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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
1002
Arlene Davila, "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, a...
Davila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists....
57 min
1003
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity an...
From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia highlight the complexity of minority self-representation...
25 min
1004
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Pu...
Mattson documents punk rock in the early 1980s through a comprehensive look into the music, zines, films, bands, and punk Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tactics...
63 min
1005
Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Per...
What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over?
85 min
1006
Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Per...
Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world...
47 min
1007
Megan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy End...
Sandberg-Zakian makes a powerful case for “militant optimism” in an age of chaos...
67 min
1008
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Mus...
Lordi takes on the challenge of explaining “soul,” through a book that zooms in and out between sweeping ideas about suffering and resilience in Black culture and fine-grained, close readings of individual performances by soul musicians...
51 min
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Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and ...
Hoffman explores the ways that race and racism have shaped the American musical from Show Boat to Hamilton....
53 min
1010
Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and ...
Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...
53 min
1011
Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation ...
Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...
60 min
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Neil Shister, "Radical Ritual: How Burning Man ...
Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is postmodern, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry...
58 min
1013
Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the...
Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...
57 min
1014
Robert Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aris...
Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,..
47 min
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Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface...
Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”
74 min
1016
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
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Ahalya Satkunaratnam, "Moving Bodies, Navigatin...
How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?
42 min
1018
Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Mus...
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...
43 min
1019
Joel Miller, "Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I ma...
Joel Miller recounts his time in the early 2000s as a road for Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, Poison, and The Cranberries...
59 min
1020
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
1021
William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perc...
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?
62 min
1022
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citiz...
Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..
49 min
1023
Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Man...
Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...
58 min
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Fabian Holt, "Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theo...
Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades...
57 min
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Karen Quigley, "Performing the Unstageable: Suc...
From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas...
40 min