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Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
58 mins; February 09, 2022
Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; February 09, 2022
James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
71 hours 6 mins; February 08, 2022
Peilin Liang, "Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater" (Routledge, 2021)
64 hours 31 mins; February 07, 2022
Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
33 mins; February 07, 2022
Karen Jaime, "The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida" (NYU Press, 2021)
51 mins; February 03, 2022
I'm Possible: A Conversation with Tuba Professor Dr. Richard White
60 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2022
Michael Stewart Foley, "Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash" (Basic Books, 2021)
91 hours 19 mins; February 02, 2022
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
93 hours 52 mins; February 01, 2022
Baker A. Rogers, "King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
40 mins; January 31, 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
73 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2022
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
77 hours 21 mins; January 26, 2022
Henry K. Miller, "The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker" (U California Press, 2022)
68 hours 31 mins; January 25, 2022
Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
59 mins; January 21, 2022
Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
80 hours 49 mins; January 21, 2022
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
61 hours 12 mins; January 18, 2022
Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television" (Duke UP, 2021)
36 mins; January 18, 2022
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
55 mins; January 17, 2022
Jake Johnson, "Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
57 mins; January 13, 2022
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
59 mins; January 13, 2022
Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 16 mins; January 13, 2022
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
52 mins; January 12, 2022
Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; January 11, 2022
Carol J. Oja and Charles Garrett, "Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U. S. Music in the 21st Century" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
45 mins; January 07, 2022
Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
74 hours 34 mins; January 07, 2022
Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)
64 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2022
Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman, "Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
56 mins; January 05, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
128 hours 28 mins; January 05, 2022
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in HĂ  Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
70 hours 11 mins; January 04, 2022
Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
51 mins; December 30, 2021
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
76 hours 19 mins; December 30, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
59 mins; December 30, 2021
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene" (Oxford UP, 2018)
112 hours 8 mins; December 27, 2021
Carolyn Eastman, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity" (UNC Press, 2021)
31 mins; December 23, 2021
The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore
21 mins; December 23, 2021
David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
172 hours 59 mins; December 23, 2021
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
40 mins; December 22, 2021
David Clare et al., "The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 21, 2021
Mary Talusan, "Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
64 hours 52 mins; December 20, 2021
Matthew H. Brown, "Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address" (Duke UP, 2021)
100 hours 33 mins; December 15, 2021
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)
50 mins; December 10, 2021
Kate Fortmueller, "Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID" (U Texas Press, 2021)
68 hours 2 mins; December 09, 2021
Alisa Freedman, "Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost" (Association for Asian Studies, 2021)
58 mins; December 08, 2021
Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
81 hours 0 mins; December 07, 2021
Caetlin Benson-Allott, "The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television" (U California Press, 2021)
56 mins; December 06, 2021
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, "Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
36 mins; December 02, 2021
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
49 mins; December 01, 2021
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
65 hours 14 mins; November 30, 2021
Sunhee Koo, "Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
67 hours 35 mins; November 24, 2021
Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
57 mins; November 24, 2021
Gretchen E. Minton, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
50 mins; November 24, 2021
Daniel Alexander Jones, "Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts" (53rd State Press, 2021)
66 hours 19 mins; November 23, 2021
Kate Fortmueller, "Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production" (U Texas Press, 2021)
73 hours 41 mins; November 18, 2021
Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)
59 mins; November 12, 2021
Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
60 hours 48 mins; November 11, 2021
Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
82 hours 48 mins; November 11, 2021
Andrea Warner, "Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography" (Graystone Books, 2018)
55 mins; November 05, 2021
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
74 hours 37 mins; November 03, 2021
Raphael Cormack, "Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s" (Norton, 2021)
55 mins; November 02, 2021
Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
51 mins; November 02, 2021
Caroline A. Kita, "Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater" (Indiana UP, 2019)
52 mins; October 26, 2021
David Pearson, "Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; October 26, 2021
Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)
37 mins; October 25, 2021
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
89 hours 38 mins; October 22, 2021
Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
58 mins; October 22, 2021
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
63 hours 3 mins; October 22, 2021
Adesola Akinleye, "(Re:) Claiming Ballet" (Intellect Books, 2021)
20 mins; October 21, 2021
Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
47 mins; October 20, 2021
Gregory Vargo, "Chartist Drama" (Manchester UP, 2021)
52 mins; October 19, 2021
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
79 hours 35 mins; October 19, 2021
Joseph L. Clarke, "Echo's Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
34 mins; October 19, 2021
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 50 mins; October 13, 2021
Alana Jelinek, "Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
59 mins; October 13, 2021
Mike Dines et al., "The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global" (Intellect, 2019)
55 mins; October 12, 2021
Phil Rosenzweig, "Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men" (Fordham UP, 2021)
68 hours 25 mins; October 11, 2021
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
63 hours 42 mins; October 07, 2021
Anne Bogart, "The Art of Resonance" (Methuen Drama, 2021)
61 hours 47 mins; October 06, 2021
Panayotis F. League, "Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 04, 2021
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 42 mins; October 01, 2021
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (New Star Books, 2021)
71 hours 27 mins; September 29, 2021
Shayna Maskell, "Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
57 mins; September 28, 2021
Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)
52 mins; September 27, 2021
M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
82 hours 47 mins; September 22, 2021
Danish Sheikh, "Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India" (Seagull Books, 2021)
49 mins; September 20, 2021
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; September 20, 2021
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
97 hours 55 mins; September 20, 2021
Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)
64 hours 19 mins; September 17, 2021
Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, "Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
48 mins; September 16, 2021
J. P. M. Drury and S. A. M. Drury, "Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical" (Peter Lang, 2021)
49 mins; September 16, 2021
Martin Harris, "Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire" (Headpress, 2021)
61 hours 30 mins; September 15, 2021
Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
64 hours 4 mins; September 15, 2021
Franz Nicolay, "Someone Should Pay for Your Pain" (Gibson House Press, 2021)
54 mins; September 15, 2021
Sara E. Lampert, "Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
46 mins; September 10, 2021
Mary Gauthier, "Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2021)
50 mins; September 10, 2021
Cameron Crookston, "The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging?" (Intellect, 2021)
54 mins; September 06, 2021
Jan Bardsley, "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 24 mins; September 06, 2021
Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
50 mins; September 03, 2021
Robin Wallace: Inspired By Beethoven
113 hours 51 mins; September 01, 2021
Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
58 mins; August 31, 2021
Caseen Gaines, "Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
49 mins; August 30, 2021
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