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Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; April 13, 2025
Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
41 mins; April 11, 2025
Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
61 hours 31 mins; April 08, 2025
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 04, 2025
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
49 mins; April 02, 2025
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 01, 2025
Making Radio History
67 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2025
D. D. Miller, "Eight-wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd's Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016)
64 hours 17 mins; March 30, 2025
Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
40 mins; March 29, 2025
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
64 hours 50 mins; March 25, 2025
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
37 mins; March 24, 2025
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
32 mins; March 18, 2025
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
69 hours 31 mins; March 17, 2025
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; March 15, 2025
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
68 hours 0 mins; March 14, 2025
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 11, 2025
Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
51 mins; March 08, 2025
Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
52 mins; March 07, 2025
Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
26 mins; March 07, 2025
Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
57 mins; March 06, 2025
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Blair Farrell, "The Avengers in Video Games" (McFarland, 2021)
40 mins; March 05, 2025
Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
20 mins; March 04, 2025
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
33 mins; March 03, 2025
Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
36 mins; March 03, 2025
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
59 mins; March 02, 2025
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 26, 2025
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
46 mins; February 25, 2025
In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
76 hours 31 mins; February 22, 2025
Shelly Jones and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, "Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic, The Gathering and Its Influence" (McFarland, 2023)
29 mins; February 20, 2025
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; February 15, 2025
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
40 mins; February 12, 2025
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; February 11, 2025
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
57 mins; February 11, 2025
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
50 mins; February 09, 2025
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 09, 2025
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; February 08, 2025
Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)
56 mins; February 08, 2025
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
112 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2025
Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
59 mins; February 05, 2025
Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)
79 hours 7 mins; February 03, 2025
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
55 mins; February 03, 2025
A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
84 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2025
Catherine Butler, "British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 5 mins; January 20, 2025
Marco Arnaudo, "The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century" (McFarland, 2023)
27 mins; January 19, 2025
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
60 hours 45 mins; January 17, 2025
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
53 mins; January 16, 2025
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 15, 2025
Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
36 mins; January 14, 2025
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; January 13, 2025
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
47 mins; January 09, 2025
Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
39 mins; January 05, 2025
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
45 mins; January 04, 2025
Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
63 hours 8 mins; December 31, 2024
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
56 mins; December 28, 2024
Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)
40 mins; December 25, 2024
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
93 hours 4 mins; December 25, 2024
Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; December 24, 2024
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
44 mins; December 24, 2024
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
69 hours 57 mins; December 24, 2024
Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
52 mins; December 22, 2024
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
71 hours 22 mins; December 22, 2024
Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 21, 2024
Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
38 mins; December 15, 2024
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted BarbieÂź" (MIT Press, 2024)
35 mins; December 14, 2024
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
46 mins; December 13, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
48 mins; December 13, 2024
Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
62 hours 10 mins; December 11, 2024
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
54 mins; December 08, 2024
Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
49 mins; December 05, 2024
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)
35 mins; December 04, 2024
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; November 30, 2024
Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 59 mins; November 29, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
33 mins; November 27, 2024
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
56 mins; November 25, 2024
Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 23, 2024
Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
25 mins; November 22, 2024
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
47 mins; November 21, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
46 mins; November 21, 2024
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
51 mins; November 20, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
67 hours 44 mins; November 19, 2024
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
119 hours 32 mins; November 18, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
54 mins; November 18, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 17, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
68 hours 2 mins; November 16, 2024
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; November 14, 2024
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 13, 2024
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; November 12, 2024
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
83 hours 47 mins; November 12, 2024
Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
29 mins; November 10, 2024
Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)
35 mins; November 09, 2024
Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
35 mins; November 07, 2024
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
69 hours 9 mins; November 06, 2024
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
32 mins; November 02, 2024
Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
55 mins; November 01, 2024
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
59 mins; November 01, 2024
Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
37 mins; November 01, 2024
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
81 hours 47 mins; October 27, 2024
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; October 26, 2024
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