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Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 14 mins; October 25, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
71 hours 24 mins; October 21, 2022
Wolverines!
55 mins; October 19, 2022
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
61 hours 30 mins; October 18, 2022
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
70 hours 35 mins; October 17, 2022
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)
65 hours 30 mins; October 14, 2022
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
60 hours 36 mins; October 13, 2022
Bonus Episode: A Conversation about Past Episodes and Current Events
35 mins; October 12, 2022
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
60 hours 25 mins; October 11, 2022
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)
48 mins; October 07, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
67 hours 13 mins; October 06, 2022
The Two Russias
53 mins; October 05, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
76 hours 3 mins; October 04, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
65 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
56 mins; September 29, 2022
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; September 29, 2022
Cold War Homefront
62 hours 10 mins; September 28, 2022
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
62 hours 27 mins; September 23, 2022
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence" (Duke UP, 2020)
72 hours 44 mins; September 22, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
72 hours 45 mins; September 21, 2022
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
59 mins; September 21, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
57 mins; September 14, 2022
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
35 mins; September 12, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
55 mins; September 07, 2022
Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
82 hours 39 mins; September 01, 2022
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
45 mins; September 01, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
59 mins; August 31, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
77 hours 11 mins; August 26, 2022
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
67 hours 1 min; August 25, 2022
Reality TV
16 mins; August 23, 2022
87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
51 mins; August 17, 2022
Rebecca Weeks, "History by HBO: Televising the American Past" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
64 hours 59 mins; August 12, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
55 mins; August 10, 2022
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
72 hours 30 mins; August 08, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
42 mins; August 04, 2022
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
83 hours 24 mins; July 27, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
32 mins; July 21, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
42 mins; July 20, 2022
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Dey Street, 2022)
65 hours 15 mins; July 18, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
70 hours 35 mins; July 08, 2022
Squid Game
12 mins; July 06, 2022
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
64 hours 58 mins; July 04, 2022
Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
55 mins; July 01, 2022
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
81 hours 24 mins; June 30, 2022
Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; June 21, 2022
Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
46 mins; June 20, 2022
Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
71 hours 1 min; June 15, 2022
Melissa Vosen Callens, "Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in 'Stranger Things' and 1980s Film" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
39 mins; June 09, 2022
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 14 mins; June 08, 2022
Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
64 hours 28 mins; June 07, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana GĂłmez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 35 mins; June 07, 2022
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
55 mins; June 06, 2022
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
39 mins; June 06, 2022
Ryan Watson, "Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age" (Indiana UP, 2021)
54 mins; June 06, 2022
Daniel Fairfax, "The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
77 hours 48 mins; June 03, 2022
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)
59 mins; June 01, 2022
Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
68 hours 49 mins; May 30, 2022
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
197 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
65 hours 24 mins; May 10, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 49 mins; May 04, 2022
Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
54 mins; April 27, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
72 hours 47 mins; April 27, 2022
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
55 mins; April 20, 2022
Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
51 mins; April 08, 2022
Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
56 mins; April 04, 2022
Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)
55 mins; March 30, 2022
Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
35 mins; March 25, 2022
Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
72 hours 12 mins; March 23, 2022
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
86 hours 12 mins; March 16, 2022
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
52 mins; March 16, 2022
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
48 mins; March 11, 2022
Nadir Lahiji, "Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou" (Routledge, 2021)
26 mins; March 11, 2022
Dahlia Schweitzer, "Haunted Homes" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
50 mins; March 10, 2022
Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
54 mins; March 09, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
80 hours 32 mins; March 08, 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
41 mins; March 03, 2022
Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)
51 mins; February 24, 2022
David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
48 mins; February 24, 2022
Kathryn Millard, "Double Exposure: How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
57 mins; February 17, 2022
Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
58 mins; February 09, 2022
James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
69 hours 6 mins; February 08, 2022
Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
54 mins; February 08, 2022
Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, "Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
60 hours 54 mins; February 04, 2022
Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
48 mins; February 02, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
42 mins; February 01, 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
71 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2022
Henry K. Miller, "The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker" (U California Press, 2022)
66 hours 31 mins; January 25, 2022
Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
78 hours 49 mins; January 21, 2022
Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
55 mins; January 20, 2022
Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television" (Duke UP, 2021)
34 mins; January 18, 2022
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
53 mins; January 17, 2022
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
56 mins; January 13, 2022
Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
72 hours 34 mins; January 07, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
125 hours 28 mins; January 05, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
64 hours 6 mins; December 31, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
57 mins; December 30, 2021
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene" (Oxford UP, 2018)
110 hours 8 mins; December 27, 2021
Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
66 hours 42 mins; December 16, 2021
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
39 mins; December 15, 2021
Matthew H. Brown, "Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address" (Duke UP, 2021)
97 hours 33 mins; December 15, 2021
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