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TV & Film
701
Thomas Doherty, "Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How...
An interview with Thomas Doherty
75 min
702
Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows...
An interview with Mike Miley
63 min
703
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Spea...
An interview with Courtenay Stallings
48 min
704
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movie...
An interview with Charles R. Acland
74 min
705
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
706
Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitc...
An interview with Dan Callahan
58 min
707
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
708
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
709
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
710
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
711
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
712
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
713
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
714
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
715
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
716
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
717
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
718
Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Mus...
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...
43 min
719
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
720
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
721
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
722
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
723
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
724
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
725
Chris Yogerst, "Hollywood Hates Hitler!: Jew-ba...
In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...
64 min