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The Joker: How a “Typical Hoodlum” Character of the ‘40s Attained Cult Status Today
25 mins; July 29, 2020
Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age" (Routledge, 2020)
67 hours 2 mins; July 29, 2020
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
55 mins; July 24, 2020
Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
69 hours 53 mins; July 24, 2020
Greg Mitchell, "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (The New Press, 2020)
62 hours 17 mins; July 07, 2020
Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
48 mins; July 06, 2020
Kendra Preston Leonard, "Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism" (Humanities Commons, 2010)
54 mins; July 06, 2020
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
67 hours 4 mins; July 03, 2020
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
68 hours 12 mins; July 02, 2020
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 53 mins; June 24, 2020
Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
59 mins; June 22, 2020
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
69 hours 30 mins; June 22, 2020
Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
35 mins; June 18, 2020
Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
101 hours 31 mins; June 11, 2020
Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
71 hours 17 mins; June 08, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 18 mins; May 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)
90 hours 3 mins; April 15, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
56 mins; March 26, 2020
Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
57 mins; March 24, 2020
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; March 23, 2020
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame" (Indiana UP, 2019)
53 mins; March 20, 2020
Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)
52 mins; March 03, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
31 mins; January 24, 2020
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
59 mins; January 20, 2020
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
45 mins; January 13, 2020
SeĂĄn Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, 2019)
64 hours 53 mins; December 30, 2019
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
64 hours 22 mins; December 11, 2019
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
42 mins; December 10, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
30 mins; December 02, 2019
Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
68 hours 23 mins; November 12, 2019
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
43 mins; November 12, 2019
Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human" (Indiana UP, 2019)
65 hours 4 mins; November 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re-Imaging Gender in Wakanda" (WDL, 2019)
47 mins; October 28, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
29 mins; October 24, 2019
Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
56 mins; September 09, 2019
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
36 mins; August 29, 2019
Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
60 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2019
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
51 mins; August 12, 2019
Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
60 hours 42 mins; August 07, 2019
David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thought, Settings and Issues" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
53 mins; July 29, 2019
Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
45 mins; July 11, 2019
Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas" (Duke UP, 2019)
94 hours 32 mins; July 11, 2019
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
67 hours 46 mins; June 21, 2019
Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)
87 hours 11 mins; June 19, 2019
Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
59 mins; June 18, 2019
Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties" (U Missouri Press, 2019)
52 mins; June 14, 2019
Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
67 hours 10 mins; June 11, 2019
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
59 mins; June 07, 2019
Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History" (Duke UP, 2018)
60 hours 55 mins; May 23, 2019
Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
75 hours 27 mins; May 13, 2019
Nicholas Baer et al. "Unwatchable" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
61 hours 0 mins; May 09, 2019
Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The United States Constitution in Film: Part of Our National Culture" (Lexington Books, 2018)
66 hours 48 mins; April 30, 2019
Michael Benson, "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark and The Making of a Masterpiece" (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
38 mins; April 29, 2019
Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II" (GoodKnight Books, 2019)
58 mins; April 16, 2019
Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)
45 mins; April 03, 2019
Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
52 mins; March 21, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes" (Columbia UP, 2018)
70 hours 25 mins; March 05, 2019
Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema" (U Texas, 2018)
55 mins; February 20, 2019
Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press, 2018)
66 hours 30 mins; February 19, 2019
Nathan Holmes, "Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination" (SUNY Press, 2018)
22 mins; February 11, 2019
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema" (Duke UP, 2016)
42 mins; January 22, 2019
Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
62 hours 45 mins; January 17, 2019
Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash" (UP of Florida, 2016)
66 hours 30 mins; January 06, 2019
David LaRocca, "The Philosophy of War Films" (U Press of Kentucky, 2018)
59 mins; December 31, 2018
Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000" (Intellect, 2017)
65 hours 39 mins; December 28, 2018
Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
56 mins; December 18, 2018
Annabel Cooper, "Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen" (Otago UP, 2018)
15 mins; December 13, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout America!: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
60 hours 58 mins; December 05, 2018
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices" (Duke UP, 2018)
53 mins; November 29, 2018
Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women” (Mango Publishing Group, 2018)
61 hours 25 mins; November 16, 2018
Anindita Banerjee, “Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
42 mins; November 08, 2018
Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
77 hours 4 mins; October 31, 2018
Anthony Slide, “Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
47 mins; October 30, 2018
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Violence’s Fabled Experiment” (August Verlag, 2018)
53 mins; October 11, 2018
Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
48 mins; October 10, 2018
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of ‘Thelma & Louise’ Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin, 2018)
52 mins; August 23, 2018
Rachel Morley, “Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema” (I. B. Tauris, 2016)
50 mins; August 01, 2018
Martin Shuster, “New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
54 mins; July 19, 2018
Chris Nashawaty, “Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story” (Flatiron Books, 2018)
55 mins; July 18, 2018
Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)
47 mins; June 12, 2018
Discussion with Dahlia Schweitzer (“Going Viral”) and Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”)
65 hours 5 mins; May 15, 2018
Mark A. McCutcheon, “The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology” (Athabasca UP, 2018)
78 hours 49 mins; May 03, 2018
Jacob Bricca, “Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice” (Focal Press, 2018)
65 hours 49 mins; April 24, 2018
Brian Tochterman, “The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear” (UNC Press, 2017)
65 hours 24 mins; April 23, 2018
Mehal Krayem, “Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
21 mins; April 20, 2018
Dahlia Schweitzer, “Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
66 hours 3 mins; March 29, 2018
Kerry Wallach, “Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
41 mins; March 29, 2018
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
65 hours 42 mins; March 28, 2018
Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
79 hours 3 mins; March 22, 2018
Jennifer Frost, “Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism and the Cold War” (UP of Kansas, 2017)
68 hours 17 mins; February 21, 2018
Carla M. Wilson, “Curious Impossibilities: Ten Cinematic Riffs” (Black Scat Books, 2017)
58 mins; February 12, 2018
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