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TV & Film
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
A Film by Francis Ford Coppola
21 min
302
Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materiali...
An interview with Kartik Nair
53 min
303
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Real...
An interview with Jenna Ng
49 min
304
The Hunting Trilogy
Three Short Films by Chuck Jones
19 min
305
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues...
An interview with Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, and Lee Mordechai
90 min
306
Limelight
A Film by Charlie Chaplin
27 min
307
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Fema...
An interview with Courtney Brannon Donoghue
52 min
308
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictat...
An interview with Andrew David Jackson
64 min
309
Anatomy of a Fall
A Film by Justine Triet
30 min
310
Ridley Scott's "Napoleon": A Historian's Review
A Discussion with Jeremy Black
21 min
311
Bliss Cua Lim, "The Archival Afterlives of Phil...
An interview with Bliss Cua Lim
53 min
312
My Best Fiend
A Film by Werner Herzog
24 min
313
"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson (with Jonathon Fess...
60 min
314
Eyes Wide Shut
A Film by Stanley Kubrick
35 min
315
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Eb...
An interview with Matt Singer
55 min
316
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish...
An interview with Ofer Ashkenazi
60 min
317
The Omen
A Film by Richard Donner
25 min
318
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrop...
An interview with Jennifer Cazenave
59 min
319
Plot
An Discussion with Pardis Dabashi
17 min
320
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah,...
An interview with W. K. Stratton
54 min
321
Meet John Doe
A Film by Frank Capra
29 min
322
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth...
An interview with Patrick Ffrench
71 min
323
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, ...
McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...
56 min
324
The Sting
A Film by George Roy Hill
19 min
325
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitute...
An interview with Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki
64 min