New Books in Film
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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...
36 min
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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.
64 min
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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?
39 min
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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?
54 min
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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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Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popu...
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?
65 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...
43 min
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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...
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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