New Books in Film

Interviews with Scholars of Film about their New Books

TV & Film
626
Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Liv...
Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...
32 min
627
Robert Pippin, "Filmed Thought: Cinema as Refle...
Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers...
98 min
628
Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentar...
Wilkman offers a a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed,,,
68 min
629
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
630
Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Repres...
Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...
63 min
631
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
632
Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the F...
“In the game of thrones you either win or you die."
87 min
633
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
634
Kunio Hara, "Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My N...
Hara explores the collaboration between Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao, the film’s creator and director...
54 min
635
Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories...
Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...
54 min
636
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Polit...
Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...
55 min
637
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinem...
O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...
50 min
638
Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics...
Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...
49 min
639
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
640
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
641
Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women ...
What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?
28 min
642
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrop...
Cazenave offers a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar...
59 min
643
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: In...
Dyson is not only analyzing the tropes and themes of these series, but he is braiding them together with broader disciplinary frameworks and concepts from political science...
42 min
644
Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, ...
In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.
64 min
645
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: T...
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
61 min
646
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
647
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
648
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Surve...
As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...
28 min
649
Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popu...
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?
65 min
650
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indones...
Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...
43 min