38 mins; October 27, 2023
Big Night
21 mins; October 23, 2023
Cutter’s Way
25 mins; October 16, 2023
Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
62 hours 18 mins; October 15, 2023
Paul Crenshaw, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
69 hours 54 mins; October 12, 2023
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
42 mins; October 11, 2023
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
59 mins; October 10, 2023
Lost in America
21 mins; October 09, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
52 mins; October 07, 2023
The Vanishing
24 mins; October 02, 2023
Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38 mins; October 01, 2023
Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 27, 2023
Rope
21 mins; September 25, 2023
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
48 mins; September 23, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
50 mins; September 21, 2023
Sorcerer
30 mins; September 19, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
71 hours 12 mins; September 12, 2023
The Blues Brothers
18 mins; September 11, 2023
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
67 hours 23 mins; September 11, 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
33 mins; September 09, 2023
Caveh Zahedi, "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi" (Factory 25, 2015)
27 mins; September 06, 2023
The Wages of Fear
27 mins; September 04, 2023
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
61 hours 54 mins; September 02, 2023
In a Lonely Place
21 mins; August 28, 2023
Beth Tsai, "Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
58 mins; August 28, 2023
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
108 hours 12 mins; August 27, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
55 mins; August 25, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
62 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2023
The French Connection
21 mins; August 21, 2023
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
72 hours 32 mins; August 15, 2023
California Split
26 mins; August 14, 2023
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
51 mins; August 09, 2023
Raging Bull
34 mins; August 07, 2023
The Fourth Wise Man (with Jonathon Fessenden)
53 mins; August 04, 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
18 mins; August 03, 2023
Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film" (U California Press, 2023)
59 mins; August 02, 2023
The Great Dictator
23 mins; July 31, 2023
Film Chat: Hsin-Chien Huang on VR Film in Taiwan
36 mins; July 30, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
55 mins; July 26, 2023
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
19 mins; July 24, 2023
Bombay Talkies
19 mins; July 20, 2023
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
14 mins; July 20, 2023
Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
86 hours 31 mins; July 19, 2023
Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)
81 hours 58 mins; July 18, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 17, 2023
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