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Film
Interviews with film makers and scholars of film about their new books.
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 …
July 30, 2026
The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman has a new book out that focuses on the reality of women running for president in the United States, and the fictional repre…
July 27, 2026
Understanding Social Images
In this episode I discuss the book Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology (Berghahn, 2025) with co-editors Da…
July 19, 2026
Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001
In Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001 (Bloomsbury, 2024), Anja Foerschner offers a compelling exploration of the women artists, curators, …
July 15, 2026
Suicide in Popular Media and Culture
NB: This episode contains a discussion of suicide and may not be appropriate for all listeners. If you are thinking about hurting yourself, help is al…
July 15, 2026
Glasses
Glasses are among the oldest and most commonplace prosthetics we have invented. But what does it mean to wear glasses? There is more to the answer tha…
July 14, 2026
Technothriller
Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT Press, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” tha…
July 6, 2026
Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption
Today’s guest, Krzysztof Rowiński, is the author of Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film (Routledge, 2026). Thi…
July 4, 2026
Chai Noon
Only a few Westerns contain explicitly Jewish stories or themes, and very rarely do Old West tales involve identifiably Jewish characters. Yet Jewish …
June 30, 2026
Doom Town, USA
In March 1953 and May 1955, government officials—including the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), the US Department of Defense, and the Atom…
June 22, 2026
Grizzly Man
Tennyson called nature “red in tooth and claw,” but that warning didn’t keep Timothy Treadwell from living among the grizzlies of Alaska for thirteen …
June 21, 2026
Jim
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the firs…
June 15, 2026
Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen has called A Streetcar Named Desire the most well-directed film ever made and its influence on Blue Jasmine (2013) is unmistakable. Both …
June 9, 2026
The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema
How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment. Drawing on sound studies and performance…
June 6, 2026
Acts of Love
In 1898, vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown joyously embraced in a short silent film titled Something Good—Negro Kiss. The first known …
June 1, 2026
Masters of the Universe
Mackenzi Lee's Masters of the Universe: Teela: Daughter of Eternos (Mattel, 2026) is a young adult tie-in for the Masters of the Universe (2026) film.…
May 29, 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue…
May 25, 2026
Archie Bunker for President
Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Thi…
May 22, 2026
A Century of Hitchcock
For over a century, Alfred Hitchcock has remained one of cinema's most influential directors. Known as the Master of Suspense, this visionary filmmake…
May 20, 2026
Rebooting Inequality
From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with reboo…