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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries
50 mins; December 19, 2022
Fearghus Roulston, "Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History" (Manchester UP, 2022)
36 mins; December 19, 2022
On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
28 mins; December 19, 2022
Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
61 hours 46 mins; December 17, 2022
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
58 mins; December 16, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
57 mins; December 14, 2022
Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)
30 mins; December 12, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
76 hours 20 mins; December 11, 2022
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
52 mins; December 10, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
65 hours 33 mins; December 10, 2022
Mary Channen Caldwell, "Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
31 mins; December 07, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
51 mins; December 04, 2022
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
47 mins; November 28, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
56 mins; November 25, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; November 25, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
87 hours 11 mins; November 24, 2022
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
46 mins; November 23, 2022
Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
57 mins; November 21, 2022
Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
65 hours 5 mins; November 21, 2022
Gregor Gall, "The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion" (Manchester UP, 2022)
64 hours 17 mins; November 18, 2022
Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
44 mins; November 17, 2022
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
51 mins; November 14, 2022
Meredith Schweig, "Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
94 hours 35 mins; November 11, 2022
Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
58 mins; November 10, 2022
Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
44 mins; November 09, 2022
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
43 mins; November 09, 2022
Bruce Davis, "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
66 hours 54 mins; November 08, 2022
Guthrie P. Ramsey, "Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present" (U California Press, 2022)
44 mins; November 07, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
63 hours 28 mins; November 02, 2022
Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
95 hours 10 mins; November 02, 2022
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
63 hours 59 mins; October 28, 2022
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
30 mins; October 26, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 14 mins; October 25, 2022
Proust Questionnaire 37: Dame Zandra Rhodes, Fashion Designer
37 mins; October 24, 2022
Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
62 hours 20 mins; October 24, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
72 hours 24 mins; October 21, 2022
Wolverines!
56 mins; October 19, 2022
John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)
67 hours 49 mins; October 18, 2022
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
62 hours 30 mins; October 18, 2022
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)
66 hours 30 mins; October 14, 2022
Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; October 14, 2022
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
61 hours 36 mins; October 13, 2022
Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 8 mins; October 11, 2022
On Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
28 mins; October 10, 2022
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
43 mins; October 06, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 13 mins; October 06, 2022
The Two Russias
54 mins; October 05, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
77 hours 3 mins; October 04, 2022
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
63 hours 24 mins; October 04, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
57 mins; September 29, 2022
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
64 hours 40 mins; September 29, 2022
Cold War Homefront
63 hours 10 mins; September 28, 2022
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
57 mins; September 27, 2022
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
36 mins; September 26, 2022
Annie-B Parson, "The Choreography of Everyday Life" (Verso, 2022)
63 hours 4 mins; September 23, 2022
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment" (Columbia UP, 2020)
76 hours 17 mins; September 22, 2022
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
60 hours 43 mins; September 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
73 hours 45 mins; September 21, 2022
Stevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)
67 hours 37 mins; September 20, 2022
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
53 mins; September 16, 2022
Christin Essin, "Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
64 hours 1 min; September 14, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
58 mins; September 14, 2022
Pamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)
58 mins; September 13, 2022
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
36 mins; September 12, 2022
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
84 hours 31 mins; September 12, 2022
Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
50 mins; September 09, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
56 mins; September 07, 2022
Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; September 07, 2022
Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
39 mins; September 02, 2022
Karinne Keithley Syers, "Astrs" (53rd State Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 02, 2022
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
46 mins; September 01, 2022
Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)
37 mins; September 01, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
60 hours 55 mins; August 31, 2022
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
64 hours 4 mins; August 30, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
47 mins; August 29, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
78 hours 11 mins; August 26, 2022
Brahma Prakash, "Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
56 mins; August 26, 2022
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
58 mins; August 26, 2022
Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
63 hours 26 mins; August 25, 2022
Karen Archey, "After Institutions" (Les presses du réel, 2022)
69 hours 45 mins; August 22, 2022
Antonio C. Cuyler, "Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US" (Routledge, 2020)
49 mins; August 18, 2022
87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
51 mins; August 17, 2022
Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)
37 mins; August 17, 2022
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
40 mins; August 12, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
56 mins; August 10, 2022
Sara Farrington, "The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde" (53rd State Press, 2021)
57 mins; August 10, 2022
M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)
52 mins; August 09, 2022
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; August 08, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
42 mins; August 04, 2022
Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
57 mins; August 01, 2022
Alan John Ainsworth, "Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960" (Intellect, 2022)
53 mins; August 01, 2022
John M. Shaw, "Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
48 mins; August 01, 2022
Jeff Hayton, "Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
67 hours 3 mins; July 28, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
33 mins; July 21, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Melanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
38 mins; July 19, 2022
Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)
66 hours 28 mins; July 19, 2022
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