New Books in Film

Interviews with Scholars of Film about their New Books

TV & Film
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Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Huma...
Past studies a complex of issues surrounding on-location films made in Italy and the way their production leaves lasting, material traces on the environment...
62 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black F...
"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...
44 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: ...
Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...
56 min
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Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
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Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility...
Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...
57 min
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Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
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Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic...
The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...
57 min
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David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film:...
Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...
50 min
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Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: D...
Steir-Livny analyzes 19 prominent films that reflect the key tendencies of third-generation Holocaust documentaries...
42 min
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Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives ...
Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...
91 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
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Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Sov...
Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones...
84 min
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Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and Nati...
German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights...
56 min
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Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Com...
The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...
49 min
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Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of N...
Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...
64 min
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Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, ...
McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...
56 min
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Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Co...
Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...
60 min
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Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical...
Golding examines the current status of Star Wars, as well as the similarities and differences between the old and the new...
72 min
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Nicholas Baer et al. "Unwatchable" (Rutgers UP,...
We all have images that we find unwatchable...
58 min
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Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge, "The Un...
The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...
64 min
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Michael Benson, "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick...
Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey...
35 min
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Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and ...
Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...
55 min
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Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black I...
Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...
43 min