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Bryan Rennie, "An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior" (Routledge, 2020)
68 hours 54 mins; September 16, 2023
Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)
79 hours 4 mins; September 14, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
77 hours 6 mins; September 14, 2023
Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)
26 mins; September 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 2: Characters and Questions
24 mins; September 11, 2023
Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)
47 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
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
67 hours 36 mins; September 08, 2023
Caveh Zahedi, "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi" (Factory 25, 2015)
27 mins; September 06, 2023
James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 32 mins; September 06, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 1: The Story
23 mins; September 04, 2023
Elise Herrala, "Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; September 03, 2023
John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
61 hours 28 mins; September 03, 2023
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
62 hours 54 mins; September 02, 2023
Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton, "Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages" (Brill, 2022)
61 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2023
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 31, 2023
Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; August 31, 2023
Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
78 hours 33 mins; August 30, 2023
John Brackett, "Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness" (Duke UP, 2023)
66 hours 41 mins; August 30, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 3: The Language
27 mins; August 28, 2023
Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; August 28, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
110 hours 37 mins; August 27, 2023
Polyphony
20 mins; August 24, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
62 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 2: Characters and Questions
24 mins; August 21, 2023
Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
57 mins; August 19, 2023
Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)
56 mins; August 18, 2023
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
50 mins; August 15, 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
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 1: The Story
22 mins; August 14, 2023
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
52 mins; August 13, 2023
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
51 mins; August 09, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 3: The Language
30 mins; August 07, 2023
Tony McCaffrey, "Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre" (Routledge, 2023)
40 mins; August 05, 2023
What Was Contemporary Art?
19 mins; August 04, 2023
Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)
49 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
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 2: Characters and Questions
26 mins; July 31, 2023
Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
31 mins; July 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 1: The Story
23 mins; July 24, 2023
Rich Deakin, "Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead" (Headpress, 2021)
45 mins; July 23, 2023
Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse" (Dutton, 2023)
54 mins; July 22, 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
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 3: The Language
40 mins; July 17, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 17, 2023
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
51 mins; July 11, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 2: Characters and Questions
24 mins; July 10, 2023
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
53 mins; July 10, 2023
William Perrine, "Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego" (Billingsgate Media, 2023)
61 hours 58 mins; July 09, 2023
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
46 mins; July 08, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
37 mins; July 06, 2023
Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)
33 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
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 1: The Story
22 mins; July 03, 2023
Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
80 hours 18 mins; July 02, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
19 mins; July 01, 2023
Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)
38 mins; June 30, 2023
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
17 mins; June 29, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 3: The Language
28 mins; June 26, 2023
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
53 mins; June 22, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 2: Context and Questions
20 mins; June 19, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 1: The Story
19 mins; June 12, 2023
Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
39 mins; June 12, 2023
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
58 mins; June 11, 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
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
56 mins; June 10, 2023
Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
63 hours 24 mins; June 07, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
34 mins; June 05, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language
31 mins; June 05, 2023
Lance Esplund, "The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art" (Basic, 2018)
61 hours 59 mins; June 04, 2023
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
45 mins; June 04, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions
22 mins; May 29, 2023
A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia
51 mins; May 29, 2023
Lisa McCormick, "The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
45 mins; May 28, 2023
Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)
55 mins; May 25, 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
The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
41 mins; May 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 1: The Story
22 mins; May 22, 2023
Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
64 hours 55 mins; May 22, 2023
Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)
70 hours 13 mins; May 19, 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
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 3: The Language
36 mins; May 15, 2023
Sebanti Chatterjee, "Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
55 mins; May 14, 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
Mark Goodall, "Gathering of the Tribe: A Companion to Occult Music on Vinyl" (Headpress, 2022)
41 mins; May 12, 2023
Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value
25 mins; May 10, 2023
Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)
45 mins; May 09, 2023
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 2: Characters and Questions
20 mins; May 08, 2023
Brian Valente-Quinn, "Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
75 hours 29 mins; May 06, 2023
Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
59 mins; May 03, 2023
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
95 hours 21 mins; May 02, 2023
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 1: The Story
21 mins; May 01, 2023
Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
52 mins; April 30, 2023
Katherine Gillen et al., "The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera" (ACMRS, 2023)
47 mins; April 30, 2023
Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; April 29, 2023
David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
56 mins; April 27, 2023
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