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Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin Books, 2017)
65 hours 46 mins; January 30, 2018
Kevin Bartig, “Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky” (Oxford UP, 2017)
55 mins; January 29, 2018
Zach Sands, “Film Comedy and the American Dream” (Routledge, 2017)
31 mins; January 25, 2018
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
53 mins; January 18, 2018
Stephen Most, “Stories Make the World: Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary” (Berghahn Books, 2017)
62 hours 9 mins; January 03, 2018
Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
65 hours 18 mins; November 27, 2017
Mary Tomsic, “Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia, 1920-1990” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
17 mins; November 17, 2017
Matthew S. Rindge, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream” (Baylor UP, 2016)
43 mins; November 10, 2017
Joel Dinerstein, “The Origins of Cool in Postwar America” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
69 hours 42 mins; October 31, 2017
Stephen Pimpare, “Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen” (Oxford UP, 2017)
62 hours 34 mins; September 25, 2017
Noel Brown, “The Children’s Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative” (Wallflower Press, 2017)
24 mins; August 19, 2017
Patty Farmer, “Starring the Plaza: Hollywood, Broadway, and High Society Visit the World’s Favorite Hotel” (Beaufort Books, 2017)
49 mins; August 14, 2017
Jennifer Fleeger, “Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine” (Oxford UP, 2014)
31 mins; August 13, 2017
Don Nunley with Marshall Terrill, “Steve McQueen: Le Mans in the Rearview Mirror” (Dalton Watson, 2017)
51 mins; August 02, 2017
Blake Atwood, “Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic” (Columbia UP, 2016)
27 mins; June 26, 2017
William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)
73 hours 37 mins; June 20, 2017
Gary Kulik, “War Stories: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers” (Potomac Books, 2009)
70 hours 14 mins; June 15, 2017
Gillian McIver, “Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
48 mins; June 14, 2017
Stephen Lee Naish, “Deconstructing Dirty Dancing” (Zero Books, 2017)
65 hours 52 mins; May 16, 2017
Mia Mask, “Divas on the Screen: Black Women in American Film” (U. of Illinois Press, 2009)
21 mins; March 29, 2017
Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McFarland, 2015)
44 mins; March 29, 2017
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible” (Fordham UP, 2015)
71 hours 12 mins; March 28, 2017
Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)
54 mins; March 21, 2017
Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
38 mins; March 14, 2017
Mick Broderick, “Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Nightmare Comedy'” (WallFlower Press, 2016)
71 hours 28 mins; March 02, 2017
Sherilyn Connelly, “Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016” (McFarland, 2017)
61 hours 50 mins; February 23, 2017
Bob Moss, “Vibes from the Screen: Getting Greater Enjoyment from Films” (MCP Books, 2016)
63 hours 23 mins; February 21, 2017
James A. Davidson, “Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude” (McFarland, 2016)
68 hours 55 mins; January 24, 2017
Tom Rice, “White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan” (Indiana U. Press, 2016)
47 mins; January 23, 2017
Anthony Lioi, “Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
67 hours 12 mins; January 20, 2017
Toni Pressley-Sanon, “Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen” (McFarland, 2016)
55 mins; January 18, 2017
Kevin Smokler, “Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies” (Rare Bird Books, 2016)
59 mins; January 18, 2017
David Shafer, “Antonin Artaud” (Reaktion/U Chicago Press, 2016)
61 hours 1 min; January 03, 2017
Amanda Deutch, “Pull Yourself Together: The Gena Rowlands Poems” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)
8 mins; November 23, 2016
Robert Matzen, “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe” (GoodKnight Books, 2016)
66 hours 22 mins; October 24, 2016
Elizabeth Reich, “Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
34 mins; October 10, 2016
Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph, “A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies ” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
66 hours 22 mins; September 19, 2016
Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)
64 hours 21 mins; August 24, 2016
Sue Matheson, “The Westerns and War Films of John Ford” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
58 mins; July 21, 2016
Anand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015)
48 mins; June 26, 2016
Cass Sunstein, “The World According to Star Wars” (Harper Collins, 2016)
34 mins; May 28, 2016
Birgit Meyer, “Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (U of California Press, 2015)
65 hours 12 mins; April 30, 2016
Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016)
71 hours 13 mins; April 19, 2016
Jason Mittell, “Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television” (NYU Press 2015)
66 hours 20 mins; April 18, 2016
Kimberly Fain, “Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies” (Praeger, 2015)
65 hours 54 mins; April 03, 2016
Alan Sepinwall, “The Revolution Was Televised” (Touchstone, 2015)
31 mins; February 24, 2016
George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015)
55 mins; January 22, 2016
Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)
30 mins; December 08, 2015
Hilary Neroni, “The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film” (Columbia UP, 2015)
60 hours 22 mins; October 27, 2015
Liam Burke, “The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre” (UP of Mississippi, 2015)
71 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2015
Elizabeth Haas, Terry Chrstensen, and Peter J. Haas, “Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films” (Routledge, 2015)
63 hours 50 mins; September 08, 2015
Laura Isabel Serna, “Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age” (Duke UP, 2014)
76 hours 24 mins; August 17, 2015
Michael Ray FitzGerald, “Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the ‘Good Indian'” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
54 mins; July 24, 2015
Caseen Gaines, “We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy” (Plume, 2015)
72 hours 15 mins; June 28, 2015
Suzanne Broderick, “Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
59 mins; June 24, 2015
Donald Dewey, “Lee J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
62 hours 37 mins; June 20, 2015
Dave Itzkoff, “Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies” (Times Books, 2014)
64 hours 14 mins; June 10, 2015
Paul Seydor, “The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Northwestern UP, 2015)
68 hours 46 mins; June 02, 2015
Tom Hertweck, “Food on Film” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
69 hours 25 mins; April 26, 2015
Hugo Frey, “Nationalism and the Cinema in France” (Berghahn Books, 2014)
60 hours 55 mins; April 24, 2015
Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)
53 mins; April 17, 2015
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, “Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life” (UNC Press, 2014)
69 hours 1 min; April 10, 2015
Joan Kramer and David Heeley, “In the Company of Legends” (Beaufort Books, 2015)
68 hours 3 mins; April 03, 2015
Raluca Lucia Cimpean, “The JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
65 hours 4 mins; March 28, 2015
Norma Jones, Maja-Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, “Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
65 hours 56 mins; February 25, 2015
Steven Awalt, “Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
63 hours 35 mins; February 18, 2015
Kutter Callaway, “Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience” (Baylor UP, 2013)
57 mins; February 16, 2015
John Wiley Jr., “The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2014)
61 hours 56 mins; January 22, 2015
Guy Westwell, “Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
56 mins; January 13, 2015
Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen, “War on the Silver Screen” (Potomac Books, 2014)
60 hours 9 mins; January 05, 2015
Dick Lehr, “The Birth of a Nation” (PublicAffairs, 2014)
51 mins; December 19, 2014
Bruce Babington, “The Sports Film: Games People Play” (Wallflower Press, 2014)
60 hours 10 mins; December 11, 2014
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, “1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans:
65 hours 55 mins; December 02, 2014
Laura Mattoon D’Amore, “Smart Chicks on Screen” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
65 hours 10 mins; November 25, 2014
Bridget Conor, “Screenwriting: Creative labor and professional practice” (Routledge, 2014)
50 mins; November 18, 2014
Chris Taylor, “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” (Basic Books, 2014)
64 hours 45 mins; November 14, 2014
Bryn Upton, “Hollywood and the End of the Cold War: Signs of Cinematic Change” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
58 mins; October 21, 2014
Hideaki Fujiki, “Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
72 hours 56 mins; September 04, 2014
M. Gail Hamner, “Imaging Religion in Film: The Politics of Nostalgia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
55 mins; May 19, 2014
Travis Vogan, “Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
51 mins; May 16, 2014
Donald T. Critchlow, “When Hollywood Was Right” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
57 mins; April 27, 2014
Aswin Punthamabekar, “From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry” (NYU Press, 2013)
48 mins; February 19, 2014
Olga Gershenson, “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe” (Rutgers UP, 2013)
73 hours 6 mins; February 05, 2014
Daisuke Miyao, “The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema” (Duke UP, 2013)
70 hours 50 mins; January 28, 2014
David Konow, “Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
60 hours 54 mins; October 17, 2013
Louis Menashe, “Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies” (New Academia, 2010)
68 hours 59 mins; February 15, 2013
S. Brent Plate, “Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World” (Wallflower Press, 2008)
63 hours 43 mins; November 05, 2012
David A. Kirby, “Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema” (MIT Press, 2011)
65 hours 17 mins; July 02, 2012
Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism” (NYU Press, 2011)
57 mins; October 25, 2011
Robert J. Corber, “Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema” (Duke University Press, 2011)
43 mins; August 04, 2011
Maria Yatskova, “Miss Gulag” (Neihausen-Yatskova & Vodar Films, 2007)
41 mins; June 03, 2011
Laura Wittern-Keller, “The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
65 hours 4 mins; November 07, 2008
Laura Wittern-Keller, “Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to Film Censorship 1915-1981” (University of Kentucky Press, 2008)
61 hours 9 mins; April 04, 2008
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