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The Matrix
22 mins; July 17, 2023
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
46 mins; July 08, 2023
Ball of Fire
19 mins; July 07, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
37 mins; July 06, 2023
Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2023
Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
48 mins; July 04, 2023
Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)
33 mins; July 04, 2023
Mulholland Drive
25 mins; July 03, 2023
Stella Dallas
20 mins; June 26, 2023
Sunset Blvd
22 mins; June 18, 2023
Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Alvaro Santana-Acuña, "Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
63 hours 44 mins; June 11, 2023
Elephant Man
21 mins; June 06, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
34 mins; June 05, 2023
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
45 mins; June 04, 2023
Black Film, British Cinema II
41 mins; May 25, 2023
Brad Krumholz, "Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
48 mins; May 24, 2023
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 22, 2023
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
42 mins; May 17, 2023
Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, "Secret Cinema and the Immersive Experience Industry" (Manchester UP, 2022)
49 mins; May 13, 2023
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
64 hours 24 mins; May 12, 2023
Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)
45 mins; May 09, 2023
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
95 hours 21 mins; May 02, 2023
Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
44 mins; April 20, 2023
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
52 mins; April 20, 2023
Dwayne Epstein, "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time" (Citadel Press, 2023)
51 mins; April 18, 2023
CinegogĂ­a: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
56 mins; April 14, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
60 hours 21 mins; April 13, 2023
John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
52 mins; April 12, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
44 mins; April 07, 2023
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
73 hours 58 mins; April 04, 2023
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
73 hours 38 mins; April 03, 2023
Suzanne Ferriss, "Lost in Translation" (British Film Institute, 2023)
45 mins; March 31, 2023
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
111 hours 4 mins; March 31, 2023
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
60 hours 3 mins; March 29, 2023
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
40 mins; March 28, 2023
Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
61 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2023
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
68 hours 24 mins; March 19, 2023
Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu
29 mins; March 14, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
38 mins; March 13, 2023
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
62 hours 52 mins; March 13, 2023
Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; March 12, 2023
Film Chat: Queer, Sci-Fi and the Family
38 mins; March 11, 2023
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2023
Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
56 mins; March 10, 2023
Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)
59 mins; March 10, 2023
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
55 mins; March 08, 2023
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
16 mins; March 07, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
32 mins; March 06, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies
16 mins; March 05, 2023
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
44 mins; March 04, 2023
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
45 mins; February 27, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
29 mins; February 27, 2023
Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
50 mins; February 23, 2023
Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
53 mins; February 22, 2023
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
45 mins; February 18, 2023
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
51 mins; February 14, 2023
Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
58 mins; February 10, 2023
Chris Kempshall, "The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; February 07, 2023
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
64 hours 40 mins; February 05, 2023
Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton
42 mins; February 02, 2023
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
62 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2023
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; January 20, 2023
The SĂĄmi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
30 mins; January 12, 2023
The SĂĄmi in "Frozen" (Part 1)
36 mins; January 11, 2023
The Fremen in "Dune"
51 mins; January 10, 2023
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
50 mins; January 09, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
46 mins; January 06, 2023
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
41 mins; January 03, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
25 mins; January 01, 2023
Catholic Movies, Part 1: "Silence" and "The Scarlet and the Black"
62 hours 41 mins; December 30, 2022
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
33 mins; December 28, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
23 mins; December 25, 2022
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; December 25, 2022
What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
41 mins; December 23, 2022
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
58 mins; December 23, 2022
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
87 hours 3 mins; December 21, 2022
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
75 hours 38 mins; December 20, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
55 mins; December 14, 2022
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
51 mins; December 10, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
64 hours 33 mins; December 10, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
50 mins; December 04, 2022
Craig Oldham, "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting" (Rough Trade Books, 2022)
52 mins; December 03, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
55 mins; November 25, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
86 hours 11 mins; November 24, 2022
Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
75 hours 1 min; November 24, 2022
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
44 mins; November 23, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
61 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2022
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
37 mins; November 22, 2022
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
65 hours 30 mins; November 22, 2022
Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
64 hours 5 mins; November 21, 2022
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
68 hours 18 mins; November 15, 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)
65 hours 54 mins; November 08, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
62 hours 28 mins; November 02, 2022
Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
94 hours 10 mins; November 02, 2022
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
62 hours 59 mins; October 28, 2022
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
28 mins; October 26, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
50 mins; October 26, 2022
Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
57 mins; October 26, 2022
Larry Ceplair, "The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
57 mins; October 26, 2022
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