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TV & Film
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Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Lite...
An interview with Hongwei Bao
54 min
477
Shall We Play A Game?
On "War Games" (1983), "The Falcon and the Snowman" (1985), "The Last Starfighter" (1984), and "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" (1986)
47 min
478
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender C...
An interview with Andrei Nae
51 min
479
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis an...
An interview with Mallory Lewis
28 min
480
Larry Ceplair, "The Hollywood Motion Picture Bl...
An interview with Larry Ceplair
54 min
481
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theo...
An interview with Kyle Stevens
60 min
482
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press,...
An interview with Scott Bukatman
68 min
483
Wolverines!
On "Taps" (1981) and "Red Dawn" (1984)
52 min
484
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
An interview with Diane Negra
58 min
485
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That M...
An interview with Erin Keane
67 min
486
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossibl...
An interview with Alexander Sergeant
62 min
487
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
An interview with Ramzi Fawaz
57 min
488
Bonus Episode: A Conversation about Past Episod...
32 min
489
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History an...
An interview with Eran Kaplan
60 min
490
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: En...
An interview with Jennifer Wenzel
48 min
491
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a ...
An interview with Pamela Robertson Wojcik
64 min
492
The Two Russias
On White Nights (1985), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and The Russia House (1990)
50 min
493
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
A Discussion with Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi
73 min
494
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corpo...
An interview with Usha Iyer
62 min
495
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (D...
An interview with Jean-Thomas Tremblay
60 min
496
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cine...
An interview with Samhita Sunya
54 min
497
Cold War Homefront
On The Deer Hunter (1978), Coming Home (1978), and Da Five Bloods (2020)
59 min
498
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: F...
An interview with Catherine Lester
59 min
499
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorpo...
The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...
69 min
500
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
On On the Beach (1959), The Day After (1983), and Threads (1984)
70 min