New Books in Film
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: T...
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
61 min
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Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
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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?
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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
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Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indones...
Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...
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Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popu...
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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