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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
527
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
528
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis an...
An interview with Mallory Lewis
28 min
529
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theo...
An interview with Kyle Stevens
60 min
530
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press,...
An interview with Scott Bukatman
68 min
531
Wolverines!
On "Taps" (1981) and "Red Dawn" (1984)
52 min
532
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
An interview with Diane Negra
58 min
533
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That M...
An interview with Erin Keane
67 min
534
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossibl...
An interview with Alexander Sergeant
62 min
535
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
An interview with Ramzi Fawaz
57 min
536
Bonus Episode: A Conversation about Past Episod...
32 min
537
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History an...
An interview with Eran Kaplan
60 min
538
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: En...
An interview with Jennifer Wenzel
48 min
539
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a ...
An interview with Pamela Robertson Wojcik
64 min
540
The Two Russias
On White Nights (1985), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and The Russia House (1990)
50 min
541
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
A Discussion with Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi
73 min
542
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corpo...
An interview with Usha Iyer
62 min
543
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (D...
An interview with Jean-Thomas Tremblay
60 min
544
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cine...
An interview with Samhita Sunya
54 min
545
Cold War Homefront
On The Deer Hunter (1978), Coming Home (1978), and Da Five Bloods (2020)
59 min
546
Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: F...
An interview with Catherine Lester
59 min
547
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
548
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
549
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell o...
An interview with Jon Krampner
56 min
550
A MAD, MAD, World
On Dr. Strangelove (1964), and Failsafe (1964)
54 min