New Books in Film

Interviews with Scholars of Film about their New Books

TV & Film
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Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Spea...
An interview with Courtenay Stallings
48 min
627
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movie...
An interview with Charles R. Acland
74 min
628
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
629
Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitc...
An interview with Dan Callahan
58 min
630
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From ...
How are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves?
64 min
631
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
632
Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bl...
Harrison tells the story of the film’s production and reception, and analyses the film’s on-screen representations...
42 min
633
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contes...
Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker...
48 min
634
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native American...
Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency...
36 min
635
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion...
The authors offer is a multi-faceted and wide-ranging collection that examines cinematic representations of real-life horror...
46 min
636
Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier ...
Paosolini, a filmmaker who created art in a variety of media, has something approaching a cult following...
53 min
637
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A C...
Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice....
63 min
638
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and ...
Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....
45 min
639
Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Holly...
Glancy tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize...
65 min
640
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: G...
Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...
58 min
641
Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Mus...
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...
43 min
642
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequali...
This book combines quantitative data analysis with personal interviews to weave together the complicated picture of who the people behind some of our most cherished experiences are.
54 min
643
Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the T...
For seventeen years, Chris Fenton served as the president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a multi-billion-dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing...
47 min
644
Glenn Kenny, "Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas...
In the first ever behind-the-scenes story of Goodfellas, film critic Glenn Kenny chronicles the making and afterlife of the film that introduced America to the real modern gangster—brutal, ruthless...
58 min
645
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Pro...
In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute...
55 min
646
Joseph Clark, "News Parade: The American Newsre...
When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news...
67 min
647
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (...
Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances in neuroscience and related fields.
58 min
648
Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-ba...
In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...
64 min
649
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epi...
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....
65 min
650
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hol...
Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...
44 min