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Film
Interviews with film makers and scholars of film about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Millennial Jewish Stars
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi…
July 26, 2024
Pop Islam
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new book …
July 25, 2024
40 Years of Purple Rain
It’s the UConn Popcast, and Purple Rain, Prince’s semi-autobiographical, semi-concert film, hit cinemas 40 years ago this week. The movie followed the…
July 25, 2024
Love Me Fierce In Danger
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures i…
July 23, 2024
British Cinema
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Bri…
July 22, 2024
The Graduate
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles.” So begins The Graduate (1967), which everyone loves but which many of us …
July 19, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co…
July 17, 2024
Revolutionary Becomings
Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia University professor Ying Qian about her new book, Re…
July 16, 2024
Inland Empire
"A woman in trouble" In her monograph Inland Empire (Fireflies Press, 2021), film critic Melissa Anderson explores meaning (or the impossibility ther…
July 15, 2024
Auto Focus
A great movie that is very difficult movie to recommend because of its subject matter, Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus (2002), the story of TV-star Bob Cra…
July 14, 2024
The Red Shoes
Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorate…
July 13, 2024
New Israeli Horror
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next…
July 12, 2024
I Spit on Your Celluloid
I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies (Headpress, 2024) by Heidi Honeycutt is the first book-length history of female…
July 10, 2024
Performing Chinatown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of …
July 8, 2024
Manhunter
Anthony Hopkins has defined the popular conception of Hannibal Lector and, by extension, the erudite serial killer. But before The Silence of the Lam…
July 7, 2024
Rated A
In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema…
July 5, 2024
Becoming the Ex-Wife
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life ba…
July 2, 2024
Asians on Demand
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary queer…
July 1, 2024
Forbidden Planet
A dramatized thought experiment like best episodes of Star Trek, Forbidden Planet (1956) is a wonderful reminder of how people in the past envisioned …
June 29, 2024
Networked Bollywood
Swapnil Rai’s book Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema (Cambridge UP, 2024) brilliantly navigates the intricate landscapes of …