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Film
Interviews with film makers and scholars of film about their new books.
May 6, 2026
Dangerous Creations
Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France (U Toronto Press, 2025) presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle F…
May 6, 2026
Frontier Films for America250
Here in Episode 7 of Season 5, I interview Dr. Matthew J. Franck. A senior contributing fellow at Public Discourse, a visiting lecturer in the Departm…
May 5, 2026
Analogue Africa
Jeremy Harding has long been one of the premier essayists and journalists of our day. Elegant, committed and free of cant, Harding's writing has often…
May 2, 2026
In the Land of the Lacandón
In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón…
April 30, 2026
Through the Lens of Taiwan
This podcast episode is hosted by Mart Tšernjuk, the Taiwan Coordinator at the University of Tartu Asia who is talking to Prof. Robert Chen, a leading…
April 27, 2026
Chinatown
“Forget it, Jake—it’s Chinatown.” This piece of advice is as famous as it is useless: Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will never be able to forget what h…
April 25, 2026
Cinematic Immunity
The unbelievable insider stories of how they “got the shot,” Cinematic Immunity tells the story of New York City's movie industry from the crew member…
April 25, 2026
It's Only Forever
Jes Battis' new book, It's Only Forever. Labyrinth (ECW Press, 2026) is a wild, intimate, and political deep dive into Jim Henson’s 1986 classic starr…
April 23, 2026
Trans Cinema
Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come togeth…
April 22, 2026
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy (Duke University Press, 2026) re-examines cinema studies through the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, empl…
April 20, 2026
Archiving the Past
What happens when we assume women’s presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women’…
April 20, 2026
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship (Routledge, 2025) offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a …
April 19, 2026
Boom to Bust
Boom to Bust is a timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood work. When Hollywood w…
April 17, 2026
The Shawshank Redemption in China
How can an entirely foreign cast perform the American “The Shawshank Redemption” in the Chinese language across China? In this episode of the Nordic A…
April 13, 2026
Queer Indigenous Cinemas
In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbean…
April 13, 2026
Get Shorty
Hollywood loves making movies about itself: on this show alone, we’ve done Sunset Boulevard, Sullivan’s Travels, and Singin’ in the Rain. Get Shorty (…
April 7, 2026
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
In Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2025), Leslie Barnes examines the ambivalences that mark So…
April 4, 2026
Race on Screen
What is the role of television in the history of the UK? In Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain (Cambridge UP, 2026) Christin…
April 1, 2026
Michael Mann Reconsidered
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and in this show we conclude our series on the films of Michael Mann. Structured as a knock-out tournament, we have…
March 29, 2026
Cinema before the World
Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers (Fordham UP, 2026) investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing…