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Film
Interviews with film makers and scholars of film about their new books.
October 18, 2026
Action Bodies
Exploring how digital visual effects have changed the representations of the body and identity in action films. When Harrison Ford appeared digitally …
October 17, 2026
Reading for Pleasure
Lise Shapiro Sanders is the author of Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early 20c Britain, published in October 2026 by B…
October 6, 2026
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era
Samar Abdel-Rahman's Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity (American University of Cairo Press, 2026) explores m…
October 5, 2026
Weapons
A true dark comedy, Zach Cregger’s Weapons (2025) combines a satire of suburbia, a study of addiction, and the satisfaction of a fairy tale. The film …
September 27, 2026
Wastelands and Wonderlands
Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026) is an edited collection exploring uto…
September 26, 2026
Power Surge
Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its…
September 17, 2026
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives Through Beckett and Artaud
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives Through Beckett and Artaud: The Trauma of the Body (Routledge, 2026) provides an epistemology of the body as it r…
September 8, 2026
Remembering Roots
As we approach the 50th anniversaries of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots (1976) and its landmark television adaptation (1977), journal…
September 7, 2026
Data-Driven Hollywood
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also i…
September 3, 2026
Point Break
Stephen Lee Naish's Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute (Bloomsbury, 2026), in Bloomsbury's Timecodes Series, is a detailed, minute-by-minute critica…
September 1, 2026
Your Fellow Americans
Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a h…
August 31, 2026
Los Angeles and Film
It is impossible to talk about the City of Angels without talking about its movie business. The history of American cinema is so intertwined with Los …
August 31, 2026
Dog Day Afternoon
A comedy of frustration and a look at how the media takes and then takes back one’s fifteen minutes of fame, Dog Day Afternoon (1975) is on of Sidney…
August 30, 2026
Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century
Taiwanese cinema is internationally celebrated for the auteurs of the Taiwan New Cinema. Yet over the past fifteen years, ghosts, demons, curses and h…
August 26, 2026
George Lucas
The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George Lucas. On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent scien…
August 21, 2026
Mulholland Drive at 25
In this episode, J. M. Tyree, the editor of Film Quarterly discusses a dossier of articles about David’s Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive on its 25th ann…
August 18, 2026
Next Time on Dragon Ball
Since its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular, influential, and lucrative media franchises in the world. In Next Time on Dra…
August 17, 2026
Tár
Tod Field’s Tár (2022) is one of the best ghost stories we’ve discussed on the show. The story of a troiubled genius, the film is also a wonderfully …
August 14, 2026
Melodrama As Provocateur
The centerpiece of Melodrama as Provocateur (Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhet…
August 3, 2026
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The War of the Worlds
In light of the dismal Disclosure Day (2026), we return to two films that show Spielberg tackling alien visitation (or invasion) stories while at the …