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Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)
50 mins; April 25, 2023
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 3: the Language
23 mins; April 24, 2023
Catherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)
57 mins; April 22, 2023
Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
60 hours 16 mins; April 22, 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)
52 mins; April 18, 2023
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 2: Characters and Questions
21 mins; April 17, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
61 hours 21 mins; April 13, 2023
Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
66 hours 21 mins; April 12, 2023
Natasha Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
45 mins; April 12, 2023
Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)
64 hours 43 mins; April 11, 2023
Celeste Day Moore, "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France" (Duke UP, 2021)
94 hours 15 mins; April 10, 2023
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
20 mins; April 10, 2023
Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
43 mins; April 08, 2023
Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
44 mins; April 08, 2023
The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
63 hours 41 mins; April 06, 2023
Natilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
56 mins; April 05, 2023
Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
55 mins; April 04, 2023
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
74 hours 58 mins; April 04, 2023
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 3: the Language
20 mins; April 03, 2023
Suzanne Ferriss, "Lost in Translation" (British Film Institute, 2023)
46 mins; March 31, 2023
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
112 hours 4 mins; March 31, 2023
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
61 hours 3 mins; March 29, 2023
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
41 mins; March 28, 2023
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 2: Characters and Questions
20 mins; March 27, 2023
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
64 hours 40 mins; March 27, 2023
Sarah L. Kaufman, "The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life" (Norton, 2015)
23 mins; March 23, 2023
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 1: the Story
20 mins; March 20, 2023
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 20, 2023
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
69 hours 24 mins; March 19, 2023
The Sharing of Sound Art
37 mins; March 18, 2023
Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
31 mins; March 17, 2023
Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)
67 hours 41 mins; March 16, 2023
Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
54 mins; March 14, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
38 mins; March 13, 2023
Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 36 mins; March 12, 2023
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
72 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2023
Joey Merlo, "On Set with Theda Bara" (1080 Press, 2023)
50 mins; March 11, 2023
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
64 hours 40 mins; March 10, 2023
Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
74 hours 4 mins; March 07, 2023
Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
53 mins; March 07, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
32 mins; March 06, 2023
Error, Ego, Humility and Music: A Discussion with Tony Monaco
58 mins; March 05, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies
16 mins; March 05, 2023
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
45 mins; March 04, 2023
Margaret Hall, "Gemignani: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond" (Applause Books, 2022)
46 mins; March 01, 2023
Frances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)
41 mins; February 27, 2023
Dan DiPiero, "Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
85 hours 37 mins; February 27, 2023
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
47 mins; February 27, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
29 mins; February 27, 2023
Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)
57 mins; February 26, 2023
Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)
68 hours 34 mins; February 25, 2023
Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
67 hours 38 mins; February 20, 2023
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 3: the Language
40 mins; February 20, 2023
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
47 mins; February 18, 2023
Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)
42 mins; February 14, 2023
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
53 mins; February 14, 2023
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
25 mins; February 13, 2023
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
31 mins; February 10, 2023
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
70 hours 51 mins; February 10, 2023
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 1: the Story
24 mins; February 06, 2023
Steven Hyden, "Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Hachette Books, 2022)
46 mins; February 06, 2023
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
57 mins; February 06, 2023
Deep Cuts: Classic Rock and Hair Metal with Professor and Guitarist Jesse Kavadlo
68 hours 41 mins; February 05, 2023
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
65 hours 40 mins; February 05, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 5: How to Read Shakespeare
20 mins; January 30, 2023
Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
53 mins; January 28, 2023
Maria Sonevytsky, "Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine" (Wesleyan UP, 2019)
61 hours 11 mins; January 28, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; January 27, 2023
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 53 mins; January 25, 2023
Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?
31 mins; January 24, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 4: Shakespeare’s Work
9 mins; January 23, 2023
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
68 hours 45 mins; January 23, 2023
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
37 mins; January 22, 2023
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
62 hours 49 mins; January 20, 2023
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
97 hours 39 mins; January 18, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 3: Shakespeare’s Life
11 mins; January 16, 2023
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
67 hours 32 mins; January 16, 2023
Dana Mills, "Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; January 14, 2023
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
66 hours 58 mins; January 12, 2023
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
100 hours 37 mins; January 09, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 2: Shakespeare’s World
18 mins; January 09, 2023
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
61 hours 12 mins; January 07, 2023
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 25 mins; January 07, 2023
Siv B. Lie, "Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
57 mins; January 04, 2023
Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
31 mins; January 02, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 1: Why Read Shakespeare
10 mins; January 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
27 mins; January 01, 2023
Aaron Moulton, "The Influencing Machine" (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022)
82 hours 49 mins; December 31, 2022
Catholic Movies, Part 1: "Silence" and "The Scarlet and the Black"
63 hours 41 mins; December 30, 2022
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
34 mins; December 28, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
25 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
43 mins; December 23, 2022
Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)
69 hours 59 mins; December 22, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
79 hours 1 min; December 22, 2022
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
88 hours 3 mins; December 21, 2022
Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
77 hours 24 mins; December 21, 2022
Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
67 hours 19 mins; December 21, 2022
On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot
33 mins; December 20, 2022
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