New Books in Film
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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
802
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
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Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisens...
What goes into producing a work of historical fiction—especially in a dictatorship where the wrong choice, or even the right choice at the wrong moment, can send the unwitting author to the Gulag?
52 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and ...
In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....
67 min
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Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhe...
Phillips explores the emergence of the horror film genre before it was horror and a post-Civil War national American identity...
53 min
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Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press, 2018)
66 min
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Nathan Holmes, "Welcome to Fear City: Crime Fil...
The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics and history...
22 min
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Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexual...
A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is that of haunting by a female ghost...
40 min
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Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: Th...
What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex?
60 min
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Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastw...
When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...
63 min
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David LaRocca, "The Philosophy of War Films" (U...
Films that feature war as a theme have been made almost since the beginning of the industry...
56 min
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Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of ...
While most every live-action film takes place in a specific location, the role of these places has not often been studied...
62 min
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Tison Pugh, "The Queer Fantasies of the America...
Perhaps no form of popular art has appeared as poised to resist subversive sexual themes as the television situation comedy...
53 min
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Annabel Cooper, "Filming the Colonial Past: The...
Annabel Cooper, an Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Otago, explores how filmmakers have portrayed the New Zealand wars of the 19th century and how those productions serve as a snapshot of the complex cultural moment of their creation....
15 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout Ameri...
One of the major aspects of the end of the Cold War has been the discovery and release of records related to many government activities from the period...
58 min