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TV & Film
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Debashree Mukherjee, "Bombay Hustle: Making Mov...
An interview with Debashree Mukherjee
40 min
652
J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Se...
46 min
653
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed...
An interview with Josh Lambert
45 min
654
Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist ...
An interview with Paola Bonifazio
56 min
655
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Dra...
An interview with Tavia Nyong’o
50 min
656
Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hiroka...
An interview with Linda C. Ehlrich
63 min
657
André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
An interview with André Gregory
50 min
658
Woojeong Joo, "Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Historie...
An interview with Woojeong Joo
63 min
659
Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How...
An interview with Thomas Doherty
75 min
660
Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows...
An interview with Mike Miley
63 min
661
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Spea...
An interview with Courtenay Stallings
48 min
662
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movie...
An interview with Charles R. Acland
74 min
663
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
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Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitc...
An interview with Dan Callahan
58 min
665
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
666
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
667
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
668
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
669
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
670
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
671
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
672
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
673
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
674
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
675
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