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New Books in Popular Culture
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Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
50 mins; January 23, 2023
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
38 mins; January 22, 2023
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
62 hours 49 mins; January 20, 2023
Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 9 mins; January 20, 2023
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
97 hours 39 mins; January 18, 2023
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
31 mins; January 18, 2023
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
48 mins; January 14, 2023
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
55 mins; January 13, 2023
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (BĂźchner-Verlag, 2021)
59 mins; January 13, 2023
Child's Play: The Seriousness of Children's Literature
29 mins; January 13, 2023
The SĂĄmi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
34 mins; January 12, 2023
The SĂĄmi in "Frozen" (Part 1)
40 mins; January 11, 2023
Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
42 mins; January 11, 2023
The Fremen in "Dune"
54 mins; January 10, 2023
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
54 mins; January 09, 2023
Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
83 hours 37 mins; January 07, 2023
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 25 mins; January 07, 2023
Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
87 hours 2 mins; January 06, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 06, 2023
Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
13 mins; January 04, 2023
Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
51 mins; January 04, 2023
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
42 mins; January 03, 2023
Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy
14 mins; January 03, 2023
Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
33 mins; January 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
29 mins; January 01, 2023
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
34 mins; December 28, 2022
Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
36 mins; December 25, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
27 mins; December 25, 2022
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; December 25, 2022
What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
45 mins; December 23, 2022
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
59 mins; December 23, 2022
Jane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
59 mins; December 19, 2022
Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
49 mins; December 18, 2022
John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)
58 mins; December 18, 2022
Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)
42 mins; December 11, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
76 hours 20 mins; December 11, 2022
Thomas Beller, "Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball" (Duke UP, 2022)
73 hours 40 mins; December 11, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
65 hours 33 mins; December 10, 2022
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 05, 2022
Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)
52 mins; December 04, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
51 mins; December 04, 2022
Craig Oldham, "The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting" (Rough Trade Books, 2022)
53 mins; December 03, 2022
Lisa Morton, "Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
44 mins; November 28, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; November 25, 2022
Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)
32 mins; November 25, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
56 mins; November 25, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
87 hours 11 mins; November 24, 2022
Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
78 hours 46 mins; November 24, 2022
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
47 mins; November 23, 2022
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
40 mins; November 22, 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
Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia: A Conversation with Annie Rauwerda
33 mins; November 17, 2022
Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
46 mins; November 17, 2022
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
69 hours 18 mins; November 15, 2022
Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
42 mins; November 14, 2022
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
33 mins; November 14, 2022
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
63 hours 32 mins; November 11, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
50 mins; November 10, 2022
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
45 mins; November 09, 2022
Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
41 mins; November 08, 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
Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
49 mins; November 07, 2022
Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 54 mins; November 04, 2022
Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)
47 mins; November 02, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
63 hours 28 mins; November 02, 2022
Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; October 31, 2022
Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; October 31, 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
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
55 mins; October 26, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
31 mins; October 26, 2022
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 14 mins; October 25, 2022
Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
44 mins; October 25, 2022
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
45 mins; October 24, 2022
Darrel Perkins, "The End Is At Hand" (Feral House, 2022)
52 mins; October 21, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
72 hours 24 mins; October 21, 2022
91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
31 mins; October 20, 2022
Wolverines!
56 mins; October 19, 2022
John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
85 hours 6 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
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
71 hours 35 mins; October 17, 2022
Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)
36 mins; October 17, 2022
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)
66 hours 30 mins; October 14, 2022
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
61 hours 36 mins; October 13, 2022
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 13, 2022
Alan Warde et al., "The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change" (Manchester UP, 2020)
67 hours 27 mins; October 12, 2022
Alena Pirok, "The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
74 hours 14 mins; October 12, 2022
Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)
55 mins; October 11, 2022
Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
37 mins; October 11, 2022
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
43 mins; October 07, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 13 mins; October 06, 2022
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
43 mins; October 06, 2022
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
38 mins; October 06, 2022
The Two Russias
54 mins; October 05, 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
40 mins; October 03, 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
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