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Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
49 mins; May 14, 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
56 mins; May 11, 2024
Hala Auji et al., "The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
41 mins; May 10, 2024
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)
56 mins; May 10, 2024
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
73 hours 21 mins; May 08, 2024
Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024)
29 mins; May 07, 2024
Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024)
25 mins; May 04, 2024
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 04, 2024
Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
53 mins; May 03, 2024
Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)
69 hours 51 mins; May 03, 2024
Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
64 hours 27 mins; May 01, 2024
Adrian Tinniswood, "Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House" (Basic Books, 2021)
52 mins; April 28, 2024
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
50 mins; April 26, 2024
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" (U California Press, 2024)
66 hours 11 mins; April 24, 2024
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, "Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
50 mins; April 23, 2024
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
48 mins; April 23, 2024
Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
61 hours 18 mins; April 19, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
35 mins; April 17, 2024
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
60 hours 37 mins; April 12, 2024
Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
39 mins; April 11, 2024
Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
49 mins; April 09, 2024
BenoĂŽt Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
60 hours 0 mins; April 09, 2024
Adele Oliver, "Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill" (404 Ink, 2023)
48 mins; April 06, 2024
Sandra Fox, "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America" (Stanford UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 06, 2024
Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)
66 hours 57 mins; April 06, 2024
Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38 mins; April 06, 2024
Daniel de VisĂŠ, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
58 mins; April 04, 2024
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; April 03, 2024
Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
81 hours 46 mins; April 02, 2024
Ben Highmore, "Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2023)
67 hours 47 mins; March 31, 2024
Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
36 mins; March 26, 2024
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
48 mins; March 21, 2024
Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
61 hours 17 mins; March 21, 2024
John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024)
52 mins; March 16, 2024
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
22 mins; March 15, 2024
Micajah Henley, "The Clash's Sandinista!" (Bloombury, 2024)
64 hours 25 mins; March 14, 2024
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
101 hours 6 mins; March 12, 2024
Piotr Florczyk, "Swimming Pool" (Bloombury, 2024)
36 mins; March 12, 2024
David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; March 11, 2024
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
64 hours 56 mins; March 11, 2024
Samantha Majic, "Lights, Camera, Feminism?: Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics" (U California Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 10, 2024
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
47 mins; March 08, 2024
Amy Coddington, "How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race" (U California Press, 2023)
51 mins; March 06, 2024
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; March 03, 2024
Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
49 mins; March 03, 2024
Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)
91 hours 52 mins; March 02, 2024
Tyler C. Gore, "My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2022)
53 mins; February 28, 2024
Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 27, 2024
Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
61 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2024
Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)
54 mins; February 20, 2024
John Howland, "Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music" (U California Press, 2021)
95 hours 49 mins; February 18, 2024
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)
57 mins; February 14, 2024
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
34 mins; February 10, 2024
Richard T. RodrĂ­guez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 8 mins; February 09, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
57 mins; February 06, 2024
Brydie Kosmina, "Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
54 mins; February 06, 2024
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
94 hours 28 mins; February 06, 2024
Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
71 hours 6 mins; February 05, 2024
Dustin Kiskaddon, "Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer" (Stanford UP, 2023)
53 mins; February 04, 2024
Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
65 hours 44 mins; February 04, 2024
William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
48 mins; February 03, 2024
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
66 hours 2 mins; January 30, 2024
Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
52 mins; January 29, 2024
Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)
50 mins; January 28, 2024
Judith Fathallah, "Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer" (Mediastudies Press, 2023)
56 mins; January 27, 2024
Kate Annett-Hitchcock, "The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)
57 mins; January 26, 2024
Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
52 mins; January 22, 2024
Aaron Carnes, "In Defense of Ska: The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition" (Clash Books, 2023)
69 hours 30 mins; January 21, 2024
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
48 mins; January 20, 2024
Thomas Baudinette, "Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; January 16, 2024
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
34 mins; January 15, 2024
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
80 hours 9 mins; January 14, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
59 mins; January 13, 2024
StĂŠphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 13, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 28 mins; January 10, 2024
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
41 mins; January 09, 2024
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" (U Texas Press, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; January 07, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; January 06, 2024
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
46 mins; January 04, 2024
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
58 mins; January 03, 2024
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
54 mins; January 01, 2024
Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
60 hours 39 mins; December 29, 2023
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
50 mins; December 28, 2023
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
59 mins; December 28, 2023
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
30 mins; December 28, 2023
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
62 hours 50 mins; December 26, 2023
Nate Patrin, "The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
52 mins; December 23, 2023
Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
35 mins; December 21, 2023
Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; December 21, 2023
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
51 mins; December 20, 2023
Emma Reay, "The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
29 mins; December 20, 2023
Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)
39 mins; December 19, 2023
Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
40 mins; December 19, 2023
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
62 hours 35 mins; December 17, 2023
Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
80 hours 20 mins; December 17, 2023
Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
72 hours 30 mins; December 15, 2023
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
32 mins; December 14, 2023
Lynn Z. Bloom, "Recipe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
36 mins; December 13, 2023
Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
53 mins; December 12, 2023
Jesse Dart, "Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry" (Lexington Books, 2022)
53 mins; December 11, 2023
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