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Cold War Homefront
63 hours 10 mins; September 28, 2022
Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
52 mins; September 27, 2022
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
42 mins; September 26, 2022
Andrew Bomback, "Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting" (MIT Press, 2022)
33 mins; September 23, 2022
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
63 hours 27 mins; September 23, 2022
Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2021)
32 mins; September 22, 2022
Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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
Emily Bingham, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song" (Knopf, 2022)
59 mins; September 19, 2022
Brian D. Bunk, "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
53 mins; September 19, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
35 mins; September 16, 2022
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
53 mins; September 16, 2022
Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 41 mins; September 15, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
58 mins; September 14, 2022
Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
37 mins; September 13, 2022
Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
54 mins; September 13, 2022
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
36 mins; September 12, 2022
Davida Breier, "Sinkhole" (U New Orleans Press, 2022)
47 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
Who Can You Trust?
56 mins; September 07, 2022
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
48 mins; September 06, 2022
Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
41 mins; September 02, 2022
William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
58 mins; September 02, 2022
Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner" (Norton, 2022)
63 hours 0 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
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
43 mins; September 01, 2022
Will Birch, "Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe" (Da Capo Press, 2019)
69 hours 1 min; August 31, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
60 hours 55 mins; August 31, 2022
Paul Oyer, "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports" (Yale UP, 2022)
57 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
Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
34 mins; August 26, 2022
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
70 hours 46 mins; August 25, 2022
Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization
46 mins; August 25, 2022
Jamie Fahey, "Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer" (Melville House, 2022)
59 mins; August 24, 2022
Reality TV
16 mins; August 23, 2022
Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
61 hours 23 mins; August 23, 2022
Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
68 hours 13 mins; August 22, 2022
Andrew M. Guest, "Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
69 hours 23 mins; August 18, 2022
87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
51 mins; August 17, 2022
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
40 mins; August 12, 2022
Rebecca Weeks, "History by HBO: Televising the American Past" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
65 hours 59 mins; August 12, 2022
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 11, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
56 mins; August 10, 2022
Minh-Ha T. Pham, "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property" (Duke UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 10, 2022
M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)
52 mins; August 09, 2022
On Apocalypse Stories
71 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2022
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; August 08, 2022
Tara Nurin, "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
47 mins; August 08, 2022
Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
60 hours 21 mins; August 05, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
42 mins; August 04, 2022
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
62 hours 10 mins; August 03, 2022
Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
57 mins; August 01, 2022
Jin Feng, "Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways" (U Washington Press, 2019)
41 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
Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
84 hours 24 mins; July 27, 2022
Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
83 hours 25 mins; July 26, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
33 mins; July 21, 2022
Donald Trump Loves Wrestlemania
86 hours 45 mins; July 19, 2022
Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)
66 hours 28 mins; July 19, 2022
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
58 mins; July 19, 2022
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Day Street, 2022)
66 hours 15 mins; July 18, 2022
Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick, "Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
46 mins; July 18, 2022
Monuments
19 mins; July 15, 2022
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Cultures in the United States" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; July 11, 2022
Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 10 mins; July 11, 2022
Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
44 mins; July 08, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
71 hours 35 mins; July 08, 2022
Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)
52 mins; July 08, 2022
Ashley Remer and Tiffany Isselhardt, "Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; July 06, 2022
Squid Game
13 mins; July 06, 2022
Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" (Jawbone, 2021)
64 hours 34 mins; July 05, 2022
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
65 hours 58 mins; July 04, 2022
Stefanie K. Dunning, "Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
43 mins; July 01, 2022
Daniel Silva, "Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
42 mins; July 01, 2022
Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre, "Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
60 hours 31 mins; July 01, 2022
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
82 hours 24 mins; June 30, 2022
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
47 mins; June 27, 2022
Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)
55 mins; June 23, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
71 hours 35 mins; June 22, 2022
Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
50 mins; June 20, 2022
Fandom
18 mins; June 17, 2022
Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
73 hours 49 mins; June 16, 2022
83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
27 mins; June 16, 2022
John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
56 mins; June 15, 2022
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
105 hours 12 mins; June 13, 2022
Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
70 hours 0 mins; June 10, 2022
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale, "Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia" (Lexington, 2016)
71 hours 18 mins; June 10, 2022
Melissa Vosen Callens, "Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in 'Stranger Things' and 1980s Film" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
40 mins; June 09, 2022
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
69 hours 14 mins; June 08, 2022
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
57 mins; June 08, 2022
Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
62 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
42 mins; June 06, 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
64 hours 35 mins; June 03, 2022
82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
54 mins; June 02, 2022
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)
61 hours 35 mins; June 01, 2022
Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)
64 hours 36 mins; May 31, 2022
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